The automatic support bonus : how does it work ?

This bonus can be solicited by the producer as a way to mobilise support when the composition of the chief managers’ team is gender-balanced, according to the following bonus criteria : 

For cinematographic works belonging to the fiction genre, points are distributed as follows :

– Legal representatives of the production company : 1 point

– Directors : 2 points

– Authors/Screenwriters : 1 point

– Production Managers : 1 point

– Directors of Photography : 1 point

– Chief sound operators : 1 point

– Costume or Chief designers : 1 point

– Chief decorators or Set decorators : 1 point

– Master image editors : 1 point

For cinematographic works belonging to the animation genre, points are distributed as follows :

– Legal representatives of the production company : 1 point

– Directors : 2 points

– Authors/Screenwriters : 1 point

– Graphic authors : 1 point

– Production Managers : 1 point

– Storyboard Directors : 1 point

– Chief/Head decorators : 1 point

– Animation Directors/Managers : 1 point

– Digital assembling Directors : 1 point

For cinematographic works belonging to the documentary genre, points are distributed as follows :

– Legal representatives of the production company : 1 point

– Directors : 2 points

– Authors/Screenwriters : 1 point

– Production Managers : 1 point

– Directors of Photography : 1 point

– Chief sound operators : 1 point

– Chief image editors : 1 point 

The production obtains the bonus when it reaches half of the points. 

Result ? A considerable leverage effect

• In 2018
15% of films would have been eligible for the bonus

• In 2019
22% of films received the bonus

• In 2020
34% of films received the bonus