For all
your filming projects (shorts, features, television, advertising,
documentaries), each local film commission (also known as a film
office), which is a member of the network of the National Film Commission
France, provides free assistance
For trouble-free
shooting anywhere in France.
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Essential information and contacts.
- Film permit information
- Technical services
- Customs
- Employing staff
- Tax law
In December 2008, the French Parliament enacted a law creating a new credit
for foreign productions shot in France. The law is designed to promote actual
film production as well as post-production services of movies whose “dramatic
content” has links with the “culture, heritage or territory of
France”, to quote the text of the law.
Your guide to the French Movie Production Support System:
- Qualifying to the French system
- Fundings availabe for qualified co-productions
- Selective supports for foreign cinema,
- Five years of minority French coproductions : 185 foreign movies
- Film France, the French Film Commission
- Industry directories, institutions and organizations