The Gan Foundation

Aid for DistributionAid for Creation

Gan and its networks

Shooting of MERCENARY, directed by 2014 award winner Sacha Wolff ONE WEEK AND A DAY directed by Asaph Polonsky, Distribution Prize winner, Cannes 2016

CORNELIUS, LE MENIER HURLANT directed by 2015 award winner Yann Le Quellec

The Gan Foundation for Cinema is one of the two foundations of the Groupama Group, one of France’s largest insurance companies and whose societal commitment has over many years been its support for artistic creation. The Foundation is strongly linked to the identity of the Gan company (one of three within the Groupama Group).

In 2017, the Foundation celebrates 30 years of engagement alongside cinema entrepreneurs, and numerous young talented individuals have emerged thanks to its support. Indeed, the Gan Foundation is one of the principal private partners in French cinema, one which accompanies creators right up to the distribution of their works, thanks to the Aid for Creation and Aid for Distribution, which are its principal missions.

Aid for Creation consists of yearly awards given to four feature-length films (first or second film projects) which are selected on the basis of their screenplays, and also the attribution of a Special Prize.

Each awarded film receives €53,000, of which €3,000 is for the director and €50,000 for the producer. This aid can be increased by a further €25,000 thanks to existing partnerships with Panavision Alga, specialized in the rental of filming equipment, and post-production company Mikros Image. Today, support from the Foundation is not only financial – it is also recognised as a mark of quality.

With its Aid for Distribution, the Foundation gives its support to various festivals, whether this be in the form of financial assistance, the organisation of professional meetings or the award of a prize for distribution (€20,000 for the French distributor of a film or project that has been honoured by the Foundation). It is within this framework that the Foundation is a partner of the Angers First Film Festival, the Cannes International Critics’ Week, and the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

Since 2014, the Foundation awards a Prize for Distribution: THE TRIBE by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, THE WAKHAN FRONT by Clément Cogitore, ONE WEEK AND A DAY by Asaph Polonsky, ADAMA by Simon Rouby, MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI by Claude Barras, and WHITE FANG by Alexandre Espigares.

Historically a provider of insurance services for company founders, small- and me-dium-sized businesses, and professionals, Gan is today an insurer for all “entrepre-neurs” in both their private and professional lives. Gan thus accompanies all those who, from project to project, regard life as an enterprise. It is therefore natural that Gan, via its Foundation, leads a programme of patronage in favour of cinematographic creation and accompanies those who are “cinema entrepreneurs”.

The Gan networks* enjoy the support of the Foundation and a catalogue of films for the organization of public relations events, in the form of film screenings.These cinema evenings represent unique opportunities to invite customers, partners, prospective clients, and also staff, amid a privileged environment that combines conviviality, pleasure and culture.

*Gan Assurances, Gan Patrimoine, Gan Prévoyance and Gan Eurocourtage Collectives

The Foundation celebrates its 30th anniversary!

In a few figures

Houda Benyamina, 2014 award winner, who received the Caméra d’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival for DIVINES MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI by Claude Barras, Distribution Prize winner, Annecy 2015

The Foundation was created by Gan in 1987 on the occasion of the 40th Cannes Film Festival. Costa-Gavras, then president of the Cinémathèque Française, provided the inspiration for the field of activity of what would be-come France’s leading company foundation dedicated to cinema, and he re-mains the Foundation’s honorary president.

Today, the Foundation’s action is recognised to be essential, as illustrated by the numerous awards it has received, which include, on three occasions, France’s Oscar du Mécénat (Oscar for Patronage) and, in 2007, the French culture ministry’s Grand Mécène Gold Medal for patronage.

In 2015, the Gan Foundation became a major patron of the Cinémathèque Française.

Special Awards

THE BEARS’ FAMOUS INVASION OF SICILY directed by Lorenzo Mattotti 2016 Special Award winner

In order to encourage exposure of the most diverse forms of cinema, the Foundation attributes Special Awards to projects whose creation demonstrates notable ambition and originality.

