Subsection 5: Award criteria

Grants are awarded on the basis of :
1° The heritage and cultural interest of the cinematographic works, assessed in particular with regard to their form, aesthetics, artistic quality, impact on society, the artistic movement to which they belong or their rarity;
2° The testimony that these works, through their dramatic content, their production or the talents and artistic collaborations that they bring together, represent for French and European culture and heritage;
3° The commitment made by the applicant to promote the distribution and support of the works, during the period of ownership of the exploitation rights, to ensure the widest possible access to the public, as well as, for the same period, their distribution within the framework of the screenings mentioned in 3° and 4° of article L. 214-1 du code du cinéma et de l'image animée;<br/>4° The commitment made by the applicant to promote, under normal market conditions, access to the digital files it owns for any other holder of exploitation rights to the same works;
5° The artistic ambition of the restoration, assessed in particular with regard to the resources deployed and the use of technical expertise;
6° The physical condition of the material and the degree of urgency of digitisation and restoration for conservation purposes, particularly in the light of any previous restoration work;
7° The existence and scope of the accompanying musical project, in the case of silent films;
8° The quality of the technical solutions for restoration and digitisation;
9° The relevance of the costs presented in relation to the artistic project, the restoration work required, the technical solutions for digitisation and the attention paid to long-term conservation solutions;
10° The creation of a digital subtitling file for deaf or hard of hearing people and a digital audio description file for blind or partially sighted people;
11° The project's financing plan;
12° The uncertain nature of the prospects for commercial exploitation given the costs involved.