Los Angeles, USA, April 4 (CTK) – The Czech Republic can offer many film professionals and investment incentives to foreign film-makers, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka told representatives of six major U.S. film studios in Hollywood on Monday.
Czechs have generations of excellent film professions such as cameramen, film architects, sound engineers, actors and actresses, stuntmen, musicians and technicians, he said in a short speech before people representing the Universal Studios, Warner Bros., Walt Disney, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox.
Sobotka said the country can offer high quality of services and film infrastructure and a great variety of locations. On a small scale, film-makers can find architecture of all historical styles and eras and various beautiful landscapes, he added.
He said the Czech Republic is a stable and secure country.
Sobotka said American film studios showed high interest in the Czech Republic in the early 1990s, but later the interested decreased, also because other countries in the region offered more investment incentives.
He said the Czech government would like the U.S. film-makers to return to the country.
The government has worked out a new bill on the incentives and the lower house of parliament has already passed it, he said.
The Czech Culture Ministry can spend up to 800 million crowns on the investment incentives this year.
The Czech state has been offering to return 20 percent of their provable costs to foreign film-makers since 2010.
In 2015, foreign film-makers invested 4.5 billion crowns in the country.
