Netflix comedy series 'Tires', Sight & Sound film among PA tax credit recipients

Pennsylvania film commissioner Gino Anthony Pesi announced the recent recipients of the state's film tax credit program.

The projects that recently received Film Production Tax Credits include series two of Shane Gillis' Tires for Netflix, currently in production in Philadelphia and A Great Awakening, a feature about historical American figure George Whitefield also currently filming in Philadelphia and Lancaster County.

For Tires, Netflix received $5.5m in tax credits and will add an estimated $22 million into the Philadelphia region and create 886 jobs, according to the Department of Community and Economic Development.

Sight & Sound, the Penncylvania-based production company behind A Great Awakening received $2.6m in tax credits and will inject an estimated $10.4m into the regional economies while creating and supporting 846 jobs.

Further projects to receive credits include ten projects from the Pennsylvania Film Producer Reserve, which received a combined $1,076,889 in tax credits. The projects will create and support 443 jobs in 11 different counties, resulting in an estimated $4,307,560 for those regional economies.

These projects include:

• Three feature films: Between Friends, Chalk Line, and The Big Break.
• Three feature documentaries by Pennsylvania-based production company FreshFly: Citizen George, N.C. Wyeth, and Jamie Wyeth and The Unflinching Eye.
• Two documentary episodes by History Making Productions: In Pursuit: Philadelphia’s Story of American Democracy, and Soul of the City, Philadelphia’s Musical Century (Episode 1).
• A documentary feature by Allegheny County Native & Robert Morris College Professor, Steve Mancini: Fedelta.
• A documentary feature by The Workshop Content Studios: The Ride of a Lifetime: The Smarty Jones Story.

The Pennsylvania Film Production Tax Credit program offers a 25% tax credit to productions that spend at least 60% of their total budget in Pennsylvania. To wualify, projects must be a feature film, a television film, a television talk or game show series, a television commercial, a television pilot, or each episode of a television series intended as programming for a national audience.

• Hungarian 30% tax incentive, used by 'The Brutalist', 'Maria', extended