Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth! for Searchlight Pictures, Paul Greengrass’ The Uprising and the second season of The Day Of The Jackal are among 26 film and TV projects allocated more than €31m by Austria’s FISAplus cash rebate scheme this year.
German-Austrian production company Supernix accessed €1.12m for Greengrass’ historical drama about the English Peasants’ Revolt. Starring Andrew Garfield and Jamie Bell, the film wrapped its shoot in Bavaria last December.
Gilroy’s drama about a cellist starring Pedro Pascal, Eva Victor Olivia Wilde, received a rebate of €72,000.
UK-based Carnival Film & Television’s production of the second season of The Day Of The Jackal series starring Eddie Redmayne as the lone assassin was awarded €956,000.
The largest sum paid out so far this year by FISAplus - € 4.4m - went to the second season of the cult TV police procedural series Kommissar Rex (Inspector Rex) which has been rebooted by MR Film for German private broadcaster SAT.1 and Austrian public broadcaster ORF.
Other projects supported by the rebate scheme include the ZDF drama series Downgrade, starring Ulrich Tukur, Moritz Bleibtreu and Anja Kling, which received a rebate of over €2.9m, and new episodes of the Alpine-set Bergdoktor and Bergretter series with incentives totalling more than €4.8m.
FISAplus offers a 30% reimbursement for eligible Austrian costs, plus a 5% green filming bonus for sustainable productions and also the possibility of gender gap financing of €25,000.
The funding is capped at €5m per film and €7.5m per series, with minimum Austria spend for fiction set at €150,000 and €80,000 for documentary projects.
In 2025, the largest individual sum paid out by FISAplus was €4.39m for W&B Television’s production for Netflix of the crime series Crooks which was shooting in Vienna and surroundings last spring/summer.
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