Among the 13 winners of the Foundation’s Special Awards are CAPTIVE OF THE DESERT by Raymond Depardon (1989), MICROCOSMOS by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou (1992), WINGED MIGRATION by Jacques Perrin (1999), PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi (2004), LONG WAY NORTH by Rémi Chayé (2013), THE RED TURTLE by Michael Dudok de Wit (2014), MISTER WU by Patrick Zachmann, and THE BEARS’ FAMOUS INVASION OF SICILY by Lorenzo Mattotti (2016).

Accompanying filmmakers

The scriptwriters taking part in LA SÉLECTION in 2016

The Foundation takes a long-term view of accompanying talent.

It hands the stage to its award-winners during the RETOUR D’EXPÉRIENCE presentation at the Angers First Film Festival, an event at which a director and producer are invited to recount the adventure of making their first film.

The Foundation also invites directors to present their film project to producers when they meet together during a unique yearly gathering in Paris called LA SÉLECTION, created in association with the residential scriptwriting centre Le Groupe Ouest.

Since 2016, France’s National Centre for Cinematography, the CNC, and French magazine Film français are partners of the event.

Since its creation, the Foundation: R has studied more than 4,600 screenplays,R and provided aid for more than 180 first-film projects, including 13

Special Prize winners, 27 films awarded at the French cinema indus-try’s yearly César ceremonies, 15 award winners at the Cannes Film Festival, and more than 300 award winners in France and abroad of which more than 40 were honoured in 2016 alone!

The Foundation is also proud to have supported the first films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro with DELICATESSEN, Bruno Dumont with THE LIFE OF JESUS, Mia Hansen-Løve with ALL IS FORGIVEN, Thomas Lilti with LES YEUX BANDÉS, Cyril Mennegun with LOUISE WIMMER, Alice Winocour with AUGUSTINE, Louis Garrel with TWO FRIENDS, and Houda Benyamina with DIVINES.

AWARDS 2016Benedikt ERLINGSSON - A Woman at War

Karim MOUSSAOUI - En attendant les hirondelles

David PERRAULT - L’État sauvage

Lorenzo MATTOTTI - The Bear’s Famous Invasion of Sicily / Special Award

AWARDS 2015Nicolás BUENAVENTURA - Kairos, le moment opportun

Hubert CHARUEL - Bloody Milk

Renaud FÉLY and Arnaud LOUVET- L’Ami, François d’Assise et ses frères

Yann LE QUELLEC - Cornelius le meunier hurlant

Annarita ZAMBRANO - Après la guerre

Patrick ZACHMANN - Mister Wu / Special Award

AWARDS 2014Houda BENYAMINA - Divines

Bogdan MIRICA - Dogs

Antonin PERETJATKO - La Loi de la jungle

Sacha WOLFF - Mercenaire

Michael DUDOK DE WIT - The Red Turtle / Special Award

AWARDS 2013Fejria DELIBA - D’une pierre deux coups

Sara FORESTIER - M

Louis GARREL - Les Deux amis

Elad KEIDAN - Afterthought (L’esprit de l’escalier)

Alireza KHATAMI - Les Versets de l’oubli

Laurent TEYSSIER - Toril

Rémi CHAYÉ - Tout en haut du monde / Special Award

AWARDS 2012Jean BRESCHAND - La Papesse Jeanne

Dyana GAYE - Des étoiles

Rachid HAMI - Les Moutons noirs

Franco LOLLI - Gente de bien

Hadar MORAG - Pourquoi m’as-tu abandonné ?

Fred NICOLAS - Max et Lenny

AWARDS 2011Paul CALORI and KOSTIA TESTUT - Sur quel pied danser ?

