MIB to Establish a Dedicated Web Portal for Promotion of Audio Visual Services

The Film Facilitation Office is in the process of establishing a dedicated web portal that will disseminate information on filming locations and the facilities available in India for production/post production. Accordingly, the portal will help potential production companies looking to shoot in India to obtain permissions, explore potential benefits (tangible and non-tangible), and obtain an overview of various locations in India that could benefit the storyline of the film under consideration.

The portal will facilitate the acceptance of an application for shooting feature films/TV and web reality shows and series and/or TV and web shows and series in India, along with online payments and issuing permissions. Foreign audio visual agencies intending to shoot documentary films/AV commercials in India would link to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) web portal. The portal would also provide information on locations and link to all state portals. It would capture detailed information pertaining to a particular location, resources, or facilities available in a standardized format that would include basic location description, map, best time to shoot, connectivity, photographs, digital walk tour, permissions required, and previous movies shot, among others.

The portal would provide information on all co-production treaties, shooting guidelines of various central and state agencies, permission process, and link to all trade associations. The portal would have a holistic database of the resources available in the Indian film industry including DOP, cast, crew, casting agents, line producers, service/facility providers as well as producers. It will also link all trade associations like Producers Guild, FFI, CII, and FICCI, among others. Financial incentives will be provided to film makers for production of films under audio visual co-production treaties with other countries. Support for funding will be taken from the dedicated corpus funds. Policy guidelines for optimum and effective use of funds are being prepared.