Incentives and opportunities for filming

Incentives and
opportunities for filming
2016, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Tenerife, a natural set. Why?
•  Climate, film all year round
•  Diverse landscapes, the island of stunning
locations
•  Excellent hotels and services
•  Getting here: Direct flights & major ports
•  Crew support. Experienced professionals
Content
Incentives, excellent tax benefits
The best in Europe
•  38-40% tax rate deduction for Spanish productions
•  35% tax rebate for foreign productions
•  Canaries Special Zone 4% corporate tax
•  Canaries Investment Reserve. Pay up to 90% less tax , then investment
New for animation
•  Data center and high-performance computer for
animation
•  Motion capture
Tenerife, a natural set
Why?
1,000 productions since 2000
1.  “Clash of the Titans”
2.  “Wrath of the Titans”
3.  “Fast & Furious 6”
4.  “Jason Bourne”
Roques de Anaga
Punta
del Hidalgo
TAGANANA
Punta
de Anaga
Valle Guerra
IGUESTE
Warner Bros Pictures; Universal Pictures;
Endemol; advertising agencies, photographers…
SAN ANDRÉS
Playa de las Teresitas
LA LAGUNA
TACORONTE
EL SAUZAL
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE
PUERTO DE LA CRUZ
BUENAVISTA
DEL NORTE
Punta
de Teno
LA ESPERANZA
GARACHICO
3.
Macizo
de
Teno
RADAZUL
ICOD DE LOS VINOS
LOS REALEJOS
LA OROTAVA
CANDELARIA
!
2.
GÜÍMAR
SANTIAGO
DEL TEIDE
3.
LOS GIGANTES
Tenerife
Norte
PUERTO SANTIAGO
Playa de la Arena
Pico del
Teide
3.718 m
1.
2.
GUÍA DE ISORA
PLAYA DE SAN JUAN
ARICO
VILAFLOR
Punta
de Abona
GRANADILLA
Playa Fañabé
ADEJE
COSTA ADEJE
ARONA
SAN MIGUEL
PLAYA DE LAS AMÉRICAS
Playa de las Vistas
PLAYA DE
LOS CRISTIANOS
Punta
de la Rasca
Aeropuerto
Tenerife Sur
COSTA DEL SILENCIO
LAS GALLETAS
2.
Tenerife, a natural set. Why?
Climate, film all
year round
• 23 °C average annual temperature
• Film outdoors 365 days a year
• Unbeatable light conditions and 3,000
hours of sunshine
Tenerife, a natural set. Why?
Diverse Landscapes
Unexpected
Astonishing
2,034 km2
48% Nature Reserve
On the road
Tenerife, a natural set. Why?
Diverse
Landscapes
Colonial
On the coast
Natural
Tenerife, a natural set. Why?
Excellent Hotels
Tenerife hosts the largest
hotel chains
Category
1% Hotels *
2% Hotels **
12% Hotels ***
40% Hotels ****
10% Hotels *****
35% Apartments
Tourists
35,560
101,569
600,701
1,941,222
494,426
1,727,339
132,016 beds
5,145,000 accommodated tourists
Tenerife, a natural set. Why?
Getting here
• Two international airports with over 12.6 million passengers a year
• Connected with 164 airports
• Over 100 airlines operate on the island
• Between 2 and 4 hour flight to mainland Spain and Europe
• Two major ports, plus over 15 marinas
Tenerife, a natural set. Why?
