Village Roadshow Production Services, formally known as Village Roadshow Production Management, is the production service arm of Village Roadshow Studios specialising in the servicing of off-shore companies producing in Queensland.

For an overseas production company filming in Queensland it is advisable to utilise the services of a Queensland based production services company. The use of such a company will help ease the off-shore company through immigration, union negotiations, taxation and banking regulations etc.  More recently, with the establishment of the Producer Offset, Production Services has been able to offer substantial help to Australian Producers, especially in the area of pre and post-production

Village Roadshow Production Services can offer each of the following services separately or as a package:

• Production Services
• Accounting Consultancy
• Payroll Administration

 

Production Services

• Consult on production budgets and schedules
• If requested, organization of creation of the AU entity for the production
• Negotiate with Australian Unions re variation requests regarding AU Cast and Crew
• Provide sponsorship through the AU Entity and work permits for overseas cast and crew
• Liaise with both State and Federal Government departments including the lodgement and finalization of all rebate applications
• Establish bank accounts
• Supervise and consult on casting and crewing in Australia
• Help with Cast Agreements, Crew Agreements, Location Agreements
• Use of our pre negotiated MEAA cast agreement
• Provide production accounting consultancy and payroll administration (see below)
• Consult on Australian taxation requirements
• Provide post production accounting services updating & maintaining records on Australian (and overseas if required) costs until close of bank account
• Preparing and filing state and federal tax rebate applications
• Maintaining all records to finalization of rebates, final tax return and bank account closure.
  

Accounting Consultancy

• Overseeing all accounts payable, petty cash, journal entries, purchase orders, deposits etc
• Tracking weekly cost reporting and trial balance movement and reporting directly to Producer
• Previous packages used include Vista, Media Services, Cosmo, Eclipse, and Show Auditor.