France on your campus

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.

You can also check the cultural cooperation pages on our website to find out more about other programs sponsored by the Cultural Service.

Partner University Fund (PUF)

PUF was established in May 2007 under the auspices of the FACE Foundation. Thanks to the generosity of private donors and contributions from the French government, PUF launched its first call for projects in September 2007 with the objective of supporting innovative and sustainable partnerships between French and US institutions of research and higher education.

With close to 70 applications representing more than 130 French and American universities and research institutes, the results of the first call for project confirmed both the readiness of institutions across the Atlantic to build a new generation of partnerships, and the fitting of PUF as an innovative means for that purpose. .

Subject to an annual review, PUF can co-finance a developing partnership for up to 3 consecutive years, at a level of up to $80,000 per year per project. This substantial level of funding needs to be matched by the partners as PUF only funds up to 30% of the cost of a program, the rest being raised in kind or in cash by the partner universities themselves in order to ensure the sustainability of the partnerships in the long run.

For more information, please visit www.facecouncil.org/puf/.