Wazzup Pilipinas!?
The Film Development Council of the Philippines’ FilmPhilippines Office is now
accepting applications for this year’s Incentives Program Cycle 1. The call is
open to international production companies in business with a Philippine film
producer/company on an ongoing project.
To
encourage co-production and for international filmmakers to decide to have the
country as film destination, the country offers location incentives to attract
international film and audiovisual projects for production and post-production
as well as foreign producers looking to do international co-productions with
Filipino producers.
Interested
filmmakers and production companies may apply to the following incentive
programs:
● Film Location Incentives
Program (FLIP): Grantees will receive a 20% cash rebate on their qualified
Philippine production expenditures, with rebate not exceeding PHP 10 million
(approx. USD 200,000), provided a minimum qualified production spending of PHP
8 million (approx. USD 157,000) was spent within the Philippines;
● International Co-production
Fund (ICOF): Grantees will be eligible
to receive a selective fund for international co-productions with the
Philippines that will provide cash incentives of up to 40% on the project's
qualified Philippine production expenditures with a maximum amount of PHP10
Million; and
● ASEAN Co-production Fund
(ACOF): Grantees will receive a selective fund of USD 50,000 up to USD 150,000
with fifty percent of which must be spent on qualified Philippine production
expenditures, and provided that the selected ASEAN film is a co-production with
a Filipino production company, and is helmed by a director from an ASEAN member
country (Philippines, Vietnam,
Lao PDR, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam,
and Cambodia).
The
incentives programs will have three application periods for 2022, with each one
followed by a Selection Committee deliberation the following month:
Cycle
1: February 7, 2022- March 31, 2022 (April deliberation period)
Cycle
2: May 2, 2022-July 29, 2022 (August deliberation period)
Cycle
3: September 1, 2022- November 29,2022 (December deliberation period).
Since
2020, the FilmPhilippines Incentives (FPI) has been steadfast in its goal to
promote the Philippines as a highly viable filming destination.Through these
incentives programs, the FDCP, through its FilmPhilippines Office, aims to
provide funding for domestic and international co-productions to open
opportunities for Filipino film producers to serve as line producers, partners
or co-producers for the production of quality projects, toward the goal of
fostering internationalization and continuous professional growth, create jobs
for homegrown pool of film workers, and generate revenue for service providers
in the country.
Some
of FPI’s previous grantees are Ella Arcangel: Awit ng Pangil at Kuko by Mervin Malonzo, Dancing the Tides by Xeph Suarez, Hold My Gaze by Carlo Enciso Catu, Kodokushi by Janus Victoria, Cu
Li Never Cries by Pham Ngoc Lan, Almost
Paradise by Dean Devlin, and the hit reality TV series Survivor.
ICOF
and FLIP were launched in 2019, while ACOF was inaugurated the following year
in 2020. Now on its third year, FPI comes with an updated set of guidelines
which you can download at this link along with the application form: www.filmphilippines.com. For queries and concerns
regarding the program, contact filmphilippines@fdcp.ph
Film Development
Council of the Philippines
Media Relations Unit
ADDRESS 855 T.M. Kalaw Street, Ermita, Manila, Philippines 1000
PHONE +63 2 82569958 loc. 100
E-MAIL mediadesk@fdcp.ph
WEB https://www.fdcp.ph/
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