The Regional Incentive attracts production to regional Queensland. The program is aimed at increasing the level of production, industry skill level and employment as well as screen industry activity in regional Queensland.

Screen Queensland’s Regional Incentive aims to support the growth of the screen industry in regional Queensland (areas more than 150km outside of the major metropolitan hubs of Brisbane and the City of Gold Coast).

The Regional Incentive aims to:

• attract production to regional Queensland
• showcase diverse regional stories and locations across Queensland
• give the 33% of Queenslanders who live outside the major cities the opportunity to see themselves and their perspectives on screen
• create employment opportunities for creatives, cast and crew living in regional areas, and from 2022
• target Cairns and North Queensland with a view to supporting the region’s new production facility, Screen Queensland Studios Cairns.

Funding

The incentive will be up to 10% of Qualifying Regional Expenditure (QRE) in Queensland capped at $100,000.

Projects also applying through Screen Finance may also apply for a regional incentive of 5% of QRE capped at $100,000.

QRE is made up of:

• Fees paid to people who have been residents of the relevant regional area for at least six months prior to the application, and
• Expenditure with suppliers and businesses based in the relevant regional area.

Funding is in the form of a grant, payable after production has taken place and on delivery of a full audit of expenditure and acquittal of contracted delivery items.

Funding is competitive within a limited and highly targeted program.

Screen Queensland encourages applications from teams that will use the Screen Queensland Studios Cairns production facilities.

The program aims to deliver benefits to people from all backgrounds with a focus on diversity and inclusion to provide opportunities to all. Screen Queensland encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from all under-represented backgrounds.

Successful applicants agree to register the production to The Everyone Project (include link) and, with appropriate consent, provide the names, roles and contact details of the production, cast and crew so that they may be invited to participate in voluntary, de-identified demographic surveys.

Who can apply?

When assessing your proposal we’ll use the below criteria.

The Regional Incentive is open for applications to anyone who is producing a screen story in regional Queensland, and will

• Spend more than $100,000 of Qualifying Regional Expenditure (QRE) in regional Queensland
• Film in a regional location for a minimum of five days.

Eligible screen stories will include: fiction feature film or series, documentary feature film or series, factual entertainment series (including reality).

Ineligible screen stories include: sports and current affairs programs, short films (less than 60 minutes), community television, student films. 

• Phone: 07 3248 0500
• Email: content@screenqld.com.au