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FUNDING France

A classic face-lift

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- In 2002, the CNC earmarked Euros325,000 for the restoration of past classics by, among others Tati, Leone and Kurosawa, and re-release them theatrically, with a new fund to be set up in June

Institutions – France The CNC (National Film Centre) presented its year-end report for 2002 for a fund set up for the restoration, reprinting and theatrical re-release of classic films. The fund will also encourage exhibitors to programme these classics by means of financial incentives to cover the cost of prints and promotional campaigns.
Some 20 films and retrospectives were restored and re-released during 2002 for a total budget of Euros325,000. The fortunate titles all the films of Jacques Tati and Andrei Tarkovski’s, Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Alain Resnais ‘ Je t’aime, je t’aime (Anatomy of a murder), by Alain Resnais, Jean Heustache’s Numéro Zero, as well as films by Kurosawa, Mankiewicz, Todd Browning, Nelly Kaplan and John Huston.
The selection committee is made up of two distributors, two exhibitors, one French Arthouse Cinema Association (AFCAE) member, one artistic director of a film festival and a film critic has already decided this year’s beneficiaries: they include Joseph Losey’s 1973 A Dolls’ House, awared Euros25,000.
As of June, the CNC will set aside an additional amount of money for those distributors who guarantee the theatrical release of between three to four restored films over a one-year period.

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(Translated from French)

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