Marilyne CANTO - Le Sens de l’humour

Téona GRENADE - Notre enfance à Tbilissi

Fernando GUZZONI - Carne de perro

Sebastiàn SEPÙLVEDA - Les Sœurs Quispe

Alice WINOCOUR - Augustine

AWARDS 2010Massoud BAKHSHI - Une famille respectable

Alexandra GULEA - Matei

Saodat ISMAILOVA - 40 jours de silence

Jean-Jacques JAUFFRET - Après le Sud

Bani KHOSHNOUDI - Ziba

Ami LIVNE - Sharqiya

GAN FOUNDATION AWARD WINNERS

AWARDS 2009Michale BOGANIM - La Terre outragée

Stéphane CAZES - Ombline

Ève DEBOISE - Paradis Perdu

Mathieu DEMY - Americano

Cyril MENNEGUN - Louise Wimmer

AWARDS 2008Yann CORIDIAN - Ouf

Muriel EDELSTEIN - L’Ange Forel (not shot)

Paz FÁBREGA - Agua fría de mar

Philippe GODEAU - Le Dernier pour la route

Katell QUILLÉVÉRÉ - Un poison violent

Sameh ZOABI - Téléphone arabe

Joann SFAR and Antoine DELESVAUX - Le Chat du Rabbin / Special Award

AWARDS 2007Alejandro FERNANDEZ - Huacho

Hadar FRIEDLICH - Beautiful Valley

Céline MACHEREL - Un bonheur insoutenable (not shot)

Werner PENZEL - Les Autonautes de la cosmoroute (not shot)

Philippe VAN LEEUW - Le jour où Dieu est parti en voyage

AWARDS 2006Souad EL BOUHATI - Française

Annemarie JACIR - Le Sel de la mer

Alain MONNE - L’Homme de chevet

Michelange QUAY - Mange, ceci est mon corps

Samuel COLLARDEY - L’Apprenti / Special Award

AWARDS 2005Olivier COUSSEMACQ - L’Enfance du mal

Isabelle CZAJKA - L’Année suivante

Antoine LE BOS - La Vague noire (not shot)

Patrice MARTINEAU - Un don du ciel (not shot)

David OELHOFFEN - Nos retrouvailles

Nicolas PICARD-DREYFUSS - La Vie petite (not shot)

AWARDS 2004Emmanuel CARRÈRE - La Moustache

Mathieu GÉRAULT - Journal IV (uncompleted)

Mia HANSEN - LØVE - Tout est pardonné

Gabriel LE BOMIN - Les Fragments d’Antonin

Thomas LILTI - Les Yeux bandés

Marjane SATRAPI - Persepolis / Special Award

AWARDS 2003Judith ABITBOL - À bas bruit

Philippe DECOUFLÉ - La Malédiction du Gitan (not shot)

Pierre-Erwan GUILLAUME - L’Ennemi naturel

David LAMBERT - Prisonnière (not shot)

Laure MARSAC - Le Quatrième morceau de la femme coupée en trois

Laurent SALGUES - Rêves de de poussière

AWARDS 2002Joël BRISSE - La Fin du règne animal

Ève DEBOISE - Week-end à Rome (not shot)

Éléonore FAUCHER - Brodeuses

Mikhaïl KOBAKHIDZE - Comme un nuage (not shot)

Jean-Marc MOUTOUT - Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré

AWARDS 2001Raja AMARI - Satin Rouge

Virginie CHANU - Journées froides qui menacent les plantes (not shot)

Sébastien JAUDEAU - La Part animale

Pablo REYERO - La Croix du Sud

Thomas de THIER - Des plumes dans la tête

AWARDS 2000Yamina BACHIR - Rachida

Brice CAUVIN - De particulier à particulier

Amalia ESCRIVA - Avec tout mon amour

Ismaël FERROUKHI - Le Grand voyage

Christophe HONORÉ - Dix sept fois Cécile Cassard

Alain RAOUST - La Cage

AWARDS 1999Christian CARION - Une hirondelle a fait le printemps

Olivier JAHAN - Faites comme si je n’étais pas là

Maria de MEDEIROS - Capitaines d’avril

Emmanuel SILVESTRE and Thibault STAIB André le magnifique

Jacques PERRIN - Le Peuple migrateur / Special Award

AWARDS 1998Mostefa DJADJAM - Frontières

Marc-Henri DUFRESNE - Le Voyage à Paris

Sam KARMANN - Kennedy et moi

Raoul PECK - Lumumba

Anne VILLACÈQUE - Petite chérie

AWARDS 1997Laurent ACHARD - Plus qu’hier, moins que demain

Dominique CHOISY - Confort moderne

Karim DRIDI - Hors jeu

Didier LE PÊCHEUR - J’aimerais pas crever un dimanche

Jacques MAILLOT - Nos vies heureuses

Bertrand TREUIL - Le Fils du vent (not shot)

