{"id":24222,"date":"2021-06-07T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dgcine.gob.do\/?p=24222"},"modified":"2024-01-22T23:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T22:37:21","slug":"islands-use-innovative-incentives-locations-as-film-tv-shoots-set-up-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgcine.gob.do\/en\/islands-use-innovative-incentives-locations-as-film-tv-shoots-set-up-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Islands Use Innovative Incentives, Locations as Film, TV Shoots Set Up Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To paraphrase an old adage, there\u2019s bound to be a silver lining in every cloud. Indeed, for some&nbsp;<strong>Caribbean<\/strong>&nbsp;island locations, the&nbsp;<strong>COVID-19<\/strong>&nbsp;pandemic, despite some losses in human life, has been a blessing for their audiovisual industries. The&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/dominican-republic\/\">Dominican Republic<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/puerto-rico\/\">Puerto Rico<\/a><\/strong>, two of the most generous locations in terms of film incentives, are expecting a record boom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe number and size of projects coming to the country have increased exponentially,\u201d says&nbsp;<strong>Albert Martinez<\/strong>, COO of&nbsp;<strong>Lantica Medi<\/strong>a, which operates the&nbsp;<strong>Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios<\/strong>. \u201cBy opening up earlier than other locations, many projects gravitated to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the first major productions to film in the&nbsp;<strong>Dominican Republic<\/strong>, and which made full use of&nbsp;<strong>Pinewood DR<\/strong>, was&nbsp;<strong>\u201cOld\u201d,<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;thriller starring&nbsp;<strong>Gael Garcia Bernal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<strong>Dominican Republic\u2019s Film Commission<\/strong>&nbsp;projects a total foreign production spend of around $176 million by year-end, up from $35 million last year. As hotels and other amenities were taken over by productions, the hospitality and ancillary industries stayed afloat despite the dip in tourism, says film commissioner&nbsp;<strong>Marianna Vargas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLocal transport companies are building set trailers to meet the growing demands,\u201d adds&nbsp;<strong>Vargas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both the&nbsp;<strong>Dominican Republic<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Puerto Rico<\/strong>&nbsp;opened up to visitors around June and fared relatively well in their battles against the deadly coronavirus. Puerto Rico just lifted a year-long curfew while the Dominican Republic has been pushing back its current one to later hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Puerto Rico\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;tax incentive program offers a 40% production tax credit to Puerto Rico resident companies and individuals and a 20% tax credit on all payments to qualified non-resident individuals. Preferential tax exemptions ranging from 4% to 100% lead to more savings. Because&nbsp;<strong>Puerto Ric<\/strong>o is a U.S. territory, U.S. producers do not have to contend with visas, commercial barriers or different currency and banking systems, says film commissioner&nbsp;<strong>Rosi Acosta<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The annual cap on credits to&nbsp;<strong>Puerto Rico<\/strong>&nbsp;resident companies and individuals is now at $38 million per fiscal year, down from the original $50 million cap. \u201cWe\u2019re working on both public and private levels to raise it back to $50 million,\u201d says&nbsp;<strong>Acosta<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the nine recent foreign pics to shoot in&nbsp;<strong>Puerto Rico<\/strong>&nbsp;are&nbsp;<strong>Randall Emmett\u2019s \u201cWash Me in the River\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<strong>Robert De Niro<\/strong>, while local productions are led by&nbsp;<strong>\u201cEl Cuartito\u201d,<\/strong>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<strong>Marcos Carnevale<\/strong>, set for a limited release in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the&nbsp;<strong>Dominican Republic<\/strong>, international productions spending a minimum of $500,000 can tap a 25% transferable tax credit on qualified expenditure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2019, the withholding tax of 27% levied on foreigners working in the&nbsp;<strong>DR<\/strong>&nbsp;was reduced to 1.5%, leading to an upsurge in filming. International producers are also exempt from paying the 18% VAT tax. Furthermore, equipment imported for the location shoot is exempt from payment of duty. Recent productions in the&nbsp;<strong>DR<\/strong>&nbsp;include&nbsp;<strong>Mark Wahlberg-starrer \u201cArthur the King\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong>and<strong>&nbsp;Jennifer Lopez\u2019s \u201cShotgun Wedding\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 36-square-mile island of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/nevis\/\">Nevis<\/a>, located 218 miles southeast of&nbsp;<strong>Puerto Rico<\/strong>, has been a lifesaver for U.S.\/U.K.-based MSR Media, which scouted various locations until landing on this tiny island where no COVID deaths have been reported. Under an extended multi-project, three-year production deal with the Nevis administration, the island has offered access to multiple locations, hotel support and expedited permits for MSR Media\u2019s projects filming back-to-back, with the third one, romantic comedy&nbsp;<strong>\u201cTwo Weeks in Paradise\u201d,<\/strong>&nbsp;set to shoot in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis new multi-year multi-film deal is truly good news for Nevis\u201d, says its premier,&nbsp;<strong>Mark Brantley<\/strong>. \u201cMy government\u2019s vision for a film industry, born out of a need to diversify our economy from its heavy dependence on tourism, is bearing spectacular fruit due to this partnership with&nbsp;<strong>MSR Media<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile,&nbsp;<strong>MSR Media<\/strong>&nbsp;has opened an acting academy in Nevis and is in talks with the authorities of sister island&nbsp;<strong>St. Kitts<\/strong>&nbsp;to open a similar academy there. \u201cWe have been thoroughly impressed with the progress and skills we have seen so far and we only see opportunities for the local community growing as we shoot more titles,\u201d says&nbsp;<strong>MSR Media\u2019s Philippe Martinez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cayman Islands also struck a similar multi-production deal with&nbsp;<strong>Productivity Media&nbsp;<\/strong>and<strong>&nbsp;Darius Films<\/strong>&nbsp;earlier this year. The accord kicked off with dark comedy&nbsp;<strong>\u201cBlue Iguana\u201d<\/strong>, now in post, to be followed by&nbsp;<strong>Jonathan Sobol\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;action drama&nbsp;<strong>\u201cThe Baker\u201d,<\/strong>&nbsp;starring&nbsp;<strong>Harvey Keitel&nbsp;<\/strong>and<strong>&nbsp;Ron Perlman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other side of the world, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/philippines\/\"><strong>Philippines<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;introduced a set of incentives just as the pandemic broke out. Among them is the Film Location Incentive Program (Flip), a program that grants eligible international projects a 20% cash rebate of up to 10 million pesos ($198,000) on their qualified spend in the country. There are also new film funds, led by the Intl. Co-production Fund (ICOF), for feature films with a majority or minority co-production agreement with the&nbsp;<strong>Philippines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe soft-launched Flip as early as 2019 in the&nbsp;<strong>Asian Film Market<\/strong>&nbsp;and conducted its very first cycle of applications last year,\u201d says&nbsp;<strong>Liza Di\u00f1o<\/strong>, Chair of the&nbsp;<strong>Film Development Council of the Philippines<\/strong>, who added that foreign film crews and talent can apply for exemptions to the current restrictions on visitors. \u201cSince then, five productions have been granted the rebate as of May 2021. Most notable of these projects is&nbsp;<strong>\u201cAlmost Paradise\u201d,<\/strong>&nbsp;an American crime drama television series produced by&nbsp;<strong>Hollywood<\/strong>&nbsp;producer and director&nbsp;<strong>Dean Devlin<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase an old adage, there\u2019s bound to be a silver lining in every cloud. Indeed, for some&nbsp;Caribbean&nbsp;island locations, the&nbsp;COVID-19&nbsp;pandemic, despite some losses in human life, has been a blessing for their audiovisual industries. 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