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FUNDING France

The CNC autumn grants

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A new series of financial awards has been agreed by the Centre National de la Cinématographie, following its meetings held in September and October. As far as production is concerned, the committee looking at the box office advances, for the making of second works, has decided to fund 8 additional feature length films, bringing the total number of films being given funding to 33 this year. Those chosen include Clean by Olivier Assayas (Rectangle productions), Volem rien foutre al païs by Pierre Carles, Christophe Coello and Stéphane Goxe (CP Productions), Flandres by Bruno Dumont (3B Productions), Va, vis et deviens by Radu Mihaileanu (Elzevir Films), Code 68 by Jean-Henri Roger (Agat Films & Cie), Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé by Stéphane Brizé (TS Productions), Voici venu le temps by Alain Guiraudie (L.F.P.) and Chaque année en avril by Raoul Peck. These directors are joining a 2003 list which already features great names like Arthur Joffé, Cédric Kahn, Raoul Ruiz, Patricia Mazuy, François Dupeyron and Arnaud Desplechin.
The commission for the selective help towards distribution has chosen 4 news films to be given funding to increase their diffusion in cinemas, worth a total of €84,00: there’s €30,000 for Mille mois by Faouzi Bensaidi (MK2), €22,000 and three prints of No pasaran by Henri François Imbert (Shellac), €15,000 for Juifs et Arabes by Samir (Eurozoom) and €17,000 for Histoire d'un secret by Mariana Otero (ID Distribution).
But the director general of the CNC, David Kessler, hasn’t forgotten the great classics, and there’s an award for €28,885 for the distribution of Medea by Pier-Paolo Pasolini (C.I.P.A), €2,391 for Magic Donkey by Jacques Demy (Cinétamaris), €1,490 for the animation film by Paul Grimault, The King and the Mockingbird (Gebeka Films), €8,971 for Une heure près de toi by Ernst Lubitsch (Les grands films classiques) and €35,00 for a retrospective dedicated to Fritz Lang (Films sans frontières).

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(Translated from French)

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