PRESENTATION LA FABRIQUE CINEMA DE L INSTITUT FRANCAIS 2018 AT THE FESTIVAL DE CANNES : 10 YEARS! La Fabrique Cinéma de l Institut français has been designed to support new talented filmmakers from Southern and emerging countries. This programme has been developed in close association with the Festival de Cannes and the Marché du Film. Ten projects in development (1st or 2nd feature film) are selected and invited to Cannes. The aim is to create concrete opportunities for these projects by providing access to different activities and personalized support through one-toone and group meetings with key players in the film industry. An international call for entries limited to 120 projects is launched every year. The applications are evaluated by a selection committee made up of script consultants, festival programmers and members of international cultural organisations. The selected directors are invited with their producers for a maximum of ten days during the Festival de Cannes to participate in an intensive and personalized coaching. This programme is meant to help their projects through individual meetings with French and international producers and group meetings, in partnership with the Festival de Cannes and the parallel selections. They also benefit from the strong commitment of the patron of La Fabrique Cinéma de l Institut français. La Fabrique Cinéma de l Institut français will celebrate its 10th edition in 2018. Key figures! In 2017, the directors and producers have participated in: 3 working sessions with Brillante Mendoza, patron 2017 1 pitching workshops and 1 masterclass from a famous film music composer 26 group meetings with the key players of the industry (heads of funds, festivals, distributors, sales agents, heads of international organisations ) 2 professional lunches with international sales agents, heads of coproduction markets and international funds 200 one to one meetings with French, European and international producers and sales agents Since 2009, 81 projects, 148 directors and producers coming from 56 countries, including 21 francophone countries, have been selected. Since 2012, 70% of the projects have signed coproduction agreements and 20% of the projects have already been shot and selected in great festivals or released in theatres.
In 2016, 5 films have been noticed in the film circuit and 3 films have been released in France early 2017: Kill-me Please by Anita Rocha da Silveira (Brazil/La Fabrique 2012) The Wound by John Trengove (South Africa/La Fabrique 2014) The Road to Mandalay by Midi Z. (Myanmar-Taiwan/La Fabrique 2012) For the first time in 2017, 2 films have been selected at the Festival de Cannes : Un Certain Regard : Beauty and the Dogs by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia) La Fabrique 2015 Semaine de la Critique : La Familia by Gustavo Rondón Córdova (Venezuela) La Fabrique 2014 Many former participants of La Fabrique were also attending the Festival de Cannes this year with a short, long feature film or a new project through various selections and programs. Follow us on our Facebook page /follow the news on our website Partnerships with festivals, labs and residencies For many years, La Fabrique Cinéma de l Institut français has collaborated to initiatives that support projects in development: Atelier Grand Nord, French-speaking script residency, by SODEC (Quebec), Réunion Tout en Auteur, French-speaking script residency, by Agence Film Réunion, Realness, Pan-African screenwriters residency, based in South Africa, by Urucu Media, Ouaga Film Lab, coproduction platform and workshop for West Africa, by Génération Films, Pitchs Animation du Monde, pitching sessions and workshops, by MIFA in Annecy. A special attention is given to French-language projects from Africa. New collaboration with Vision du Réel This year, as part of a new collaboration between Visions du Réel and La Fabrique Cinéma de l Institut français, the Serbian documentary projects, which are being submitted to either the «Focus Serbia Visions du Réel 2018» or «La Fabrique Cinéma de l Institut français 2018» will be evaluated by both programmes and may be selected by both of them as well, without obligation on any side, in order to circulate the projects between Visions du Réel 2018 and La Fabrique Cinéma de l Institut français in Cannes in 2018. Thus, a Serbian documentary project submitted to La Fabrique may be selected by Visions du Réel for its Focus Serbia 2018, and a project that will be pitched at Visions du Réel may be invited to the Festival de Cannes 2018 to participate in La Fabrique (more details on Vision du Réel).
