| Benefit as a % of spend | |
| 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? | 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 | |
| When will the benefit/incentive be received? | - - On commencement of principal photography
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| Additional incentives or advantages | - - As a rule, the loan for film will not exceed 50% of the applicant’s share of the budget, up to a maximum of 1 mill. Euros if production budget is over 500,000 Euros. For productions with budget under 500,000 Euros the loan can cover up to 70%.
For TV, the loan should not exceed 30% of the applicant’s share of the budget.
This incentive is a recoupable loan.
The following will have funding priority:
- culturally significant films of diverse genres
- film productions that significantly contribute to advancing the film industry in
Baden-Wurttemberg
- culturally significant television and video productions.
The production will meet the needs of a regional economic effect.
The loan will be received in 4 rates: 1st on signing the contract (20%), 2nd beginning of filming (50%), 3rd on delivery of rough cut (20%) and 4th on delivery of finished film (10%).
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