top of page
The Texas Round-Up
Notes from working in Texas film.
What Texas has actually paid in film incentives since 2008.
We re-keyed every grant on the state’s paid-projects list, 1,259 of them. Where $372.2 million went, and what it says about the new program.
It's a rebate, not a credit. What that does to your cash flow.
No, the Texas incentive is not a tax credit. It's a cash grant paid after the state reviews your file. Here is what that does to a $3M show's money, when it's a dealbreaker, and when it isn't.
Your Texas residency requirement depends on when you shoot.
It's not one number. It's two tests and a staircase, and the step you land on is set by the day principal photography begins. Everything explained, including the part that's a question for the Commission.
The Texas incentive got real: what SB 22 actually pays in 2026.
Three hundred million dollars a biennium for a decade, a rebuilt tier ladder that tops out at 25% before uplifts, and about a hundred applications already in. The numbers, precisely.
bottom of page