We handle compliance, tax credit placement, financing, and production accounting across more than thirty domestic and international jurisdictions. Our team includes people who’ve worked at Fox Studios, at Deloitte, and on production sets themselves.
In 2022, North Star partnered with RiseImpact Capital on tax credit brokerage, syndication, and finance.
Productions guided through incentive programs.
Domestic and international
Jurisdiction.
Years of tax and incentive
Leadership on our team.
We sit between your production and the incentive program, so you don’t have to navigate the paperwork yourself.
“Several of us have worked on set ourselves, as production accountants, coordinators, and supervisors, not just as advisors looking in from outside.”
Production incentive compliance
We prepare your comparative budgets, file the applications, and stand behind the audit, so the incentive you’re owed is the incentive you receive.
Tax credit placement
We broker the sale of your transferable tax credits to corporate and high net worth buyers, turning paper credits into capital.
Incentive financing
Through our banking partnerships, you can monetize your incentives before, during, or after the shoot, not only at delivery.
Prep and post production accounting
Payroll, cost reporting, and residuals, handled by accountants who’ve worked the sets they’re billing for.
“We started North Star because producers shouldn’t have to
become tax experts to collect the incentive they’ve already
earned.”
Nicole Ameln
President and Founder
Eighteen years focused on production incentives and tax planning at Fox Studios, Deloitte and Touche, and White and Case, before founding North Star Incentives. Her team includes Crystal Eaves, who directed theatrical production incentives at 20th Century Fox, alongside specialists in production accounting, financing, and business affairs.
We’re usually most useful early in the process, before the budget is locked.
