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.
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