FDCP'S SEND OFF MEDIA CON FOR BUSAN DELEGATES

Also happening this week at the Busan International Film Festival and Asian Film Market, in Busan, South Korea is the soft launch of FilmPhilippines, FDCP’s new film location incentive program aimed at encouraging international film productions to shoot and work in the Philippines. FilmPhilippines will give financial support to both international productions and co-productions with Filipino producers, who will spend at least 8million pesos in the Philippines for their film production and post-production.  FDCP Chair Liza Dino-Seguerra foresees not just a surge in tourism revenues and business investments months after this incentive program is launched, but also heightened artistic and technical exchange between Filipino film workers and the rest of the world’s film professionals. The FilmPhilippines Film Location Incentive Program (FLIP) and the FilMPhilippines International Co-Prod Fund (ICOF) will be introduced to world filmmakers and producers in Busan this year. FilmPhilippines Executive Director for FDCP, David Fabros expects inquiries to rush in as early as November this year after the program is promoted, as the new incentives will positively complement the government’s already existing inter-agency one-stop-shop assistance for filmmaking in the country. All details about the FilmPhilippines Incentive can be found at www.filmphilippines.com .