CNC Archive

  • The Shortest Day is December 21, 2011!

    The Shortest Day is December 21, 2011!

    The Shortest Day is the name of the first Short Film Festival, launched by the French National Centre for Cinema and the Animated Image (Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, CNC). The festival will take place on December 21, 2011 – winter solstice, the longest night of the year, and therefore, the year’s shortest [...]

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  • Three French Internet sites referencing legal movie offers

    Three French Internet sites referencing legal movie offers

    We can assure you that “Watching movies free on the Internet without pirating? It’s possible!” We’d like now to present three new sites that have the backing of CNC. With Cinestore, Vodkaster and Voirunfilm, users today can check the availability of French and European movies not only on VOD (video-on-demand), but in cinemas, on television [...]

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  • Interview: Cinema censorship in France

    Interview: Cinema censorship in France

    Interview with Pierre Chaintreuil, Service manager – cinema board – license and classification department at the CNC (Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée): 1) How is France positioned compared with other countries with similar classification systems? It would appear to be more “liberal” than the Anglo-Saxon countries, for example. A raw comparison of the [...]

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  • Film France, The French Film Commission.

    Film France, The French Film Commission.

    Interview with Patrick Lamassoure , Managing director - Film France, The French Film Commission: 1) France has always been in demand for its incredible number of natural settings and its artists and technicians, but it also has a reputation for being an expensive place for movie making. Is this always true? Because [...]

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