ANTIGUA FILMING INCENTIVES

Golden Island Fireworks Fund

Overview

Type of incentive
Qualifying formats
  • - Feature film - fiction (theatrical)
Qualifying productions
  • - National productions
  • - Co-productions

Specifics

Benefit as a % of spend0.00
Financial cap per production-
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? No
Does travel to/from country/region qualify as expenditure? Yes
Can a production qualify for other national incentives such as cultural programmes if it qualifies for this incentive? No
Criteria to access the benefit
  • - Minimum percentage of the film that must be shot in the region: 0.00%
  • - Cultural Test
When will the benefit/incentive be received?
    Additional incentives or advantages
    • - Golden Island Filmworks teamed up with the government of Antigua on an initial slate of five features designed to boost the Caribbean island’s production ambitions; The first five features will range in budget from $20m-$85m - up to a total $125m. A portion of all the films will shoot in Antigua. Funding will eventually increase to $250m. Inviting international directors et al to work with Golden Island Filmworks.

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