www.albertafilm.ca
Alberta Film Development Program
The Alberta Film Development Program (the AFDP) provides direct grants rather than refundable tax credits. The AFDP is accessible through three funding streams based on the level of Albertan ownership and employment of Albertans in key creative positions. The AFDP will contribute between 14 and 23% of all eligible expenses incurred in Alberta, which is the equivalent of between a 25 and 42% labour tax credit. Productions are classified into three types based on the percentage of the production owned by Albertans: majority (51% or more) Albertan ownership, equal or minority (10% to 50%) Albertan ownership, and nominal (0 to 10%) Albertan ownership.
The maximum amount of funding available to any one project is $1.5 million.
Eligibility
The project must be supported by a broadcast license or a bona fide distribution agreement.
Recipients of funding under the AFDP must be incorporated in Alberta.
Funding is not available under the AFDP for productions which fall within an “excluded genre” (e.g. news reports, game shows, talk shows, etc.)
Eligible costs include all expenditures where the cost is incurred in Alberta and the value of the consumption of the goods or services is realized in Alberta.
Other Alberta Incentive Programs
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Cultural Industries Grant
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Commissions Individual Film and Video Artists Grant
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Film and Video Project Grant
Alberta Cultural Industries Association Loan Guarantee
You can find every production term definition at Quick Film Glossary.
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Showing posts with label film glossary. Show all posts
Monday, June 7, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
Tax Credit - CANADA FEDERAL
http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/cavco/pgm/cipc-cptc/cipc-cptc-eng.cfm
For a production to qualify as Canadian content for tax credit through CAVCO, the production must meet specific criteria for key creative personnel and production costs, which are outlined in our guidelines.
The CPTC is available at a rate of 25 percent of the qualified labour expenditure. Eligible salaries and wages qualifying for the tax credit may not exceed 60 percent of the cost of the production, net of assistance, as certified by the Minister of Canadian Heritage. Therefore, the tax credit could provide a maximum refund of up to 15 percent of the cost of production, net of assistance.
Look up any film words in Quick Film Glossary.
Check QuickFilmBudget.com for a sample film budget!
For a production to qualify as Canadian content for tax credit through CAVCO, the production must meet specific criteria for key creative personnel and production costs, which are outlined in our guidelines.
The CPTC is available at a rate of 25 percent of the qualified labour expenditure. Eligible salaries and wages qualifying for the tax credit may not exceed 60 percent of the cost of the production, net of assistance, as certified by the Minister of Canadian Heritage. Therefore, the tax credit could provide a maximum refund of up to 15 percent of the cost of production, net of assistance.
Look up any film words in Quick Film Glossary.
Check QuickFilmBudget.com for a sample film budget!
Thursday, June 3, 2010
FINAL DRAFT VP JOINS QFB
June 1, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FINAL DRAFT VP JOINS QUICKFILMBUDGET.COM
Los Angeles, CA — Nolan Lebovitz and Adam Lebovitz, owners and co-founders of Quick Film
Budget (QFB), have announced that Lynn Hacking has joined QFB as head of Sales &
Marketing. Formerly, Hacking was the Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Final Draft.
Hacking is considered a pioneer in entertainment industry technology and a leading proponent
for the technological advancement of the work flow for digital filmmaking worldwide.
"Everyone we queried about Mr. Hacking's performance during his thirteen year tenure at Final
Draft attributes a great deal of that company's overall success to him", says QFB's co-founder
Adam Lebovitz.
A film budget is a must have item for shopping your film project and to give your investors a
snapshot of how their money will be spent prior to the actual funding. "I came across
www.QuickFilmBudget.com while struggling with traditional budgeting software to create a
budget for my latest film's business plan. What normally takes at least ten days and costs at least
a thousand dollars was created for me in minutes, for a fraction of the cost. I immediately turned
a few of my working film producer buddies on to Quick Film Budget and they were equally as
impressed. I'm quite sure that we will make Quick Film Budget the new standard for creating
budgets and, by having the capacity to export the preliminary budget into the larger, more costly
stand alone budgeting software packages once the project has been funded, we have created a
"front door", which points to those more detailed and complex packages and their payroll
services. We have not only created a cost saving convenience for every budgeted entertainment
project, but a revolutionary new tool that points to the larger companies and their services. They
should love us," explains Mr. Hacking.
