Playing a foundational role in the history of film and benefitting from enough picturesque locales to launch a thousand postcards, France has long attracted directors and crews from across the globe.Keeping them on site for more than a few days, however, was once a different story altogether.The 2009 passage of the Tax Rebate for Intl.
Production (Trip) and the subsequent 13 years of refinements both incremental and substantial have fundamentally reshaped that logic.
Just last year, for instance, 92 international projects benefitted from the Trip plan, marking a 25 increase from 2019 and accounting for upward of 420 million spent on French soil.“On an international basis, the tax credit put France on the table,” says John Bernard, CEO of production service facilitator Peninsula Film.
As a line producer, Bernard has staffed big-budget productions like “Dunkirk,” “Hugo” and “The Last Duel,” while acting as a kind of international adaptor, delivering Hollywood production requirements through French working conditions.
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