Money talks. On Jan.1, Bizkaia, the Basque Country province, introduced new tax breaks with one of – if not the – highest deduction rate in the world: up to 70%. No other rate registered in Olswang…
The incentive super-charge comes as multiple factors are morphing the international shoot scene, which looks set to to become not just a battle of incentives – and depth of first-class talent pool, locations and studio infrastructures – as territories face off ever more over the quality of film commissions themselves.
Further shoots take in doc-series “Nuestro Universo,” produced by Silverback Films for the BBC and aired on Netflix, and Buendía Estudios’ “Marbella” for Movistar Plus+. Feel-good comedy “El Bus de la Vida,” directed by “The Beasts” producer Ibon Cormenzana, and “Anatema,” part of the Alex de la Iglesia/Sony/Amazon horror label Fear Collection, feature among further Bizkaia first-half shoots.
“There’s been an increase in shoots from when we launched in June 2017 to now. We’ve seen 53 shoots, from TV series to entertainment and realities. The volume’s gone up and we’re still seeing an increase in permits, and use of locations,” says Mike Villanueva, Film Commissioner at Castilla-La Mancha Film Commission, whose capital is Toledo. Entertainment TV shoots have gone up 35%, he added.
Countries also look set to be judged ever more according to the quality of their film commissions. Several factors are in play. As the number and muscle of shoot incentives continues to rise – the number of automatic incentives around the world increased from 86 in 2017 to 111 in 2023, May’s Global Incentives Index 2023 notes – more, not less than shoots look likely to take place outside their producers’ home country, increasing their dependence on the local knowledge base of commissions.
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