QFB recently announced that their PDF format is now available in modifiable files as Microsoft
Excel or Entertainment Partner's Movie Magic Budgeting. QFB's revolutionary approach to
budgeting from a "top down" matrix is presently endorsed by several insurance companies and is
already being considered by bonding companies. Mr. Hacking adds: "Life just got a lot easier
for Producers, who traditionally pull out their hair or their wallets creating a budget for shopping
their film projects. Our goal is to make QFB the 'front end' to the top, but costly, complicated
and time-consuming budgeting software packages and the still widely-used Excel format. We
will reach out to all companies that make budgeting software technology and the various
organizations, such as the Producer's Guild, to ensure that QFB becomes the new standard for
creating film budgets. QFB is the new tool that saves Producers the most important commodities
in film - both TIME and MONEY. "
-END-
For media inquiries, please contact:
Adam Lebovitz
Quick Film Budget, Inc.
310-927-2678
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FINAL DRAFT VP JOINS QUICKFILMBUDGET.COM
Los Angeles, CA — Nolan Lebovitz and Adam Lebovitz, owners and co-founders of Quick Film
Budget (QFB), have announced that Lynn Hacking has joined QFB as head of Sales &
Marketing. Formerly, Hacking was the Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Final Draft.
Hacking is considered a pioneer in entertainment industry technology and a leading proponent
for the technological advancement of the work flow for digital filmmaking worldwide.
"Everyone we queried about Mr. Hacking's performance during his thirteen year tenure at Final
Draft attributes a great deal of that company's overall success to him", says QFB's co-founder
Adam Lebovitz.
A film budget is a must have item for shopping your film project and to give your investors a
snapshot of how their money will be spent prior to the actual funding. "I came across
www.QuickFilmBudget.com while struggling with traditional budgeting software to create a
budget for my latest film's business plan. What normally takes at least ten days and costs at least
a thousand dollars was created for me in minutes, for a fraction of the cost. I immediately turned
a few of my working film producer buddies on to Quick Film Budget and they were equally as
impressed. I'm quite sure that we will make Quick Film Budget the new standard for creating
budgets and, by having the capacity to export the preliminary budget into the larger, more costly
stand alone budgeting software packages once the project has been funded, we have created a
"front door", which points to those more detailed and complex packages and their payroll
services. We have not only created a cost saving convenience for every budgeted entertainment
project, but a revolutionary new tool that points to the larger companies and their services. They
should love us," explains Mr. Hacking.
QFB recently announced that their PDF format is now available in modifiable files as Microsoft
Excel or Entertainment Partner's Movie Magic Budgeting. QFB's revolutionary approach to
budgeting from a "top down" matrix is presently endorsed by several insurance companies and is
already being considered by bonding companies. Mr. Hacking adds: "Life just got a lot easier
for Producers, who traditionally pull out their hair or their wallets creating a budget for shopping
their film projects. Our goal is to make QFB the 'front end' to the top, but costly, complicated
and time-consuming budgeting software packages and the still widely-used Excel format. We
will reach out to all companies that make budgeting software technology and the various
organizations, such as the Producer's Guild, to ensure that QFB becomes the new standard for
creating film budgets. QFB is the new tool that saves Producers the most important commodities
in film - both TIME and MONEY. "
-END-
For media inquiries, please contact:
Adam Lebovitz
Quick Film Budget, Inc.
310-927-2678
Monday, November 23, 2009
Film vs. Video
Will it be cheaper if I shoot digitally vs. film? Not always. The key factors for deciding whether to shoot on film or video is 1) how much film are you going to shoot? 2) What will you output to? Creatively, what is the best look? Does your movie have many exterior day scenes? If you are shooting a documentary, you will probably shoot a ton of film or maybe you have a director that shoots a lot of takes. If these are true, then the cost of developing film to your movie budget will be much greater than video which has no cost to develop. But if you plan to shoot a short film or have a director who shoots with great efficiency than the cost to develop the film will be the same as the DI and all of the other treatments to make video look like film. Creatively, if your film is all about beautiful sunsets or the water, then shooting video will not look real as video has a tough time dealing with the brilliant colors and texture of sunlight and water.
For a film glossary check www.quickfilmbudget.com
For a film glossary check www.quickfilmbudget.com
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