AWARDS 1996Gilles BOURDOS - Disparus

Atef HETATA - Les Portes fermées

Jacques NOLOT - L’Arrière-pays

Rithy PANH - Un soir après la guerre

Erick ZONCA - La Vie rêvée des anges

Olivier DUCASTEL and Jacques MARTINEAU Jeanne et le garçon formidable / Special Award

AWARDS 1995Jacques DESCHAMPS - Méfie-toi de l’eau qui dort

Bruno DUMONT - La Vie de Jésus

Ademir KENOVIC - Le Cercle parfait

Tonie MARSHALL - Enfants de salaud

Olivier SCHATZKY - L’Élève

Charlotte SILVERA - C’est la tangente que je préfère

Éric VALLI - Himalaya, l’enfance d’un chef

AWARDS 1994Diane BERTRAND - Un samedi sur la terre

Bernard GIRAUDEAU - Les Caprices d’un fleuve

Rachida KRIM - Sous les pieds des femmes

Jeanne LABRUNE - Vatel ou le vertige (directed by Roland JOFFÉ)

Gaël MOREL - À toute vitesse

Manuel POIRIER - À la campagne

Jean TEULÉ - Rainbow pour Rimbaud

Bernard DARTIGUES - Les Enfants du Soleil / Special Award

AWARDS 1993Rachid BOUCHAREB - Poussières de vie

Ferid BOUGHEDIR - Un été à la Goulette

Christine CARRIÈRE - Rosine

Yvon MARCIANO - Le Cri de la soie

Roch STEPHANIK - Les Orphelins (not shot)

Zdenek TYC - Les Lames de rasoir

Sandrine VEYSSET - Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël ?

AWARDS 1992Edwin BAILY - Faut-il aimer Mathilde ?

Liria BÉGÉJA - Loin des barbares

Catherine CORSINI - Les Amoureux

Claude MASSOT - Kabloonak

Igor MINAIEV - L’Inondation

Florence ROUSSEAU - Al Brown (not shot)

Robinson SAVARY - Pas d’extase (not shot)

DAI Sijie - Le Mangeur de Lune

Claude NURIDSANY and Marie PERENNOU - Microcosmos / Special Award

AWARDS 1991TRAN Anh Hung - L’Odeur de la papaye verte

Paolo BARZMAN - Time is money

Cyril COLLARD - Les Nuits fauves

Patricia MAZUY - Voleurs (not shot)

Agnès MERLET - Le Fils du requin

Gilles ROMERA - Fils de zup

Nicolas PHILIBERT- Le Pays des sourds / Special Award

AWARDS 1990Patrick DEWOLF - Mémoire traquée

François DUPEYRON - Un coeur qui bat

Jean-Pierre JEUNET and Marc CARO - Delicatessen

Jeanne LABRUNE - Sans un cri

Jean-Jacques ZILBERMANN - Tout le monde n’a pas eu la chance d’avoir des parents communistes

AWARDS 1989Gabriel AGHION - Rue du Bac

Rachid BOUCHAREB - Cheb

Geneviève LEFÈBVRE - Des fenêtres pour les oiseaux (not shot)

Raymond RAJAONARIVELO - Quand les étoiles rencontrent la mer

Valeria SARMIENTO - Amelia Lopes O’Neil

Raymond DEPARDON - La Captive du désert / Special Award

AWARDS 1988Jérôme DIAMANT-BERGER - La Légende

Gérard FROT-COUTAZ - Après après-demain

Arthur JOFFÉ - Alberto Express

Idrissa OUEDRAOGO - Yaaba

Régis WARGNIER - Je suis le Seigneur du Château

AWARDS 1987Pierre BEUCHOT - Aventure de Catherine C

Jean-Pierre LIMOSIN - L’Autre nuit

John LVOFF - La Salle de bain

Patricia MAZUY - Peaux de vaches

Emilio PACULL - Terre sacrée Cré

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In a role spanning 30 years, the Gan Foundation for Cinema is an active partner

in cinematographic creation.