Melbourne is an extremely cost-effective film making city and its attractive financial incentives make it an appealing production destination.
"It's partly about economics... you can have the right dollar figure, but if you don't have the people to make the film, there's no point... ultimately we ended up with YES, we can do it! Melbourne worked really well for us."
Gary Foster, Producer, Ghost Rider
Both the State Government of Victoria and the Australian Federal Government vigorously support the film and television industry through various financial incentives.
Film Victoria's Incentive Funds
The Victorian Government, through Film Victoria, offers incentives to encourage producers to bring their film and television projects to Melbourne and the State. The incentives are a simple grant system, provided in the form of a cash rebate at the end of production, and can be combined with any one of the federal incentives.
Production Investment Attraction Fund (PIAF)
The PIAF grant is designed to attract interstate or offshore productions to film or post produce feature films, television series, mini-series, telemovies, animation series and documentaries in the state of Victoria. To be eligible, your project must be footloose (ie. projects with qualified interstate and/or overseas alternatives).
Please read the files below for further information, email or call Film Victoria on +61 3 9660 3200.
Production Investment Attraction Fund (2.45MB)
Regional Location Assistance Fund (RLAF)
The RLAF grant is designed to encourage productions to use locations outside metropolitan melbourne. RLAF assists projects by offsetting some of the additional costs incurred when filming in regional areas such as accommodation, living overheads and travel.
Please read the files below for further information, email or call Film Victoria on +61 3 9660 3207.
Australian Screen Production Incentives
The Australian Government provides tax incentives for film and television in Australia through the Australian Screen Production Incentive scheme. The incentives are available in three mutually exclusive strands.
1. Location Offset
The Location Offset provides a 15% rebate on qualifying expenditure to large budget film and television productions which film in Australia. The Location Offset is available to productions with a minimum qualifying Australian expenditure of AU$15 million. Australian spends between AU$15 million and AU$50 million must represent 70% of the production's total budget.
2. Post/Digital/VFX Offset
The Post Production, Digital and Visual Effects Offset provides a 15% rebate to projects that spend at least AU$5 million on post, digital and VFX works in Australia regardless of whether the production was shot in Australia.
For further information about the Location Offset or the Post/Digital/VFX Offset click here.
3. Producer Offset
The Producer Offset is available for producers of Australian film and television projects and is available to feature films at 40% of qualifying expenditure and to programs other than feature films (TV series, mini-series or telemovies, short-form animations, non-feature documentary or direct-to-DVD or web-distributed programming) at 20% of qualifying expenditure as set out in the legislation and guidelines.
Projects must be deemed to have Significant Australian Content (SAC) in order to be eligible for this incentive. Screen Australia, formerly the Film Finance Corporation Australia, determines eligibility for SAC.
Further details about the Producer Offset can be found on the Screen Australia website at http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/producer_offset/
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