Australia × Hungary.
How to structure a Australia–Hungary film or TV co-production: stack Hungary's 30–37.5% cash rebate with Australia's incentives (30% Location Offset (+ PDV/state)). Worked $10M example, location strategy and a calculator.
Structuring a Australia–Hungary co-production
Australia's Location Offset rose to 30% and stacks with state and post incentives. An Australia–Hungary structure gives you two well-incentivized, English-language-friendly floors on opposite sides of the world.
The incentive stack
Australia's Location Offset is a 30% federal rebate for large-budget productions, with the PDV Offset and state incentives (NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia) stacking further. Paired with Hungary's 37.5%, both legs are strongly incentivized.
Worked example — a $10M budget
| Leg | Spend | Rate | Return |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hungary (60%) | $6,000,000 | 37.5% | $2,250,000 |
| Australia (40%) | $4,000,000 | 30% | $1,200,000 |
| Combined | $10,000,000 | 34.5% eff. | $3,450,000 |
Indicative only. Real numbers depend on the qualifying-spend split, treaty status and points tests in each territory. Bonuses and top-ups (e.g. Telefilm, regional funds, labor uplifts) can raise the Australia figure further.
Locations: who shoots what
Australia delivers contemporary cities, outback, reef and coast; Hungary provides European period, palaces and studio scale. The time-zone split can also keep a production and its post moving around the clock.
How Dopamine runs it
As your Hungarian partner — Dopamine Ventures Kft. is a registered Hungarian company — we structure the Hungarian leg to 37.5%, run the cultural test, and coordinate with your Australia partner and its funding bodies so the two incentives are additive rather than in conflict. And we can arrange to finance the Hungarian rebate upfront. Model this structure in the calculator →
Questions producers ask us
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