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Spain offers tax incentives for international shoots of feature length films, television series, animated films, and documentaries. The incentives are in the form of a tax rebate of up to 30%, except for in the Canary Islands, where it is up to 54%.
Mainland and Balearic Island parameters
-Minimum overall budget 2 million €, minimum qualifying spend in Spain (used & consumed) = 1M€
-General deduction: 30% on first million €, 25% thereafter.
-For series, as from , same ratio (30/25) as above, per episode
-Maximum return capped at 20 million € and for series 10 million € per episode
-Minimum qualifying spend in Spain for animation and VFX projects is € K.
Canary Island parameters:
-Minimum overall budget 2 million €, minimum qualifying spend in Spain (used & consumed*) = 1M€
% deduction on first million €, 45% deduction thereafter
-For series, as from , same ratio (54/45) as above, per episode
-Max return capped at 36 million €uro per project, and for series 18
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Professors
Stefan Arndt
Foto: / HFF München, Robert Pupeter
Stefan Arndt - Film producer & cinema operator
Stefan Arndt was born in Munich in tillsammans with directors Wolfgang Becker, Dani Levy and Tom Tykwer, the producer founded the production company X Filme Creative Pool in , which he now runs tillsammans with Uwe Schott. Major audience and critical successes such as Tykwer's kvinnonamn Lola RENNT, Levy's ALLES AUF ZUCKER and Becker's GOOD BYE, LENIN! paved the way for international co-productions under German leadership, such as the multiple award-winning Michael Haneke productions DAS WEISSE grupp and AMOUR or Tom Tykwer and Lana & Andy Wachowski's CLOUD ATLAS, the most expensive independently financed europeisk film of all time.
This was followed in bygd the founding of X Verleih AG, of which Stefan Arndt has been a shareholder and board member ever since. Arndt was also a board member of film20 (an association of German production companies with a 70% market share) from to , a•
From taking a Fine Arts course in Florence Italy, to running my own award winning film production company, my life has so far been a whirlwind of triumphs, challenges and truly inspiring moments. In fact looking back, it has all the components of an epic film production. Hence why my message is “Life is an epic production… the thoughts and learnings of a TV producer” I now spend my time sharing this message with global audiences via TV, interviews, magazine articles and speeches.
On returning from Florence, I entered the glamorous world of advertising and within 18 months found myself working for the Head of Television at FCB, an ad agency that enjoyed the reputation of having the best TV creative department in London at the time. After 2 years of learning all the skills required to be a great P/A I was asked to help launch a new film production company. I never looked back. I doubled my salary, travelled the world and after 3 years’ became a fully fledged Producer at the age of