# WhatsApp Transcript: Ronny, Producer Offset Recording

**Date received:** 2026-05-07 09:46:58 UTC  
**Source:** WhatsApp chat with `61410434484@s.whatsapp.net`  
**Sender:** Ronny Mouawad  
**Message ID:** `4A529BDAF980D1BE0D9D`  
**Media type:** video  
**Original WhatsApp filename:** `video_20260507_094658.mp4`  
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**Transcription tool:** local Whisper via `transcribe-local`, large-v3 model  
**Status:** Automated transcript. The recording appears to repeat the same explanation twice.

## Clean transcript

The film will qualify for the Australian Producer Offset, which is a 40% tax rebate on qualifying Australian production expenditure.

As a co-pro, that also includes production expenditure in the co-production company. Australia has official co-production treaties with a number of countries, including France.

Some of that is cashflowable, yes. There are funders who set up that cashflow, the offset, such as Fulcrum Media Finance in Australia. There are a bunch of them. The Irish Bank was doing it for a while, but there are a bunch of people out there who cashflow the offset.

So you're essentially paying interest on the offset because it is assumed you actually apply for a certificate. You can apply for a certificate retrospectively, but you're better off getting it, in principle, up front from Screen Australia.

So there is both investment from the state funding agency, such as Screen New South Wales, and they can provide additional funding as part of their local production incentives.

The eligibility is that the IP has to be originated in Australia. It has got to be predominantly Australian, originated in Australia. But if it is an official co-production, then that IP can be shared with the co-production producers.

The writers have to originate in Australia. There have to be a certain number of cast who are Australian. It is a kind of matrix. There is no doubt that this film will qualify.

Thank you.

## Raw automated transcript

The film will qualify for the Australian Producer Offset, which is a 40% tax rebate on qualifying Australian production expenditure. As a co-pro, that also includes production expenditure in the co-production company. Australia has official co-production treaties with a number of countries, including France. Some of that is cash flowable, yes. There are funders who set up that cash flow, the offset, such as Fulcrum Media Finance in Australia. There are a bunch of them. The Irish Bank was doing it for a while, but there are a bunch of people out there who cash flow the offset. So you're essentially paying interest on the offset because it's assumed you actually apply for a... You can apply for a certificate retrospectively, but you're better off getting it and in principle up front from Screen Australia. So there's both investment from the state funding agency, like such as Screen New South Wales, but also they can provide additional funding as part of their location offset. Sorry, not location offset, that's the federal... And that's for offshore productions for their local production incentives. The eligibility is that the IP has to be originated in Australia. It's got to be predominantly Australian, originated in Australia. But if it's an official co-production, then that IP can be shared with the co-production producers. It's got to be like the writers have to originate in Australia, there have to be a certain number of cast who are Australian. But it's a kind of a matrix. There is no doubt that this film will qualify. Thank you. The film will qualify for the Australian Producer Offset, which is a 40% tax rebate on qualifying Australian production expenditure. As a co-pro, that also includes production expenditure in the co-production company. Australia has official co-production treaties with a number of countries, including France. Some of that is cash flowable, yes. There are funders who set up that cash flow, the offset, such as Fulcrum Media Finance in Australia. There are a bunch of them. The Irish Bank was doing it for a while, but there are a bunch of people out there who cash flow the offset. So you're essentially paying interest on the offset because it's assumed you actually apply for a... You can apply for a certificate retrospectively, but you're better off getting it and in principle up front from Screen Australia.

So there's both investment from the state funding agency, like such as Screen New South Wales, but also they can provide additional funding as part of their location offset. Sorry, not location offset, that's the federal... And that's for offshore productions for their local production incentives.

The eligibility is that the IP has to be originated in Australia. It's got to be predominantly Australian, originated in Australia. But if it's an official co-production, then that IP can be shared with the co-production producers. It's got to be like the writers have to originate in Australia, there have to be a certain number of cast who are Australian. But it's a kind of a matrix. There is no doubt that this film will qualify.

Thank you.