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Australia Celebrates As Improved Rebate Scheme Arrives: “This Will Provide Certainty For International Productions”
The Australian screen industry is celebrating after the country's Location Offset scheme was raised to 30%.
The 30% Location Offset will provide certainty for international productions, supporting a stable pipeline of work for thousands of Australian screen workers and businesses, and triggering investment into new industry capacity and capabilities.” “Foreign spend on drama production and post-production reached record-breaking levels in 2022/23 per Screen Australia’s Drama Report, driven by large-scale titles such as Anyone But You, The Fall Guy, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Ricky Stanicky, alongside post, digital and visual effects work on titles that did not shoot in Australia such as Halo, Hocus Pocus 2 and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” Productions will also be required to meet minimum training obligations or contribute to the broader workforce and infrastructure capacity of the sector; engage at least one Aussie post, digital and visual effects company; and provide new reporting to capture data.
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