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This chapter examines how the Aide aux cinemas du monde fund and the Produire au Sud workshop aim at strengthening France’s central position in the co-production of world cinemas. The Aide aux cinemas du monde provides funding to French co-producers of films from all over the world, while the Produire au Sud workshop, linked to the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes, works towards developing cooperation between European film professionals and emerging filmmakers from the South. Drawing on an analysis of film policy documents and data, field observation and recent film festival studies, this chapter investigates how both initiatives support co-production, in parallel to developing and exporting professional practices and discourses that shape the co-production culture developed in France since the 1980s.
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By default, films co-produced under this framework must be deemed “European”, a condition calculated through a system of points measuring the “European elements” according to artistic and technical criteria. Nevertheless, a work that does not reach the required number of points (15 out of 19) can still be admitted to the regime of official European co-production on a discretionary basis if it is able to demonstrate “European identity”, even if the aesthetic, ideological and thematic qualities that constitute European identity are not specified.
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After the closing of the ECO Fund in 1997, projects from Central and Eastern Europe also fell within the scope of the FSC. This fund was set up in 1989 to support co-production with this region.
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My translation. Unless otherwise indicated, all translations are mine.
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ACM Distribution was initially intended for films that were supported by the Aide aux cinemas du monde at production stage, but from December 2017 it is open to all co-productions between a European and a non-European country. In the first two years of its existence, the main category of beneficiaries has been French sales agents.
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These observations were carried out in the context of the Scholar-in-Residence Programme jointly coordinated by the Festival des 3 Continents, the University of Nantes, and the Co-production Research Network.
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Two projects presented at PAS in 2011 have been granted financial support from ACM: Above The Clouds (Pepe Diokno, Philippines/France, 2014) and a project from Thailand, in production by the time this article is written, Kraben Rahu ( Diable de Mer ), by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng. Both have been co-produced in France by Les films de l’étranger, the company of Philippe Avril, who has been an instructor at PAS.
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Vinuela, A. (2018). Exporting the French Co-production Model: Aide aux cinémas du monde and Produire au Sud. In: Hammett-Jamart, J., Mitric, P., Novrup Redvall, E. (eds) European Film and Television Co-production. Palgrave European Film and Media Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97157-5_13
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