Incentives

New Zealand offers two types of production incentives:

• The Large Budget Screen Production (LBSP) & Post/Digital/Visual Effects (PDV) incentive has no cultural test.
• The Screen Production Incentive Fund (SPIF) is designed to assist domestic film and television productions that contain significant New Zealand content.

Both are based on qualifying New Zealand production expenditure (QNZPE).

Both incentives are paid to qualifying productions as grants and are not tax based.

For information on the LBSP and PDV incentives and for copies of the criteria, frequently asked questions and the application forms, see the Large Budget Screen Production & PDV Grant page. 

For information on SPIF and for copies of the criteria, guidelines on significant New Zealand content and applications forms see the Screen Production Incentive Fund page.