FRANCE FILMING INCENTIVES

Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur (PACA): feature film production fund

Overview

Type of incentiveFilm Fund
Qualifying formats
  • - Feature film - fiction (theatrical)
  • - Feature film - documentary (theatrical)
  • - TV Film or TV series - fiction
  • - TV Film or TV series - documentary
  • - Short films
Qualifying productions
  • - National productions
  • - Co-productions

Specifics

Benefit as a % of spend0.00
Financial cap per production152000
Do I have to register/set up a company?Yes
Does foreign cast/crew paid in their home country/region qualify as expenditure? No
Do foreign cast/crew have to pay tax in the host country/state/region? Yes
Does travel to/from country/region qualify as expenditure? No
Can a production qualify for other national incentives such as cultural programmes if it qualifies for this incentive? Yes
Criteria to access the benefit
  • - Minimum shooting days: 21
  • - Minimum percentage of the film that must be shot in the region: 50.00%
  • - Use Local cast & Crew
  • - Cultural Test
When will the benefit/incentive be received?
  • - On submission of audited accounts
Additional incentives or advantages
  • - Rece tour assistance, location finding service
  • - The amount of aid: - for writing screenplays and for development it is limited to €5,000. - for research it is limited to €15,000. - for production it is limited to €152,000 for feature films, €50,000 for feature-length documentaries, and €75,000 for television films. - It ranges from €15,000 to €25,000 for short documentaries and to €25,000 for short movies.

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