With Culturesfrance and Unifrance, the Cultural Service is promoting French Cinema in festivals, cultural centers or universities campuses. In the US Southeast festivals which recently benefited from our support are: The International Black Film Festival of Nashville, The Atlanta Film Festival, The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, The Festival Francofilm, and The Jewish Cinema South. Besides, the Tournées program is present on campus of various universities.

CINÉ2000
Ciné2000 is an initiative to foster interest in French cinema among future American film professionals. It is available to film departments at universities in the U.S. and film institutions. The program will offer partial or complete support of activities in the field of French cinema such as guest lectures or master classes by French film professionals (directors, cinematographers, editors, composers, animators, producers, critics, etc.). The program is designed to compliment the institution’s existing activities and curricula. Ciné2000 offers a wide range of possible partnerships with French universities and institutions.

TOURNEES
The program “Tournées Festival”, a program of FACE, is designed to help bring contemporary French cinema to college or university campus. The Tournées Festival was conceived to encourage schools to begin their own self-sustaining French film festivals. Since its inception, the program has partnered with hundreds of universities and made it possible for more than 300,000 students to discover French-language films. The Tournées Festival distributes approximately $140,000 in grants annually thanks to the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the National Center of Cinematography, the Grand Marnier Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation and the French-American Cultural Fund (SACEM, the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America et the Motion Picture Association).
Application deadlines: June 1, 2009 for those who wish to program films in the fall semester, and October 1, 2009 for those scheduling their films in the spring semester.

UNIVERSCINÉ
In collaboration with Le Meilleur du Cinéma Français company, the French Embassy is offering an Internet portal that enables k-12 schools, Universities and Cultural Institutions to access films online and to organize public screenings more easily accross the US. More than 60 feature-length films are available in the US, most of which figured among the most prominent French independent films in the last few years

OTHER RESSOURCES
Promoting French cinema throughout the world is one of the major goals of cultural politics of France abroad. It focuses on the diffusion of non commercial movies, and commercial diffusion with Unifrance. The Ministry acquired diffusion rights of 300 fiction movies (classic, new, long and short movies) and 3000 documentary movies from a large variety of topics, from politics to contemporary dance. Those movies are available on different formats (35mm, video, DVD), in French or with subtitles (English or Spanish), for festivals, film library and French or foreign cultural institutions.

Do you have a cinema project? Do you want to invite an actor or a movie director for a project or a lecture at your university? You can have the Cultural Service’s support. For more information, contact us. You can also consult Culturesfrance - Cinéma.