Production Assistance
Production Assistance encourages productions that highlight Singapore talents in credited roles and spur Singapore Spend.
MDA will support up to 40% of your project’s total Singapore Spend. To encourage a sustained pipeline of projects, a further grant of up to 10% of the Singapore Spend of your current project can be used for your next project.
Production Assistance is open to:
- Singaporean and Permanent Residents
- Singapore-registered companies [listed in the Media Singapore Standard Industrial Classification (SSIC) Code].
If you would like to find out if your company is listed in the Media SSIC code, enter your SSIC code here.
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What we will support
Grants go towards supporting a range of production activities including but not limited to the following:
| Sector |
Production Activities Supported |
| Animation |
- Animated TV series or animated feature
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| Broadcast |
- Master tapes of programme and trailer, including final shooting scripts and music cue sheets.
- Fully functional website (if applicable)
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| Film |
- Completed film in final delivery/screening format
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| Games |
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| Interactive Media |
- Applications (e.g. online applications/portal/platform, mobile application.)
- Finished products (e.g. handheld portable devices, interactive signage board)
- Content (e.g. full storyboard of all topics for a module, actual digital content for a module)
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| Music |
- Platforms for music talent discovery
- Music composing, scoring and recording for animation, broadcast, film, games, interactive media and publishing
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| Publishing |
- Printed content with agreed initial circulation numbers
- Digital applications and/or content published on agreed platform
- Service or distribution platforms
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Our schemes are Content360 ready. We encourage projects that cover more than one of the above sectors. These can be submitted and evaluated as one project.
How we will support
MDA will support up to 40% of your project’s total Singapore Spend. A further grant of up to 10% of the Singapore Spend of your current project can be used for your next project.
#Singapore Spend refers to a project’s expenditure on the cost items incurred in Singapore or on Singaporeans (regardless of residence/location) or Permanent Residents (based in Singapore). This includes third-party costs incurred and paid directly to a Singapore business entity or Singaporeans overseas. Any goods and/or services supplied by a Singapore business entity must be substantially supplied, performed or value-added in Singapore.
The qualifying cost items captured under Singapore Spend include:
- Manpower / talents
- Professional fees / services
- Hardware / software
- Intellectual property licensing
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- Equipment rental
- Location rental
- Master print / tapes
- Legal fees
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- Art/set department
- Travel and accommodation costs
- Ground transport
- Distribution, marketing and promotion
- Project financing (e.g. insurance, completion bond)
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How Production Assistance works
Example
Project A has a budget of $5 million, of which $1 million is spent in Singapore. The applicant can get a Production Assistance grant of up to $400,000 for Project A and a further grant of up to $100,000 for his next project, Project B, if the latter’s production commences within 12 months from the completion of Project A. If Project B has a budget of $4 million with a Singapore Spend of $2 million, the applicant can be funded up to $900,000 and a further grant of up to $200,000 will go towards his next project.
Contact us
Tell us your plan at MDA_Schemes@mda.gov.sg and we will arrange for an industry officer to speak to you.