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The aim is to create concrete opportunities for these projects by providing access to different activities and personalized support through one-to-one and group meetings with key players in the film industry.

Benefits

• From April to June 2024, filmmakers and producers from La Fabrique Cinéma benefited from an online program:
  • Personalized coaching.
  • Workshops: pitch, video pitch production, co-production, international sales.
  • Collective meetings with key players in the film industry.
  • Tailor-made individual consultations organized for projects 1 masterclass by director Philippe Lacôte, sponsor of La Fabrique Cinéma 2024, 1 working session and an individual meeting for each project.
  • Nearly 300 individual meetings with potential French, European and international partners throughout the program.
  • Meetings with French and international composers as part of Spot the Composer.
  • Access to the activities of the Producers Network of the Film Market.
  • Easy access to screenings of the official selection and parallel selections.
  • An official climb of the steps of La Fabrique Cinéma during the Cannes Film Festival.

Eligibility Criteria

• The project must be a cinematographic work (fiction, documentary or animation).
• It cannot be a project or film for television.
• The project must be a first or second feature film in development (fiction, documentary or animation).
• The director must come from the list of eligible countries (nationality of the country or living and working in the country for more than 5 years).
• The producer must come from the list of eligible countries (nationality of the country or living and  working in the country for more than 5 years) and have already produced a short film or a feature film in the last five years.
• The producer must have a production company based in his or her country of application.
• Each director and each producer may only present one project per year.
• The same project can only be submitted three times to La Fabrique.
• The La Fabrique Cinéma program promotes the search for French, European and international co-producers.
• It is not necessary to already have a co-producer to register.
• Priority will be given to projects that do not yet have co-producers or that have only one associated co-producer.
• If co-producers are associated with the project after the application has been submitted, candidates must inform the French Institute. Any significant change in the co-production structure must be reported to the French Institute, otherwise it may be selection questioned.
• The local producer of the project accompanies the director. The co-producers must have signed a co-production agreement or a memo-deal to be considered as such. They are not supported and are not invited to participate in the program.
• Due to the international context of the Cannes Film Festival Market, many appointments and meetings are held in English.
• It is imperative that the director and producer speak English.
• Files must be complete.
• The film’s estimated budget must be less than 3 million euros.

Application Requirements

• Please note that you will have to set up an account to apply on the new platform.
• You must fill in each field correctly and upload the mandatory documents before validating the registration form.
• Please be aware that you will have to use Latin alphabet to apply.
• Mandatory fields (in French or English)
  • Eligible country
  • Last name/ first name/ email/ phone and country of the director from one of the eligible countries
  • Company / Last name/ first name/ email/ phone and country of the producer from one of the eligible countries
  • Company /name/ email/ phone and country of the co-producer(s) (if applicable)
  • Film title in original language and English
  • Language of the project
  • Film genre
  • Film summary (1000 characters maximum)
  • Synopsis (4500 characters maximum)
  • Project status and reasons for participating in La Fabrique Cinéma de Institut français (3000 characters maximum)
  • Estimated production schedule
  • Estimated budget
  • Links to previous works of the director
• Mandatory documents (in French or English)
  • Treatment (15 pages maximum)
  • Script
  • Director’s statement (2 pages maximum)
  • Financing plan (see example available in pdf on the registration form).
  • Director’s CV and filmography
  • Producer’s CV and filmography
• Optional documents (in French or English)
  • Detailed production schedule
  • Detailed budget
  • Moodboard or project stills
  • Production company profile
  • Production Note
  • Other documents (additional documents, script in original version…)
  • Note of intent regarding the choice of implementing an eco-production.

For more information, visit Institut français.