France

CNC

Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée

National Film Agency · Paris

The public body, under the Ministry of Culture, that regulates, funds and supports the French film and audiovisual industry — administering tax credits (including the international one), the support fund and professional regulation. The top-level state body relevant to all film labour in France, cascadeurs included, and now home to Film France-CNC.

Film France-CNC

Commission nationale du film

National Film Commission · France

The national film commission, integrated into the CNC, promoting shooting and post-production in France, coordinating the regional film-commission network, managing the international tax credit and a 21,000-plus location database. The first port of call for productions setting up action shoots in France; its guides cover the on-set safety and employment law governing stunt work.

SFA-CGT

Syndicat français des artistes-interprètes

Performers' Union · France

The main French union for performing artists, affiliated to the FNSAC-CGT and the International Federation of Actors. Cascadeurs work as artistes-interprètes within the intermittents du spectacle system, and the SFA is the union that secured their specific unemployment cover and defends performers' agreements and pay. There is no currently-active dedicated cascadeur union, so the SFA is the relevant labour body.

France Cascade

Stunt Register & Network · France

The first national online network and directory dedicated to French cascadeurs — a searchable register of professional stunt performers and coordinators (régleurs/coordinateurs de cascades) built so productions can find verified talent. Professional listing requires at least ten verified film/TV stunt credits, making it the closest thing France has to a working national stunt register.

Stunt Guys

Vehicle & Mechanical Stunts · Île-de-France

A vehicle-stunt company with 20-plus years coordinating and performing car, motorcycle and quad action — controlled drifts, chases, jumps, roll-cage cars — for cinema, TV, advertising and live shows. Credits cited include Mission: Impossible, the TAXI franchise, The Bourne Identity, Lucy and Dunkirk. It also runs what it calls Europe's largest mechanical-stunt school. Instagram @stuntguysdrive.

Cascade Stunt — Jérôme Henry

Stunt Coordination · France

A coordination and stunt-rigging outfit led by veteran coordinator Jérôme Henry, who began on La Révolution française and now coordinates a multidisciplinary team for film and TV in France and abroad, including actor coaching and police/criminology technical advising. A steady stream of recent French TV-film credits marks it an active, working coordinator team. Instagram @jerome_henry_stunt_coordinator.

Mad Stunt

Stunt & Stage-Combat Team · Bordeaux

Founded 2020 as a non-profit association, a team of professional cascadeurs whose founders include Chaû Belle (a founding member of the Yamakasi). It works across cinema, TV and live performance — stunt coordination, fight choreography, previz — with IMDb-referenced coaches, and runs a year-round academy. Instagram @madstunt.

Campus Univers Cascades (CUC)

billed as the biggest stunt school in the world

Stunt School · Le Cateau-Cambrésis

Created in 2008, a dedicated professional stunt-training centre with purpose-built facilities and instruction from recognised French stunt coordinators, choreographers and Yamakasi members. It offers full professional training (AFDAS-eligible) plus immersion weekends, a Gravity Summer Camp and international workshops, and runs its own CUC Prod stunt team. Qualiopi-certified. Instagram @campus.univers.cascades.

Westunt

Stunt School & Action Studio · Île-de-France

A Paris-region action-training collective and stunt-coordination studio led by Julien Bruant (fight choreography and rigging). Its modular professional courses cover wire rigging, action acting and fire work, backed by a multi-zone studio with a 10 m rigging space and combat area. It also provides on-set coordination and keeps a member register; Qualiopi-certified. Instagram @westunt____.