Specializing in motion picture production incentives, we create the most value for producers through maximizing and monetizing production incentives. North Star Incentive’s experience with domestic and international production incentives is unmatched allowing it to seamlessly partner with producers, financiers and distributors to ensure maximization and receipt of production incentives all over the world with ease. North Star Incentives provides compliance services of an already established production incentives, assists interested parties to establish incentives in a jurisdiction, provides production entity and tax return preparation management, as well as pre and post production accounting services. North Star Incentives allows producers to focus on their projects with none of the burden that obtaining production incentives requires.
Productions guided through incentive programs.
Domestic and International
Jurisdiction.
Years of tax and incentive
leadership on our team.
We sit between your production and the incentive program, so you don’t have to navigate the paperwork yourself.
“Several of us have worked on set ourselves, as production accountants, managers, coordinators, and supervisors, not just as advisors looking in from outside.”
Production incentive compliance
We prepare your comparative budgets, file the applications, and stand behind the audit, so the incentive you’re owed is the incentive you receive.
Tax credit placement
We broker the sale of your transferable tax credits to corporate and high net worth buyers, turning paper credits into capital.
Incentive financing
Through our banking partnerships, you can monetize your incentives before, during, or after the shoot, not only at delivery.
Prep and post production accounting
Payroll, cost reporting, and residuals, handled by accountants who’ve worked the sets they’re billing for.
“I started North Star Incentives because producers shouldn’t have to
become tax experts to collect the incentive they’ve already
earned.”
Nicole Ameln
President and Founder
20 years focused on production incentives and tax planning. Executive at Fox Studios, Deloitte and Touche, and White and Case, before founding North Star Incentives. My team includes specialists in production accounting, financing, brokering, and legal and business affairs.
We’re usually most useful early in the process, before the budget is locked.