Crew support,
Experienced professionals
• Film companies and production services
• Film equipment rental: lighting, grips…
• Specialized services: security, catering, legal advisors
• Actors
• International extras
• Television studios
• Film Commission
• 2D and 3D animation (modeling, rigging, animation and motion capture)
• Audiovisual cluster
Incentives, excellent tax benefits
The best in Europe
Excellent tax benefits
The best in Europe
38-40%
tax credit
per investment
in Spanish
productions
REF
Canary Islands
Economic and
Fiscal Regime*
35%
tax rebate for
foreign
productions
ZEC
Canaries
Special
Zone
RIC
Canaries
Investment
Reserve
IGIC~VAT
7%
* RDL 15/2014, 19th December, ammending the Canary Islands Economic and Fiscal Regime
** Law 27/2014, 27th November, Corporate Income Tax
Incentives, excellent tax benefits The best in Europe 38-40%
tax credit per investment in Spanish productions and coproductions
• Investments in production of feature films, TV series, animation and documentaries
• 40% allowance for the first million € of the budget and 38% tax rate deduction for the rest of the
production budget
• Maximum deduction will be 5.4 million €
• Producer and investor must reside in the Canary Islands
• Canaries Audiovisual Work Certificate, Spanish Nationality and cultural test are required
• The Spanish film incentive 20-18% deduction with a limit of 3 million € is improved in the Canary
Islands thanks to the Canary Island Economic and Tax System
Incentives, excellent tax benefits
The best in Europe Canaries Audiovisual Work
Certificate
• Spanish nationality (Spanish Film Act)
· Film a minimum of two weeks in the Canaries, interiors or exteriors,
except for:
- Animation: 20% of production time in the Canary Islands
- Documentaries: no minimum time
- Short films: 50% of shooting time in the Canary Islands
- TV Series: 20% of the season to be filmed in the Canary Islands
Incentives, excellent tax benefits
The best in Europe Canaries Audiovisual
Work Certificate
• Hire local professionals: Minimum one head of department, a
lead or support actor resident in the Canary Islands
• If co-production, the Canary producer must contribute over
20% of the production’s cost
• If financial co-production, the Canary co-producer must
contribute between 10% and 25% of the production’s cost
• The production company based in the Canary Islands has to
apply for the certificate and must be listed in the Canaries
Audiovisual Companies Registry
Incentives, excellent tax benefits
The best in Europe 35%
tax rebate for foreign productions
• Producers providing services to foreign films
• 35 % tax rebate from production expenses in the Canary Islands
• Minimum expenditure: 1 million Euros
• Qualifying expenditure in the Canary Islands directly related to the production:
-  Creative crew with residence in the EEC 50,000€ / person
-  Expenditure on technical industries and other suppliers
• Maximum deduction will be 4.5 million €
• Local production or service production company must be tax resident in the Canary Islands
• The Spanish film incentive 15% deduction with a limit of 2.5 million € is improved in the Canary Islands
thanks to the Canary Island Economic and Tax System
Incentives, excellent tax benefits
The best in Europe Canaries Special Zone (ZEC)
Corporate tax only 4%
Instead of 25-30% in Europe
ZEC companies can use 35% tax rebate
Conditions:
•  Create a new company
•  Minimum investment of 100,000 € in fixed assets within two years of the
company's ZEC registration
•  Creation of 5 jobs within the first six months of activity and keep this
average
•  At least one of the directors must reside in the Canary Islands
•  The activity has to be authorized for the ZEC zone, which includes the
audiovisual industry.
Corporate taxes
in the different European
countries
France
Belgium
Italy
Spain
Germany
Luxembourg
UK
Portugal
Switzerland
Ireland
34,4%
34%
31,4%
30%
30%
29%
28%
27%
26%
12,5%
Tenerife
4%
Incentives, excellent tax benefits
The best in Europe
Canaries Investment
Reserve (RIC)
• Pay up to 90% less tax through investment
10%
Profits before
tax
90%
The RIC funds can be invested
in audiovisual productions
provided that they obtain the
Canaries Audiovisual Work
certificate.
Reserve for investments
(tax free)
New for animation
NAP,thefacility
Neutral Internet Access Point (NAP):
• Tier III+ level of security in power supply and refrigeration
• 2 2500-KVA generators with fuel supply for 72 hours
• Double Medium Voltage electrical power connection (20 KV)
• Separate electric circuits for IT and auxiliary services
(refrigeration, lighting, security, etc.)