SELECTION CRITERIA Please note that you must provide the following information to be eligible for the selection process. Please read each question carefully as you will be unable to navigate between sections, except by consulting the pop-up menu. You must fill in each field correctly and upload the mandatory documents before validating the registration form. 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 Last name/ first name/ email/ phone and country of the producer from one of the eligible countries Name of the co-producer(s) (if applicable) Film title in original language and English Language of the project Film genre Film summary (40 words maximum) Synopsis (1page maximum) Project status and reasons for participating in La Fabrique Cinéma de l Institut français (2 pages maximum) Estimated production schedule Estimated budget Links to previous works of the director Mandatory documents (in French or English) Treatment (20 pages maximum) Script Director s statement (2 pages maximum) Financing plan Director s CV and filmography Producer s CV and filmography Photo of the director (300 dpi high resolution) Optional documents (in French or English) Detailed production schedule Detailed budget Project stills (300 dpi high resolution) Production company profile If there is no film of the director available online, 3 DVDs must be sent by post to: Gabrielle Béroff-Gallard Institut Français Département Cinéma 8-14, rue du Capitaine Scott 75015 Paris France Please note that if links to previous films made by the director are available online, we don t need to receive DVDs.
LIST OF ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES Mainly based on the DAC (Development Assistance Committee) list (OECD) of assistance recipients AFGHANISTAN ALBANIA ALGERIA ANGOLA ANGUILLA ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA ARGENTINA ARMENIA AZERBAIDJAN BANGLADESH BELARUS BELIZE BENIN BHUTAN BOLIVIA BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BOTSWANA BRAZIL BURKINA FASO BURUNDI CAMBODIA CAMEROON CAPE VERDE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CHAD CHILE CHINA COLOMBIA COMOROS CONGO (Brazzaville) CONGO (Democratic Republic of) COOK (Islands) COSTA RICA COTE D IVOIRE CUBA DJIBOUTI DOMINICA DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EAST TIMOR ECUADOR EGYPT EL SALVADOR EQUATORIAL GUINEA ERITREA ETHIOPIA FIJI GABON GAMBIA GEORGIA GHANA GRENADA GUATEMALA GUINEA Bissau GUINEA Conakry GUYANA HAITI HONDURAS INDIA INDONESIA IRAN IRAQ JAMAICA JORDAN KAZAKHSTAN KENYA KIRIBATI KOREA (Democratic People s Republic of) KOSOVO KYRGYZSTAN LAOS LEBANON LESOTHO LIBERIA LIBYA MACEDONIA (Former Yugoslav Republic of) MADAGASCAR MALAWI MALAYSIA MALDIVES MALI MARSHALL (Islands) MAURITANIA MAURITIUS MEXICO MICRONESIA (Federated states of) MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF MONGOLIA MONTENEGRO MONTSERRAT MOROCCO MOZAMBIQUE MYANMAR (BURMA) NAMIBIA NAURU NEPAL NICARAGUA NIGER NIGERIA NIUE PAKISTAN PALAU PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES PANAMA PAPUA NEW GUINEA PARAGUAY PERU PHILIPPINES RWANDA SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS SAINT LUCIA SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES SAMOA SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE SENEGAL SERBIA SEYCHELLES SIERRA LEONE SOLOMON ISLANDS SOMALIA SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH SUDAN SRI LANKA ST HELENA SUDAN SURINAME SWAZILAND SYRIA TAJIKISTAN TANZANIA THAILAND TOGO TOKELAU TONGA TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TUNISIA TURKEY TURKMENISTAN TUVALU UGANDA UKRAINE URUGUAY UZBEKISTAN VANUATU VENEZUELA VIETNAM WALLIS AND FUTUNA YEMEN ZAMBIA ZIMBABWE
RULES AND REGULATIONS All projects must be submitted using the online registration form on the Pavilion s website: http://www.lescinemasdumonde.com and the Institut français website www.institutfrancais.com. Please note that La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde s name has changed for La Fabrique cinéma de l Institut français. Selection criteria 1. The project must concern a cinematographic work (fiction, documentary or animation). It may not be a project or a film for television. 2. The project must be the director s first or second feature-length film (fiction, documentary or animation). 3. The director must come from one of the eligible countries. 4. The project must have a local producer or a producer from one of the eligible countries who has produced a short- or feature-length film in the last five years. 