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Most states provide some form of soft money film financing to production companies.
Soft money are state subsidies in the form of tax credits, cash rebates and grants. They provide partial financing for productions, to cover pre-production, production and post-production expenses, including the costs of goods and services and wages or salaries paid to each resident and non-resident cast and crew.

Some states have a minimum spend of only $50,000 where as other states have a minimum  spend of $1 million.

Talked to us about your film requirements and we get a team to assist with matching your project with the best incentives.

UK Film Tax Relief:

Up to 25% cash rebate of qualifying expenditure. Must pass a cultural test or qualify as an official co-production (that is, made under UK’s co-production treaties). Project cap: 80% of qualifying expenditure. Minimum spend: 10% of qualifying production expenditure

National Funding:

National funding incentives available to international producers include BBC Films, BFI Production & Development Funding, Film4 and Pinewood Pictures.

Regional Funding:

Regional incentives include the following:

1. the Yorkshire Content Fund (will invest the lower of up to 10% of the total production budget or up to £500,000);
2. Film Cymru Wales Production Funding (provides grants of up to £300,000 for writers, directors and producers who are either born or currently residing in Wales working in English or Welsh);
3. Creative Scotland Screen Funding (provides single project development Funding of £3,000-£50,000, Slate Development Funding of £50,000-£100,000, production funding of £50,000-£500,000, and distribution and exhibition funding of £5,000 – £15,000);
4. Northern Ireland Production Funding of a maximum of £800,000 for feature film and television production and £500,000 for interactive content production, up to a ceiling of 25% of the overall project budget. Funding is in the form of a recoupable loan with profit participation or in limited circumstances a grant. Available to productions with more than 65% of funding already in place.

Talked to us about your film requirements and we get a team to assist with matching your project with the best incentives.

Australian Government support

Consider an story based in Australia with clear ties to Australia  as your next big short film.

The Australian Screen Production Incentive is made up of three mutually exclusive, uncapped tax offsets (akin to rebates):

1. The 16.5% Location Offset to attract large budget offshore film and
   TV production to work in Australia
2. The 30% PDV Offset (Post, Digital and Visual effects production)
   to encourage production companies to work with Australia’s world-class VFX, animation and post production sector
3. The Producer Offset (40% for feature films and 20% for non-features)
   for Australian projects and official co-productions.

Our team would be happy to assist to determine whether your project meets the Screen Australia criterion.

For more information: ‘Doing business with Australia booklet.pdf’ 

30% tax rebate of qualified expenditures for international productions. Must pass cultural test.
Must shoot a minimum of five (5) days in France for live action, and 50% of the qualified spend for VFX and post-production.
No residency requirements for actors and crew (except director and production staff).
Project cap: €30 million. Minimum Spend: the lower of €250,000 or 50% of the production budget.

French regional funds: available to 100% French projects or official co-productions (productions based in EU, a European Convention on Cinematographic Co-Production member state, or one of the 56 countries which have co-production agreements or treaties with France, including Canada and UK).

The Automatic Subsidies (“Compte de Soutien”):

A percentage of the film’s sales revenue from the French box office, video (DVD, Blu-ray, VOD) and TV broadcasting rights.

Sofica Funds: private equity investment for 100% French projects or official co-productions. Available mostly as gap funding. Soficas are equity funds financed with tax-related money, hence, we have placed them in the “soft money” category.

The Advance upon Receipts (“Avance sur Recettes”): A discretionary refundable grant to French-speaking projects, chosen at the script stage for their cultural value.

New Technologies in Production Fund: A subsidy to producers of movie or TV projects who work in 3D, or who use innovative digital technologies (digital visual effects, synthetic, imaging, development of specific processes).

Aide aux Cinemas du Monde (ACM): A discretionary support grant to co-productions for production and post-production. Minimum spend: 50% of the amount of the grant. There is no need to have any financing in place to qualify for the grant. Must be produced under a bilateral or co-production treaty if budget is greater than €2.5 million.

20% of qualified production spend, plus 2.5% for qualified post-production spend of at least R1.5 million (5% if post-production spend is R3 million and above).

Project cap: R50 million. Minimum spend: R12 million for production, R1.5 million for post-production

Up to 25% cash grant of approved production costs. Must pass a cultural and citizenship test. Production must have at least 30% international financing. Minimum total budget of NOK 25 million for feature films, NOK 10 million per episode for drama, NOK 10 million for feature docs, and NOK 5 million per episode for doc series.

Minimum spend: NOK 2 million

Zefyr: provides support and investments to audiovisual projects in the west and south of Norway in the form of:

Public funding: NOK 10 million per year in non-recoupable funding. Projects that contribute to the development of producers, directors and screenwriters in the region are prioritised.

