Public financial support for the film industry's ecological transition

The CNC is the public body which regulates and supports the film industry in France. With an annual budget of 700 million euros, it runs approximately 150 funds. Among them, a selective subsidy, “le Soutien financier aux industries techniques”, finances companies which contribute to the quality of French film and video games creation through their technical services or equipments.
Funding is project-based and must allow the company to stay competitive and innovate through investments in new technologies or equipments. To that aim, a commission of independent experts and professionals decides if the CNC should finance a given percentage of the eligible spendings (studies, investments, training, human resources, communication etc.) necessary to the project.
The applicants are for instance post-production companies willing to improve their production pipeline, films studios which would like to invest in a cyclorama or a light provider in search of new innovative lights to rent to film crews.

In 2014, the CNC decided to add to the existing eligible spendings two green investments in order to encourage companies to become more ecological in the way they work or the products or services they offer. Environmental audits and environmental investments are now financed up to an attractive rate (40-70%) as long as the commission agrees the investment is efficient and useful to reduce carbon emissions and protect the environment.