Useful contacts
In order to facilitate the organization of your stay you'll find below some contacts for filming and photographing in the most famous places .

Under certain circumstances, authorisation from the police is no longer required for filming on public highways, including:
- Reports / documentaries for TV with hand-held camera or on a tripod
- Video filming, hand-held camera or on a tripod
- Fashion photography with or without a tripod
Under the following conditions :
- no hindrance is caused to traffic or pedestrians
- only portable generators are used
- only lighting apparatus with its own power supply, maximum of two machines on tripods
- there is no noise disturbance (especially music in any form)
- maximum size of group: 10 persons (technicians, actors, models)
- no person is dressed as a policeman
- no hired police vehicles are used
- no special equipment is used (heavy equipment, tripod, projector…)
- parking regulations are obeyed, unless special authorisation is obtained from the relevant police station in the arrondissement, and can be given as an evidence
- civil responsibility insurance is taken out to cover damage or injury to any third party or public domain
WARNING!
In order to broadcast or publish footage or shots, permission must be optained from the people who are photographed or filmed.
For projects involving « heavier » equipment, filming authorisation must be requested at least 3 weeks in advance by contacting:
Bureau des autorisations de tournage / prises de vues
Préfecture de Police-Direction de la sécurité publique
9 boulevard du Palais, 75195 Paris
Tél : +33 (0)1.53.71.42.35
fax : +33 (0)1.53.71.67.64
For projects outside the public highway, ie. Parks & Gardens, cemeteries, canals, banks of Seine, etc, requests must be made to:
VILLE DE PARIS
https://teleservices.paris.fr/parisfilm/
For TV show/light equipment
Mme Angélique Mercier
Communication department
Tél +33 (0)1.42.76.49.61
angelique.mercier@paris.fr
presse@paris.fr
or Mission Cinéma, Paris Film/heavy Equipment
Telephone: +33 (0)1.44.54.19.60
For filming inside Paris museums
Mme Josy Carrel-Torlet
Public development Director in charge of partnerships and communication
Tel : +33 (0)1.80.05.40.63.
josy.torlet@paris.fr
Please quote clearly :
- name and address of the company abroad
- name and address of the person in charge in France
- title of the project and brief description
- names of crew
- filming schedule (date, places, etc…)
- details of equipment
CONTACTS IN PARIS
CENTRE DES MONUMENTS NATIONAUX (for shooting inside at national monuments)
For taking pictures or filming interior shots, you need to apply 3 months in advance and pay rights to the following (fees may depend of the period of the year, length & type of programme):
Centre des Monuments Nationaux
Hôtel de Sully
62 rue Saint-Antoine
75004 Paris
Tel : +33 (0)1.44.61.20.25
laurent.michel@monuments-nationaux.fr
BATEAUX PARISIENS/LID0
Barbara LEVILLAIN
Tel : +33 (0)1.80.73.91.28
BATEAUX MOUCHES
Guillaume DUCHENE
Tel : +33 (0) 1 42 25 96 10
g.duchene@bateaux-mouches.fr
POMPIDOU CENTRE
Céline JANVIER
Tél : +33 (0)1.44.78.49.87
celine.janvier@centrepompidou.fr
EIFFEL TOWER
Alice BEUNARDEAU
Tél: +33 (0)1.44.11.23.08
GALERIES LAFAYETTE
Camille CHARPENTIER
Tél : +33 (0)6.69.51.00.42
ccharpentierberry@galerieslafayette.com
PRINTEMPS
Audrey DONAZZOLO
Tél : +33 (0)1.42.82.42.46
Stella LAROCHE
Tel : +33 (0)1.42.82.48.71
LOUVRE MUSEUM
Sophie GRANGE
Tél: +33 (0)1.40.20.53.14 / communication
sophie.grange@louvre.fr
LUXEMBOURG GARDENS
communication@senat.fr / a.ollivry@senat.fr
MAIRIE DE PARIS / PARIS CITY HALL
Parks and Gardens
Mme TRUCHON THIERRET
Tél: +33 (0)1.71.28.52.50
Pascale.truchon-thierret@paris.fr
PERE LACHAISE AND OTHER PARISIAN CEMETERIES
Contact Parks and Gardens at the Mairie de Paris (see above)
MUSEE D’ORSAY
Amélie HARDIVILLIER
Tel: +33 (0)1.40.49.48.56
amelie.hardivillier@musee-orsay.fr
MAD / LES ARTS DECORATIFS
Isabelle Mendoza / Anne-Solene DELFOLIE
Tél: +33 (0)1.44.55.59.34
NOTRE-DAME
Tel: +33(0)1.42.34.56.13
communication@notredamedeparis.fr
OPERAS
Hélène COUDRAY (Opéra Bastille)
Tél: +33(0)1.40.01.20.88
Evelyne PARIS (Opéra Garnier)
Tel: +33(0)1.40.01.24.96
POLE CINEMA TELEVISION (SNCF)
SNCF: For taking photos/filming in the stations
SNCF DIRECTION DE LA COMMUNICATION
Pôle Cinéma et Tournages
2, place aux étoiles - CS 70001
93633 - La Plaine Saint-Denis Cedex
www.cinema.sncf.com
thomas.bruneteau@sncf.fr
TOUR MONTPARNASSE
Ms Laura TURPIN
Tel: + 33 (0) 1 45 38 34 23
laura.turpin@foncia-ipm.com
TUILERIES (Jardins) & PALAIS ROYAL
Sonia FITOUSSI
Tel : +33 (0)1.49.26.07.59
VERSAILLES
Jeanne HOLLANDE
jeanne.hollande@chateauversailles.fr
Tel : +33 (0)1.30.83.74.03
CHATEAU DE FONTAINEBLEAU
Alexis Dekermel
Tel : +33 (0)1.60.71.50.73
alexis.dekermel@chateaudefontainebleau.fr
Eric Grebille
eric.grebille@chateaudefontainebleau.fr
RATP