• A+B feed from electrical power connection to client’s
equipment totally differentiated. 100% renewable energy. 400
KW photovoltaic plant on roof
user
undersea
cable
Guarantee of security TIER III+
New for animation
High speed
submarine cable
Canalink System
• Submarine cable from mainland Spain to the Canary Islands, also
linking several islands
• RedIRIS connectivity provider, national communication
network for R&D centres, with connection to the GÉANT European
network
• Canalink system total capacity: 8 Tbps with current technology
• Participation in submarine cable consortia along
the West African coast. (ACE, MST)
Example:
Sending a file with the day’s shooting to a postproduction company on the other side of the world.
Network – 10Gb
Director in London = 2 minutes*
*Depending on the downloading capacity at destination.
New for animation
HPC-Teide
High Performance Computer
370,000
times faster than
conventional home PCs
35,000
times more memory
• Ranks 138 in the Top 500 list. Spain‘s second most powerful computer.
• 1,100 Fujitsu CX250 servers, with Intel Xeon E5 2670 double processor.
• Specific 10 Gbps network for node interconnection and storage with 40 Gbps
backbone.
• QDR Infiniband network for HPC applications
• 500 TB Net storage
• Full redundancy (Power supply, storage cabinets, networks, etc.)
• The system design allows fast node deployment for specific applications
New for animation
Examples of use
Rendering services
Internal rendering for companies
Nodes
20
50
100
200
Processing Time
1,656 days (4.5 years)
662 days (1.8 years)
331 days (11 months)
166 days (6 months)
Rendering through the HPC is much faster and there is no need to invest in
systems or suffer deployment delays.
Render HPC 100%
Nodes
1,100
Processing Time
30.1 days
New for animation
Examples of use
Rendering services
SIMPLIFYING:
• The DataCenter is managed by specialized
technicians with no direct investment required
• The producer can control rendering in real time
• Rendering is launched from your own computer
without adapting scenes. Online security (TIER III+)
• Support services and licences included (Arnold
Render)
CHANGE IN THE BUSINESS MODEL:
• From investment-repayment >>>>>> Pay per use
>>>> Cost and financial risk reduction
New for animation
MOTION CAPTURE
Animatica Foundation
MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM:
• 24 cameras and up to 4 actors in 15 x 15 m
• Active Led system
• Real time sessions with outside directing
• Data capturing and filtering
3D Services:
• Modelling, rigging, animation
Actors, models and extras
Audiovisual Equipment Rental
Consultancy and advisory firms
BEWATERAGENCY
T. 00 34 660 028 560
info@bewateragency.es
www.bewateragency.es
AIRMEDIA 360
T. 00 34 682 142 626
info@airmedia360.com
www.airmedia360.com
ASSAP
T. 00 34 922 288 527
info@assap.es
www.assap.es
ALUZINE
T. 00 34 607 563 250
atlantico@aluzine.tv
www.aluzine.tv
DYRECTO
T. 00 34 922 882 360
dyrecto@dyrecto.es
www.dyrecto.es
EPC CANARIAS
T. 00 34 638 037 638
canarias@epc.es
www.epc.es
ERNST & YOUNG ABOGADOS
T. 00 34 922 244 717
julio.mendezcalderin@es.ey.com
www.ey.com
SEVEN ISLANDS FILM*
T. 00 34 922 274 457
info@7ifilm.com
www.7ifilm.com
STUDIO INDIE
T. 00 34 661 490 352
luisfanjul@studioindie.com
www.studioindie.com
EUROFIRMS
T. 00 34 922 790 905
loscristianos@eurofirms.es
www.eurofirms.es
INTESA FILM
T. 00 34 922 504 258
films@intesacanarias.com
www.intesacanarias.com
PERSONAL 7 AUDIOVISUAL
T. 00 34 922 284 544
personal7tnf@grupoconstant.com
www.grupoconstant.com
RUTH FRANCO MANAGEMENT
T. 00 34 647 556 851
canarias@ruthfranco.es
www.ruthfranco.com
Catering
TOMA-TE CATERING
T. 00 34 922 274 457
info@toma-te.com
www.toma-te.com
Want to know more? *This company has the annual Coast Film Permit.