Private equity / Gap: NOK 40 million, to be recouped in 1st position / alongside other private investors. Project must be for Norwegian theatrical distribution.

Norwegian Film Institute (NFI): non-recoupable funding up to 50% of the Norwegian part of the budget or €100,000 – €500,000.
Available to international co-productions with a Norwegian producer participating as a minority co-producer. Must pass a cultural test.

30% cash rebate on qualifying production expenditure for goods and services and resident and non-resident below-the-line labor.

Must shoot a least one (1) day of principal photography in Abu Dhabi.

Project cap: US$5 million for feature films (US$250,000 for post-production), US$1 million for television programs or series (US$150,000 for post-production), US$500,000 for commercials (US$150,000 for post-production).
Minimum spend: US$70,000 for feature films, US$15,000 for television programs or series, US$10,000 for commercials

30% cash rebate on all qualifying expenditure. At least 30% of the production crew must be residents or citizens.
Minimum spend (for foreign productions or co-productions): MYR 5 million for production, MYR 1.5 million for post-production, MYR 385,000 per hour for television series

40% cash rebate, plus 10% business tax rebate of qualifying production expenditures in China’s Qingdao Region. At least 50% of qualified spend must be at the Dalian Wanda Studios. Project cap: 120 million RMB. Minimum spend: 30 million RMB

Tax shelter investments: 40-45% tax credit to investors for qualifying expenses. Tax shelter investments are available to European and International productions. To qualify for tax shelter investments, the country of the foreign producer must be under co-production treaty or bilateral agreement with Belgium. Minimum spend: €250,000 (in the Flemish Region).

1. Economic funds:
   Up to €400,000 of refundable advances for qualified expenses in the Flemish Region.
2. Up to €500,000 for production expenses in Wallonia (South of Belgium).
3. Up to €500,000 of refundable advances for qualified expenses in the Brussels-Capital Region.

Cultural funds:

1. Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) discretionary grant for expenses in Flanders (Flemish Community) and international co-productions with Flanders-based producers.
2. Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel (CCA) discretionary financial grants and advances on receipts for expenses in the French-speaking Community (or “Wallonia-Brussels Federation”).

To qualify for these economic and cultural funds, foreign producers can co-produce with a Belgian producer. These co-productions will normally be undertaken within the framework of bilateral co-production agreements signed with countries, such as Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Morocco, Tunisia and Switzerland.

20% grant of the production expenses, up to 25% grant for Austrian service production company (service productions). Project cap: €1.1 Million. Available to Austrian productions, Austrian-international co-productions and international productions obliged to work with an Austrian service production company. Austrian productions and Austrian-international co-productions must have a minimum budget of €2.3 million for feature films and of €350,000 for documentaries.

International productions with an Austrian service production company must have a budget of at least €8 Million for feature films, €1 million for documentary. Must shoot a minimum of five (5) days in Austria for feature films. Must pass a “Cultural Test”. “Film Industry Support Austria” (FISA) support can be combined with funding provided by other film subsidy institutions or government authorities. Minimum spend: €1 Million (for service productions)

Up to 50% subsidy of the qualified costs for features, documentaries and animated films or up to 70% of the production costs in the case of a difficult film project.

For international co-productions, a local producer must contribute a minimum of 20% (in the case of a bilateral co-production) or 10% (in the instance of a multilateral co-production) of the planned costs of the project. Local producer must have a minimum artistic contribution to the project.

Regional Film Funds: up to 50% of the film budget. There are a number of Polish regional film funds that differ in terms of the budgets they manage, the form of support they provide and the sums which must be expended in the city, town or region during the production of the film. Support most often takes the form of the institution managing the fund participating in the production as a co-producer with its own financial contribution or contribution in kind or in the form of non-repayable grants or refunds.

Eurimages European Cinema Support Fund: A conditionally repayable, interest-free loan.

Project cap: The lower of 17% of the total production budget or €500,000. Must have at least two independent producers from different member states of the Fund.
The combined percentage contribution of co-producers from non-member states of the Fund must not exceed 30% of the total co-production budget.

The European Union’s Creative Europe initiative: offers non-repayable grants to producers, distributors, sales agents, and operators of new digital technologies and VoD platforms.

The Polish-German Film Fund: €70,000 subsidy for project development, plus €150,000 for film production. Must be a project development/co-production agreement between at least one Polish producer and one German producer.
Can have producers from third countries. Each producer must contribute at least 20% of the total production budget including the subsidy. Supports maximum production budget of €750,000.