The list of forthcoming productions includes Mikkel Serup's feature Second Best/Næstbedst (a Danish / Croatian coproduction from Nimbus Film and MP Film Production); Isabelle Sandri's feature Un Uncertain Border/Un confine incerto (an Italian/Croatian coproduction from Gaundri Film and MP Production); and the Belgian/Croatian children’s film When My Father Became a Bush/Tod mijn vader een struik werd by Nicole van Kilsdonk (produced by Lemming Film in coproduction with Nukleus Film). A French/Croatian biopic of Jacques-Yves Cousteau is also expected to be shot in Croatia this year.
According to Filming in Croatia and the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, several TV productions are also expected to be shot in the second part of 2015, including the sixth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones; the German trilogy Winnetou (produced by Rat Pack Filmproduktion and coproduced by Mythos and Rialto Film with Aleks Produkcija providing services); the two-part TV film Branka Marić, the Devil from Split/Branka Marić, das Teufel von Split by Alexander Dierbach (produced by Germany's Constantin Television in coproduction with Pakt Media); and the second season of the Italian series Gomorrah/Gomorra (produced by the Rome-based company Cattleya).
A total of 17 foreign productions have used the Croatian tax incentives scheme since its launch in 2012 (five in 2012, four in 2013 and eight in 2014).
“The total amount of money spent by foreign films in Croatia was approximately 11.4m EUR in 2014, with a refund of 2.2m EUR,” Sunčica Pleština, the Filming in Croatia Programme Officer, told FNE.The amount is almost as much as in 2012 and 2013 combined, and it was mostly due to the HBO series Game of Thrones whose seasons 2, 3, 4 and 5 were shot in Croatia (the fifth season was shot in 2014.).
Under the cash rebate scheme, projects can claim back 20% of their qualifying expenditure, which is based on the cost of the Croatian cast and crew working in Croatia, as well as goods and services purchased in Croatia, with a cap of around 2.6m EUR per project.
