SPA Congratulates Screen Tasmania on Island Screen Incentive – Screen Producers Australia (SPA) welcomes the news of Screen Tasmania’s new Island Screen Incentive, designed to attract non-Tasmanian screen productions to film in the state.
The incentive aims to encourage production businesses to Tassie shores in the hope that the Tasmanian economy will receive a boost through spending and that the local screen industry will benefit from employment opportunities and skills development.
“SPA applauds Screen Tasmania’s introduction of the Island Screen Incentive and their proactiveness in encouraging productions to the state to both continue to build the local industry while enabling producers to work with the wealth of local stories and talent while highlighting unique Tasmanian landscapes, history, heritage and culture,”
– said SPA CEO Matthew Deaner.
Financial support is provided as a grant at the rate of 10% of the expenditure on Tasmanian goods and services while producing the project, capped at AUD$500,000 (excluding GST).
Projects are eligible if they are long-form live-action that expends at least AUD$1.5 million in Tasmanian spending and are substantially based in Tasmania.
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