Resumen de France: : Changes in support for production of documentaries
The Centre National du Cinéma (national cinema centre - CNC) has announced changes in support of the production of documentaries (audiovisual support fund, COSIP), which has remained unchanged since 2004. In recent years, the CNC has substantially increased its support for such productions, which remain the leading audiovisual genre receiving support. The changes are the result of the consultation carried out in collaboration with professionals in the sector, which began in mid-2012 after the report entitled Le Documentaire dans Tous ses États had been submitted to the Minister for Culture. The report pointed to those areas that posed a threat to diversity in the creation of documentaries. It proposed that the industry should agree on a table of objective criteria for a closer appreciation of the different types of writing and that the debate on defining what constituted a �creative documentary� should not be re-opened. At present, the support generated by a work, in proportion to its duration, is linked to a weighting which changes for each level of capital investment in the programme on the part of the broadcasters.
