Support for the production of dance films

• Associations
• Private companies

This system is aimed at professional only. 

The project leader must meet the following criteria:

• be a legal person (association, company, etc.): film production company, audiovisual production company, dance company, live performance production office, ...
• not having received support from a decentralized department of the Ministry of Culture for the same project
• present a film for public broadcast
• have sources of funding other than the Ministry of Culture grant

The carrier structure may be based abroad. In this case:

• his file must be written in French
• the film must include, if necessary, French subtitling
• the film must have at least one broadcast in France

The following are not eligible:

• natural persons
• recordings of shows or films forming an integral part of a scenic device, thus not constituting a work in its own right
• films whose distribution depends entirely on a room or an installation
• only film broadcasts: the project must concern the production of a film (writing, pre-production, shooting and post-production)

The scope of eligible expenses covers the entire field of the “production” of the film in its broadest sense: writing, pre-production, shooting, post-production (artistic, technical, logistical, administrative expenses, etc.).

Expenses must be:

• directly related to project implementation
• necessary to carry out the project
• reasonable under the principle of sound management
• generated during project delivery
• identifiable and controllable

Each project supported will receive a grant as close as possible to its need, within the limits of the appropriations allocated to this scheme.

As a guide, the aid previously paid was between €3,000 and €27,000.

The grant is paid at one time.

Successful applicants will be contacted by the Direction générale de la création artistique (DGCA) following the selection advisory committee.

A first pre-selection phase will be carried out by the Delegation to Dance.

The shortlisted applications will be presented to an advisory committee. This committee will consist of:

• Ministry of Culture Officer (Dance, Visual Arts)
• professionals in live entertainment, cinema and audiovisual (artists, producers, broadcasters, etc.)

Exchanges within the Committee shall be confidential and shall include:

• the artistic interest of the project
• the place and treatment of dance in the project
• the work of writing the image
• coherence and feasibility of the budget
• the relevance and feasibility of the proposed release

• File opening: January 30, 2023
• Application deadline: March 10, 2023, 11:59 pm (Paris time). No file may be filed or considered after this date.
• Selection Advisory Committee: May 11, 2023

The project balance sheet must be submitted no later than 1 year after the grant has been paid.

For more information on how to file your application, you are invited to contact DGCA at: filmsdedanse.dgca@culture.gouv.fr.

Entropico is a series of 5 short films of 17 minutes each directed by the choreographer Christophe Haleb (La Zouze CIE).

These films, like so many urban crossings, take us from island to island, from port city to archipelago, and make us listen to the youth of Havana, Marseille and Fort-de-France.

The 5 episodes are now available on La Zouze TV: https://lazouzetv.com/series/

They are fifteen young dancers from diverse backgrounds. They are on a dance tour Crowd, a play by Gisèle Vienne inspired by the raves of the 90s, on emotion and the perception of time.

Following them from theatre to theatre, If it was love, documents their work and their strange and intimate relationships. Because borders are blurred. The scene seems to contaminate life – unless it’s the other way around.

From a documentary on dance, the film directed by Patric Chiha (Aurora Film) makes a disturbing journey through our nights, our holidays, our loves. This film won the Teddy Award for best documentary at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/392480755

This 12-minute animated film by Laurent Goldring (Goldring Productions), a very free adaptation of Lewis Carroll, talks about body transformations and multiple identities. He uses a new technique of drawing in continuous creation projected on a performance. The body of Louise Lecavalier, who plays all the roles, becomes a drawing, and the drawing begins to dance, Jonathan Capdevielle who makes all the voices accompanies her live.

The film was presented at Usine C in Montreal in October 2021 and was selected for the 40th edition of FIFA in March 2022.

https://vimeo.com/543964774