By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 19, 2020 4:00 pm EST
The slow restarting of production is possible due to the French government’s recent launch of a temporary indemnity fund created by the National Film Board (CNC) in collaboration with the regions and private partners, including banks, loan institutions and insurers. Not many details available about the fund, but culture minister Franck Riester said on May 6 that the fund will exceed €50 million ($54 million) and will be extended to film and TV productions that were halted during the pandemic. France’s health minister is also expected to greenlight sanitary guidelines for filming during the pandemic.
French films will also resume shooting in June, with two big-budget movies from Pathé, the period drama Eiffel starring Sex Education star Emma Mackey, and the World War II drama Adieu Monsieur Haffmann set to shoot in Paris.
France joins New Zealand and the Czech Republic as the latest country to cautiously resume shooting amid the pandemic. This helps Hollywood productions that are shot overseas, but it seems that domestically-shot films are still a ways away from resuming.
