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 a grant and are therefore not tax based.

For information on LBSP or PDV, including criteria, FAQs and application form, see the Large Budget Screen Production & PDV Grant page. 

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