Tax incentives can make or break a film budget, but they're often hard to track. Goldenrod helps producers uncover available incentives and see how they affect cash flow, timing, and overall financing.
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What if you could have real-time financial feedback on all aspects of your production? Taking the guesswork out of where you stand in the process, empowering you with the ability to course-correct to remain compliant for film incentives, helping you avoid budget shortfalls, and providing resources to crews and vendors in order to increase your spending and incentive amount.
Our proprietary consulting and compliance platform helps you see the full picture of your production, all through simple data visualization. From Escrow to CAMA, from first money in to last money out, you’ll know the role of every dollar.
Like having the best seat in the house to your film’s finances. Bring some popcorn.
We specialize in a three-phrase approach to make the most of your potential incentive money.
Before a shoot begins, we're consulting on how to maximize the available incentives, which may require changing locations, schedules or other elements to fully maximize those opportunities.
There are many opportunties to consider, and we're here to help find what best serves your story.
During production, we're taking all the relevant data into our platform, making sure the filmmakers are staying ahead of issues and staying compliant in real time.
We provide continuing guidance with a human touch to ensure the project is recouping as much of their potential incentive money as possible. It takes a team, and we're on yours.
Because we're on top of compliance throughout, we can turn around the submittal quickly once the project is delivered. We then would provide any support through a jurisdiction's audit process. The goal of our submittal phase is really to package things up in a way that makes the film commission's life as easy as possible, so the filmmaker gets their money back as quickly as possible.
Frequently Asked Questions
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On set, you’ll often hear: “We’re on goldenrod” — the color of a late-stage script revision and a sign that the story is moving towards its final form. For the cast and crew, it’s about clear direction and progress. For our company, it’s that exact same role. The Goldenrod platform streamlines the filmmaking process through a clear, holistic view of finances during a production.
In a fragmented and frustrating system, we offer:
Clarity from development to distribution.
Transparency in process, information, and operations.
Opportunity in finding and unlocking incentive money.
A team of film industry veterans with experience in everything from international wide releases to premieres at prestigious festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, and others.
We’re filmmakers, born from the independent film community. As such, we’re uniquely suited to understand what’s needed for incentive eligibility, compliance, and maximizing your budget. In other words, we’re here to help you find the right way forward in your film journey — saving money and time that belongs in your feature.
First and foremost, Goldenrod is human. That is, it’s a team of industry experts helping you maximize and maintain eligibility for film incentives. Our proprietary incentives consulting and compliance platform helps collate data, offers full-spectrum visibility, and allows you to course-correct in production so you can capitalize on your investment. Think of it as one of those online tax software programs — with film veterans helping you every step of the way.
Every budget is unique and we’re here to help maximize yours. One thing’s for certain, it’s costly to learn by doing it wrong.
Book a consultation for a clear picture of how Goldenrod can help make the most of your incentives.
In order to encourage filmmakers to shoot within their state, some governments offer rebates and tax incentives for a portion of the production costs. But the process of applying for those incentives can be cumbersome and complex. Even once approved, ongoing compliance is crucial. Starting in pre-production and all the way through post and distribution, Goldenrod helps filmmakers fine-tune decisions to maximize their benefit. Book a consultation and learn more about our three-phase approach.
We’re ready to roll. Book a consultation and start your film journey “on goldenrod.”
Talk to the team about getting the financial tools and support you need across every step of the filmmaking journey.
