Logistics · Landed cost

Landed cost
& currency

Currency is the second-biggest lever after credits, and it moves daily. This puts both together into the number that actually matters: your true effective discount against shooting at home.

FX is a static snapshot in this build · daily feed in production · estimates only.

Assumes your home-currency budget buys the same production at home. The comparison is like-for-like on scope, not on quality of crew or stage.

True effective discount vs. shooting at home
0.0%
your US$25.0M delivers a production that would cost US$0 at home
Currency advantage Incentive stack
Currency risk

24-month range

At the low end of the range your discount falls to 0%; at the high end it reaches 0%.

The thing most producers miss

You can forward-contract this

Productions can and do hedge the currency exposure — locking a rate for the shoot window so the discount you budgeted is the discount you get. Most foreign producers shooting here for the first time do not know this is available to them.

The handoff

This is the number to take into the room.

Currency plus incentive is the whole argument for shooting here — and it is the one slide most pitches get wrong. We will build it against your actual budget.

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Currency, hedging and landed cost

What this models

Two separate advantages, expressed as one number. First, your home currency buys more Canadian production than it does at home. Second, a share of that spend comes back as a refundable credit. Stacked, they give the true discount against making the same production at home.

landed CAD   = home budget × FX rate
credit      = stacked federal + provincial (see calculator)
net CAD      = landed CAD − credit
home-equivalent = net CAD ÷ FX rate

true discount = 1 − (home-equivalent ÷ home budget)

Why the range matters

A discount built on a spot rate is not a discount, it is a bet. Over a two-year window the rate can move enough to erase several points of incentive value. Budgeting at the spot rate and shooting a year later is how productions lose money they thought they had made.

Hedging, briefly

A forward contract locks an exchange rate for a future date. For a production with a known shoot window and a known Canadian spend, this converts an FX bet into a fixed cost. It is routine treasury practice and it is available to productions — talk to your bank or a currency broker before you lock the budget, not after.

Not financial advice. FX shown here is a static snapshot for demonstration; production uses a daily feed with the rate date stamped on every figure.