Film Incentive Report
Every Incentive.
Every Contact.
Every State.
Every state that wants your production publishes its program a little differently. One pays cash. One sells you a credit you have to find a buyer for. One has a floor that closes the door before the rate even matters. One has a statute that says something different from its own website.
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This book lines all fifty-three up in the same order, on the same terms, so you can compare them. Then it goes past the program to the things a line producer actually needs before a scout: who to call at the film office, how deep the crew runs, what a hotel room costs in the main production city, and when the weather will fight you.
What you get...
Main Content
The rate. The instrument: cash grant, refundable credit, transferable credit, or rebate. The spending floor. The cap, per project and per year. The labor rules and the residency requirement. How the money is allocated. When the program sunsets. Where the statute and the agency's own page disagree, the entry says so and says which one governs. Every entry ends with its sources and the office that administers the program.
Budget Planning Made Easy
An Excel workbook that comes in the same download.
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Pick a jurisdiction from the dropdown and every rate fills in from the parameters tab: lodging, per diem, sales tax, hotel tax, permits. Enter your schedule, your travelling crew and your local hires. The planner works out travel, lodging, per diem, payroll burden and sales tax on your taxable spend, and hands you three numbers: estimated in-state spend, cost per shoot day, and the local share of your wages.
Producers Best Friend
Producers and line producers deciding where to shoot. Production accountants building a first pass before the location scout. Independent filmmakers trying to understand why their budget works in one state and dies in the next. Anyone who has ever opened fifty-three browser tabs to answer one question.
