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Film Incentive Program

The Santa Clarita City Council is committed to doing everything possible to keep filming in L.A. County. To that end, since 2009 the Council has approved funding a Film Incentive Program (FIP). The FIP is aimed at retaining and increasing feature and television production in the City of Santa Clarita (City) and the Santa Clarita Valley (SCV) by subsidizing permit fees, in addition to reducing costs of safety personnel as possible.

The FIP offers refunds of basic film permit fees and portions of hotel occupancy taxes to qualifying productions as stated below and has a subsidy cap of $60,000 per fiscal year (July 1 – June 30). Applications will be accepted and subsidies will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Productions based in the City will be given first priority.

How to Qualify:

  • Production based at an approved location in the Santa Clarita Valley for a minimum of four (4) consecutive weeks; or
  • Production that pull three (3) or more City film permits within a fiscal year; or
  • Production project that is approved for the California Film & Television Tax Credit Program. Learn more about the California Film & Television Tax Credit Program HERE https://film.ca.gov/tax-credit/

Eligible Productions Include[1]:

  • Feature Films
  • Television Pilots
  • Television Movies and Miniseries
  • Television Shows
  • Commercials
  • Music Videos
  • Reality Television, Home Improvement, or Competition Shows
  • Internet and Web (Minimum 15 cast/crew)

Occupancy at City Hotels Incentive:

City will refund fifty percent (50%) of Transient Occupancy Taxes (TOT), not to exceed five percent (5%), collected within the City to the following:

  • Production company that purchases a minimum of 20 room nights within a 30 day period at a hotel location within the City[1]; and
  • Production that films at an approved location in the SCV[2]
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[1] Not eligible productions include: news programs, current events or public affairs programs, interview or talk shows, sporting events, awards shows, productions that solicit funds, industrial and corporate films, films or programs consisting of more than 50% stock footage, documentaries, variety programs, daytime dramas, strip shows, student films, non-profit, and any production for which records are required to be maintained with respect to any performer in such production under Section 2257 of Title 18 of the United States Code (reporting of books, films, etc. with respect to sexually explicit conduct)maintained with respect to any performer in such production under Section 2257 of Title 18 of the United States Code (reporting of books, films, etc. with respect to sexually explicit conduct)

[2] Hotels location in City of Santa Clarita include: Courtyard by Marriott (28253 Westinghouse Pl.), Embassy Suites (28508 Westinghouse Pl.), Holiday Inn Express (27513 Wayne Mills Pl.), Hyatt Regency Valencia (24500 Town Center Dr.), Santa Clarita Motel (24971 Railroad Ave.), Super 8 (17901 Sierra Highway), Travel Lodge (17843 Sierra Highway)

[3] “SCV” includes the following zip codes: 91321, 91350, 91350, 91351, 91354, 91355, 91381, 91382, 91383, 91384, 91387, 91390, 93510