Film Commissions
Film Commissions
Go here to post your Film Commission.
A network of 41 local film commissions throughout the country offers free information on locations, crews, labour rates and facilities.
Film France provides assistance with contacting appropriate agencies regarding immigration/work permits and filming permits, as well as information regarding labour rates, studio facilities, post-production facilities and suppliers. Nowhere else in Europe will you find such a large diversity of locations combined with a highly skilled workforce.
in the grand est Region you will find two film fund. The Region provides support in writing, development and production for 3 800 000 € per Year.
And Strasbourg Eurometropole for production for 840 000 € per year.
including filming, animation and/or post-production,
thanks to its strategic location at the crossroads of Europe
(bordering on Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium)
and its coordinated film commissions, from the outskirts
of Paris to the banks of the Rhine.
The Grand Est is an attractive location for film production and a great hotbed of professional and highly skilled technicians (live action, animation, documentary). Teams experienced in feature films and TV series are available in every domain: production, scouting, directing, scriptwriting, location management, set design, filming, grip, gaffer, sound, dressing and make-up.
Established in 2001, the Regional Council's grant for film and audio-visual creation aims to provide both French and foreign productions with funding during the different phases of project creation. Thus, the grant fund reached €3 million in 2012 and has helped more than 480 projects since its inception, for a total of over €14 million. This regional fund contributes to 35-40% of local spending.
The CICA - 'Tax Credit for Film and Audio-visual Projects': (concerns French productions)
The CICA tax credit now benefits audio-visual production companies which are subject to corporate income tax and who also act as assistant producers. The amount of tax credit granted is equal to 20 % of eligible costs, up to a maximum of €4,000,000. The tax credit is calculated at the end of each fiscal year.
The C2I-TRIP - 'International tax credit': (concerns international productions)
This concerns the cinematographic or audio-visual works of fiction or animation whose production is initiated by a foreign company whereby either all or part of the production takes place on French or Reunionese soil. The C2I is granted to the executive producer in charge of managing the filming or production of the work in Reunion and France.
The tax credit can reach up to 20% of:
- salaries and wages of Reunionese, French or European writers and performers, as well as their related social security costs;
- salaries and wages of Reunionese, French or European employees, as well as their related social security costs;
- expenses related to the use of technical industries;
- spending on transportation and catering;
- depreciation costs.
The C2I may be granted to productions generating spending of a minimum of €1 million in Reunion and across France and, for works of fiction, at least 5 days of filming. This amount can reach €10 million per production.
Reunion benefits from co-production agreements between France and the following countries: Argentina, Austria, Algeria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guinea, Hungary, India, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Korea, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Senegal, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela.
The agency offers its services free of charge, including:
- Informing you about shooting and post-production facilities in Reunion.
- Accompanying you in requests for funding, from the moment your applications have been submitted to the committee.
- Helping you in finding technicians, actors and extras.
- Looking for decors and assisting location scouts.
- Providing logistics support and ensuring the liaison with tourism professionals for accommodation, air transport, production offices, car rental etc.
- Administrative procedures: Assistance in obtaining permits for filming, ATA Carnet, temporary work permits for international co-productions, etc.
The responsibilities of the Agence Film Reunion are the following: • Providing information to project leaders. • Providing a facility which hosts film productions in Reunion, centralizing information and updating databases: decor, local technicians, service providers, production companies and partner institutions. • Ensuring the island's promotion. • Promoting the professional sector at overseas trade fairs and festivals. • Showcasing Reunionese talents on a national level, across the Indian Ocean area and internationally. • Providing support and monitoring work for authors, professionals and companies within the sector. • Responding to all requests for information about filming in Reunion. • Assisting the completion of funding applications presented to the Regional support fund for cinema, audio-visual, multimedia and clips. • Contributing to the employability and professionalism of local technicians.
With more than fifty projects benefiting from funding each year, Reunion is a major European production centre in the Indian Ocean, in both volume and investment.
