La Fondation Groupama Gan pour le Cinéma
Born in 1987, Groupama Gan Foundation for the Cinema is today one of its key private partners. It has accompanied 130 filmmakers in making their first feature film, thanks to project grants. Today its support is recognized as a mark of quality.
The Foundation also promotes more than 30 film festivals in France and abroad. Again this year at the Festival de Cannes, it will award the Prix Un Certain Regard - Fondation Groupama Gan pour le Cinéma.
Finally, the Foundation champions the preservation of film classics. It has participed in the restoration of L’Age d’or by Luis Bunuel, Jour de fête, PlayTime and My Uncle by Jacques Tati…This year alone it has participated in the restoration of Lufti Akad’s first film Strike the Whore; two documentaries by Manuel de Oliveira; and, of course, Jacques Tati’s Mr Hulot’s Holiday !
It has also accompanied the release of the uncut version of Michelangelo Antonioni’s documentary China-Chung Kuo, as well as the production of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno by Serge Bromberg.