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13.10.2023 - 11:49 / variety.com
Marta Balaga Finland’s industry is ready to appeal to the government as the future of a film and TV production incentive is under threat, with a 25% cash rebate levied on spend on foreign and Finnish shoots in the country conspicuously absent from a provisional budget for 2024, announced Monday. “People have been hopeful, so they didn’t want to believe in what the government has been saying. For the whole autumn, we kept hearing they will cut the incentives altogether and that our budget at the Foundation will be cut by a few per cent.
The final decision was made on Monday,” said Finnish Film Foundation CEO Lasse Saarinen. “All these years when we had the incentives, we had opposition in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. These officials just didn’t like the idea,” he noted.
But the fight isn’t over just yet. “I will speak to the Minister of Culture soon and we will make public statements about it. They argue these cuts are necessary, because the state ‘loans’ too much money in general.
But our support and incentives actually bring in money,” he adds, calling the decision “bad timing.” “At the same time when we have ‘incentive wars’ in Europe, with every country trying to one up the other, this happens. It takes a long time to make a country known this way, to show people what are the possibilities to shoot. And now, once we have been recognized, they cut it?” As the parliament will go over the decision next, there is a “slight” possibility something will change, says Saarinen.
“It’s so ridiculous to cut it altogether. They have to change their mind.” Fanny Heinonen, director of Film Tampere, adds: “The worst-case scenario? That this proposal would be final. In that case, it would be the end of trust in
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