Film Friendly Hotels
Post Production
HOTEL BARCELÓ SANTA CRUZ
CONTEMPORÁNEO
T. 00 34 922 271 571
santacruzcontemporaneo@barcelo.com
www.barcelosantacruzcontemporaneo.com
TLAB T. 00 34 681 629 651
v.calo@tlab.es
www.tlab.es
HOTEL BOTÁNICO
T. 00 34 922 381 400
hotelbotanico@hotelbotanico.com
www.hotelbotanico.com
HOTEL TABURIENTE
T. 00 34 922 276 000
reservas@hoteltaburiente.com
www.hoteltaburiente.com
Production Companies
AEROMEDIA UAV
T. 00 34 661 706 807
david.garcia@aeromedia.es
www.aeromedia.es
PANTALLA CANARIA
T. 00 34 922 210 290
info@pantallacanaria.com
www.pantallacanaria.com
VOLCANO FILMS*
T. 00 34 922 285 160
volcanofilms@volcanofilms.com
www.volcanofilms.com
MIRAMAR MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT
T. 00 34 651 629 577
contacto@miramarentertainment.com
www.miramarentertainment.com
PLATÓ DEL ATLANTICO
T. 00 34 922 472 700
info@platodelatlantico.tv
www.platodelatlantico.tv
Want to know more? *This company has the annual Coast Film Permit.
A PRODUCTIONS
T. 00 34 922 098 020
info@aproductions360.com
www.aproductions360.com
ATLANTIC VOLCANO FILMS*
T. 00 34 922 285 160
volcanofilms@volcanofilms.com
www.volcanofilms.com
BEWATERAGENCY
T. 00 34 660 028 560
info@bewateragency.es
www.bewateragency.es
BLACKSTONE FILM COMPANY*
T. 00 34 922 739 916
service@blackstonefilm.com
www.blackstonefilm.com
BOUDIKA PRODUCTIONS*
T. 00 34 658 582 923
info@boudika.es
www.boudika.es
CANARYFILMLOCATIONS*
T. 00 34 663 571 561
info@canaryfilmlocations.com
www.canaryfilmlocations.com
CANARY PRODUCTIONS*
T. 00 34 687 617 400
info@canary-productions.com
www.canary-productions.com
Want to know more? FESTEAM COMUNICACIÓN Y
EVENTOS
T. 00 34 607 933 219
direccion@festeam.net
www.festeam.net
FILM! CANARYISLANDS*
T. 00 34 667 774 567
norbert@filmcanaryislands.com
www.filmcanaryislands.com
MIRAMAR MEDIA
ENTERTAINMENT
T. 00 34 651 629 577
contacto@miramarentertainment.com
www.miramarentertainment.com
*This company has the annual Coast Film Permit.
PANTALLA CANARIA
T. 00 34 922 210 290
info@pantallacanaria.com
www.pantallacanaria.com
SEVEN ISLANDS FILM*
T. 00 34 922 274 457
info@7ifilm.com
www.7ifilm.com
SUR-FILM
PRODUCTION & SERVICES*
T. 00 34 922 177 655
info@sur-film.com
www.sur-film.com
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Security
Special location
Vehicle Rental
TENSERVICES SEGURIDAD
T. 00 34 922 299 321
administracion@tenservices.es
www.tenservices.es
AUDITORIO DE TENERIFE
"ADÁN MARTÍN"
T. 00 34 922 568 603
localizaciones@auditoriodetenerife.com
www.auditoriodetenerife.com
ARCHIPIÉLAGO RENTING
T. 00 34 922 207 273
administracion@archipielagorenting.com
www.archipielagorenting.com
URANO SERVICIOS
GENERALES SLU
T. 00 34 608 823 652
uranoslu@hotmail.es
Studios
PLATÓ DEL ATLANTICO
T. 00 34 922 472 700
info@platodelatlantico.tv
www.platodelatlantico.tv
JOCAR
T. 00 34 922 254 222
jocar@autosjocar.com
www.autosjocar.com
Want to know more? Our contact TENERIFE FILM COMMISSION
+ 34 922 236 962
+ 34 647 346 462
www.tenerifefilm.com
film@webtenerife.com