GROWDEN ENTERTAINMENT PTY LTD
Film Production Consultant
Registered Tax Agent and ASIC (company) Agent
16 acre FILM STUDIO
Certified Practising
Accountants
ONE STOP SHOP
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AUSTRALIAN
FEDERAL TAX INCENTIVE ADVICE |
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Conditions Apply |
Producer Offset up to 40%of QAPE* for Features and IMAX
productions. |
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QAPE tax offsets are usually credited directly to applicant’s
bank account within four weeks of lodging the return. |
Post, Digital and Visual Effects (PDV) Offset UP to 30% |
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or alternatively |
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Location Offset—30 per cent of QAPE from 1 July 2023 (Foreign
production in AUstraial). |
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STATE GOVERNMENT TAX INCENTIVE APPLICATION ADVICE |
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The states, territory and local councils provide a
range of supplementary incentives for film producers including: |
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Separate conditions apply for the many and various
state government grant program. |
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The incentives are available as at 1 January 2024.
The various programs are continually revised renamed and reinvented and
subjected to changing rules. |
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NSW
(Post Digital Video) PDV Up to 10%. Can be combined with QAPE incentives. |
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Victoria Government Digital Screen Rebate up to 10
%. Can be combined with QAPE incentives. |
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Western
Australia State Government on Post VFX qualifying expenditure of up to 20% on
the first $500K expenditure dropping to 10% for spending that exceeds $500k. |
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Queensland
Government offers a state Payroll Tax Rebate up to 4.7%. of wages. Can be
combined with QAPE incentives. |
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Queensland
Government Production Attraction Incentive up to$3.5 million Can be combined
with QAPE incentives. |
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Queensland
Government has a Revolving Film Financing Fund with interest at 50% of the
90-day Bank Bill Swap Rate plus a 5.5% administration cost. This is secured
against the Producer Offset QAPE rebate. |
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Queensland
Government Screen Finance Funnd up to $850,000 for productions led by
Queensland Creatives, |
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Tasmania
offers Grants and Equity Investments on a case by case
basis. |
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Northern
Territory offers a Production Attraction Incentive Program for Fiction
Feature Films, Documentaries and Series. |
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ACCOUNTING TAX and QAPE REPORTING SERVICES |
QAPE Film
Certification Compliance Advisory |
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Business structuring advisory |
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Company formation |
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Corporate advisory |
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Tax registration and compliance |
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Production budget |
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Payroll |
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NETWORKED OF SPECIALIST FILM INDUSTRY PROVIDERS |
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SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT |
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Script Development from Concept to Bible |
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LOGLINE AND PITCH |
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Storyboarding |
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PRODUCTION SUPPORT |
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For producers
claiming a federal tax offsets ‘The applicant company must carry out, or make arrangements for carrying out, all the activities necessary for making the
project.’ |
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Company
administration |
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Production
scheduling and programming |
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Daily
Call Sheet |
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Talent and casting |
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Production support - |
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Engineering support and trouble shooting |
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Direction |
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Direction of Photography |
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Sound |
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LIghting |
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Office Space |
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Green Room |
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Makeup |
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Rehearsal |
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Postproduction and editing |
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Set design
– fabrication – Growden Entertainment Pty Ltd Melbourne Film Studio retains
an on-site carpenter. |
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Supporting Film Crew and Equipment |
GROWDEN ENTERTAINMENT PTY LTD MELBOURNE FILM STUDIO (FILM GEMS)
RISK MANAGEMENT
- LOSING THE DRAMA
LOGLINE
There is a line of reasoning that
says actors need to be compensated for damage to reputation they might suffer
by playing a role. When a person appears
on film thy give something of themselves away.
LOGLINE
In an age where Police use of
artificial intelligence face recognition software to data match information
about individuals a Vlogger with camera on a gimbal direct feeding to internet
who had captured an image of the face of a violent prison
escapee collapses to the ground.
LOGLINE
During the filming a scene in The
Shearwater Sanctuary a gardener starts cutting down trees with a noisy
chainsaw and scares the birds away.
LOGLINE
While filming a narrative scene
in a crime documentary an audience gathers distracting the actor’s attention
and diminishing the performance.
LOGLINE
A film producer receives a writ
from the manager of an actress which alleges that while was performing in a
naked pool scene a vlogger walked along the outside of the front fence filming
from the road with a camera on a stick and published it online.
LOGLINE
A vlogger captures a prominent and
well-known politician with an addiction weakness who appears very drunk being
led away by some underworld characters in a seedy part of town on her camera.
LOGLINE
A citisen’s group of shy discreet
people, who don’t want to be filmed, meet and discuss
a campaign of war against the vloggers. They consider defences such as
disguise, facemasks umbrellas etc, the possible avenues of litigation, possible
police support, video sabotage calling out banned words that would stop the
distributors from showing the material, legislative reform, political
campaigning but decide that vigilante reprisal is the only answer.
Logline
A well signed unscripted truck
pulls up in full background view of a scene in a film which was sponsored by
their major transportation company competitor and the image can’t be removed
without reshooting the scene at great cost.
Logline
A police marksman has a clear line
of sight on a kidnapper who has murdered 13 hostages but refuses to pull the
trigger because a vlogger has pointed a camera on a stick at him through a
window.
Logline
A well-known and professionally
managed personality is filmed in the background of a scene of a production and
their manager approaches the company seeking compensation for use of the image.
LOSE THE DRAMA
Film within the exclusive
boundaries of Growden Entertainment Melbourne Film Studio on a safe secure and
private estate.
Growden Entertainment Film Studio
on 16 acers allows you to invent, copyright and control your sets. Directors
can remove everything that is not meant to be in a scene from the scene. By
filming in on exclusive private property you have total control to set up any
background and include or exclude every person and matter. You have the key to
the gate. There are no extra brands or
characters that the errors and omissions lawyers need to factor into the risk
assessment, and you can take a scene as many times as you like in the privacy
and security of your own space without actor evaluation apprehension. It
enables you to program your scene shoot with confidence that external
disruptions to production are unlikely.
The Film Studio is
located 10 minutes from Tullamarine Airport There are a wide range of quiet and
adaptable locations and acreages Produces can reserve time and space to build
sets and settle artwork www.filmstudio.director.host
BOOK EARLY
ENDNOTES
*Qualified Australian
Production Expenditure expenses classified
as having been spent in Australia such as Studio Hire, and Consultancy. There
are specific rules as to which expense and overheads may be incentivised but
generally the production must have a large portion of Australian content.
Enquire about Growden
Entertainment Pty Ltd support for student and Indy Productions.
Level 1
2, 4 & 5 Main Street
POINT COOK VIC 3030
M 0411860494
Ph 03 86828677
Fax 0390156592
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