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French Production Incentives Boost Country’s Visual Effects Sector
French tax breaks boost country's VFX shops including shows like 'Walking Dead: Darryl Dixon.'
The growth of France’s VFX sector cannot be overstated, as the implementation of a comprehensive 10% bonus for international productions that spend more than $2.1 million with local companies (and the fact that the full 40% tax rebate can be earned off digital expenditures alone) has supercharged the post-production ecosystem, funneling first financial and then human capital. In practice, this cause-and-effect has fueled a wide repatriation, as skilled graduates of the country’s top training programs return from outposts abroad for the opportunity to work on projects at home. And as the workload increases — with studios like the Yard now looking at contracts much higher than the minimum $2.1 million spend for projects that never shot a frame in France — the local industry continues to mature as well.
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