Slovakia offers a 33% cash rebate on expenses spent on film or TV production.

Minimum expenses required for a cash rebate are as follows:

300,000 EUR for TV features (or series), slates of films (max. 3 films per slate) spent in the Slovak Republic over a period of 3 years, after project registration.

100,000 EUR for individual feature films, documentary films and animated films, spent in the Slovak Republic over a period of 3 years, after project registration.

After registering the project, the producer will receive a registration certificate (which shall be delivered to the applicant company within 30 days after the project registration).

The eligibility period of expenses (3 years) starts upon the issuance of the certificate.

The cash rebate is payable after the applicant has paid all eligible costs and delivered the final balance sheet along with the auditor’s report.

The deadline for the registration of all projects is every August 31st of the respective year.

Upon completion of the production, the applicant needs to conduct an independent audit demonstrating the eligible costs incurred, and includes co-production or service agreements, and other documents.

The cash rebate will be issued after the documentation and information has been received and everything checks out.

Loyzo Films® is ready to do the footwork for you.

Email us to request a detailed Production Hanbook.

Hungary offers a 30% cash rebate on expenses spent on film or TV production in Hungary. The incentive is available through a local business company. Up to 25% of the eligible spenditure may be foreign spenditure.

All direct film production costs are eligible except those excluded by the film law which are as follows:

• Part of copyright costs over 4% of the Budget;
• Travel costs are limited to trips from and to Hungary, with stopovers possible;
• P&A is limited up to 2% of the Budget, however maxed out at 5M HUF (roughly 17K USD);
• Costs of services delivered by non-Hungarian subcontractors are limited up to 25% of eligible Hungarian spenditure.

Upon completion of the production, the applicant needs to conduct an independent audit demonstrating the eligible costs incurred, and includes co-production or service agreements, and other documents.

The cash rebate will be issued after the documentation and information has been received and everything checks out.

Loyzo Films® is ready to do the footwork for you.

Email us to request a detailed Production Hanbook.

“The most important thing in the Olympic games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”

– Pierre de Coubertin

THE FINAL MILE is a strikingly original screenplay from producer Loyzo Smolinsky, directed by Golden Globe Award®-nominated, Italian director Franco Nero, based on the true story of elite marathon runner Vanderlei de Lima and the events of the 2004 Olympic Marathon in Athens, Greece.

The music for THE FINAL MILE will be composed by Brazilian Academy Award® nominee Carlinhos Brown, under the cinematic vision of our Swiss Director of Photography Ueli Steiger. The visual effects are helmed by Gerardo Surzin, the former Art Director and VFX Feature Film Supervisor of Double Negative™.

THE FINAL MILE takes an in-depth, original, brutally honest and intimate look into Vanderlei de Lima’s life. It evolves into a suspenseful, superhero drama journeying into the deepest parts of his soul, touching us all in a celebration of human will, endurance and way of life.