5. The film s budget must be less than 3 million. 6. Each director or production company may only submit one film project. 7. If the project has a co-producer, the co-producer must be identified in the online registration form. 8. If coproducers are attached to the project after the application has been made, the Institut français must be informed. 9. La Fabrique s program is mainly designed to find French and European coproducers. Therefore, priority will be given to projects that don t have French or European coproducers attached. 10. The local producer of the project is invited to attend La Fabrique Cinéma de l Institut français. The project s co-producers must have signed a co-production agreement or a deal memo for their status to be recognized. Their costs are not covered. To further the project s interests, they may attend the one-to-one meetings. 11. The director and the producer must speak English. 12. Application must be complete to be considered. 13. Projects are registered in order of arrival (in electronic form only). No documents or DVDs will be returned. 14. All projects must be registered and received before Wednesday, November 8th, 2017. A maximum of 120 projects will be accepted. Rules 1. Applicants may not pre-register.
2. There is no registration fee. 3. When the registration form has been completed, an email is automatically sent to the French Embassy s cultural services in the director/producer s home country. If the audiovisual attaché of the French Embassy agrees, applicants may request his/her assistance in sending DVDs, if links to previous films of the director are not available. If the films are available online, it is not necessary. 4. Selected projects will be chosen by a committee composed of professional readers from the film industry and representatives of the Institut Français and its institutional partners. 5. Selected projects will be announced on March 2018 by press release. It will then be published on the Pavillon Les Cinémas du Monde and Institut francais websites. 6. The director and local producer of a selected project will take part in La Fabrique Cinéma de l Institut français programme. The following conditions apply: a. The Institut Français, with support from French Embassy services, will cover the director s travel, accommodation, meal and accreditation costs during his/her invitation the Festival de Cannes. The maximum period that will be covered is from 8 to 18 May 2018. The exact dates of invitation will be announced later. Outside of these dates, the director must organise and pay for his/her own trip. b. The Institut Français, with support from French Embassy services, will cover the producer s travel, accommodation, meal and accreditation costs during his/her invitation to the Festival de Cannes. The maximum period that will be covered is from 8 to 18 May 2018. The exact dates of invitation will be announced later. Outside of these dates, the director must organise and pay for his/her own trip. 7. The directors and producers of projects selected must include the following information in the film s credits: This film took part in LA FABRIQUE CINEMA DE L INSTITUT FRANCAIS (+year) and the program s logo. 8. Participating in La Fabrique Cinéma de l Institut français does not mean the applicant is automatically eligible to the Aide aux cinémas du monde. Applications must be done separately. 9. Applicants must accept these rules and regulations when submitting their projects online. I hereby declare that I have read and accepted the rules and regulations for La Fabrique Cinéma de l Institut français 2018, in particular with respect to the project selection criteria and the conditions for welcoming directors and local producers of selected projects.
CONTACT DETAILS If you have any questions on the submission process, please contact Gabrielle Béroff-Gallard by email: info@lescinemasdumonde.com ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8th, 2017. If the director s previous works is available online, you don t need to send us Dvds. Si there s no film available online, 3 DVDs must be sent by post before November, 30th, 2017 to: Gabrielle Béroff-Gallard Chargée de mission La Fabrique Cinéma de l Institut français Département Cinéma Institut Français 8-14, rue du Capitaine Scott 75015 Paris France SELECTED PROJECTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN MARCH 2018 BY PRESS RELEASE. It will also be published on the Cinémas du Monde and Institut français websites and facebook pages.