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Our scoring engine evaluates every country across 5 pillars, weighted by what matters most to your production.
We look at each country's best available rebate or tax credit and calculate what it's actually worth for your budget. We exclude grants, fee waivers, and non-cash incentives — only real money back.
We also estimate your local crew costs and accommodation costs based on real rate data, then subtract the rebate to get your net below-the-line cost. Countries are ranked relative to each other — the cheapest option scores 100, the most expensive scores 0.
💡 A 40% rebate in a cheap country can beat a 50% rebate in an expensive one.
We match every location in your script against each country's real terrain and geography data — deserts, forests, mountains, coastlines, urban areas. Each location gets a strategy: practical (film on real terrain), virtual production (LED volume), set build (backlot), or VFX extension.
If your story is culturally specific (e.g. set in a particular country or culture), we apply a cultural proximity penalty. Countries that share cultural traits with your story get a smaller penalty. Countries with no connection get a larger one. You can't fake cultural authenticity.
💡 A country that can shoot 80% of your locations practically will score higher than one that needs VFX for everything.
We count sound stages, measure the largest stage, check for post-production facilities and virtual production (LED volume) capability. We also match your script's department needs (VFX, stunts, prosthetics, etc.) against the country's available crew specialties.
We also factor in national infrastructure quality using World Bank data: electricity access, broadband penetration, and logistics performance. A country with unreliable power or poor connectivity will score lower even if it has great studios.
💡 A country with 200 stages, every department covered, and strong national infrastructure scores near 100.
Four factors: permit speed (faster = better), language match (does the local crew speak your production language?), travel connectivity (how easy is it to get cast, crew, and equipment in and out?), and corruption level (World Bank data — low corruption means permits are processed reliably).
💡 A country where permits take 7 days, everyone speaks English, and the government is transparent scores much higher than one with 45-day permits and bureaucratic uncertainty.
Based on political stability (World Bank), safety (Global Peace Index 2024, 70 countries), and corruption (World Bank Control of Corruption). Weighted 30% stability, 45% safety, 25% corruption. Countries with high natural disaster risk get an additional 15% penalty.
If your script is set in a specific country or culture, we apply a two-part cultural proximity penalty that affects both the Location pillar score and the overall Total score. This prevents a financially attractive but culturally wrong country from ranking #1.
We group countries into 14 cultural affinity groups (e.g. Anglosphere, Mediterranean, Nordic, East Asian, Latin America). If your story is set in Japan and a country shares the East Asian affinity, it gets a smaller penalty than a country with no cultural connection at all.
How the penalty works: Two penalties stack. First, up to 25 points are deducted from the Location pillar score. Second, the weighted total score is multiplied down by up to 15%. Combined, a country with zero cultural connection loses roughly 21% of its effective score.
Countries flagged as culturally mismatched show a ⚠ warning in the rankings table. The AI report also calls this out explicitly.
💡 Only a direct cultural match gets 100% proximity. Even close cultural relatives are capped at 70% — because audiences notice the difference.
Each pillar produces a score from 0–100. We multiply by the weight and add them up. The AI report then reviews the top results and may recommend a different country than the #1 score — because some things (like cultural authenticity or a specific landscape) can't be captured in a number alone.
The Action Plan at the bottom of each report gives you concrete next steps to secure funding in the recommended country.
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