Quantify what your production is worth to the location.
Screen agencies, state bodies, and local governments want to know the economic impact of your production before they commit funding. How many local jobs? How much local spend? What's the dollar-for-dollar return to the region? Most producers guess. Or they hire a consultant. Or they skip the question entirely and hope the application speaks for itself.
loqyn's Location Value tool calculates the local economic impact directly from your production budget — with an adjustable multiplier for conservative to optimistic scenarios. No guesswork. No consultant. Export-ready for funding applications.
Start free on Spark. Location Value available from Screen Ember.
Location Value syncs with your production-phase budget. Change the budget — the impact figure updates.
"The screen agency asked for the economic impact of our shoot. I gave them a number I'd calculated on the back of an envelope three budget revisions ago."
Economic impact figures are a standard requirement for state and regional screen funding applications. The problem isn't that producers don't understand why they matter — it's that there's no systematic way to calculate them from the actual production budget. The number gets estimated once, early, and then decouples from reality as the budget evolves.
Location Value changes that. It reads your production-phase budget (excluding pre and post) and applies an economic multiplier to calculate the local impact. The figure updates as your budget updates. When the application asks for the number, it's current — and defensible.
- Economic impact figures are estimated once and never updated — even as the budget changes significantly
- No budgeting tool includes an economic impact calculator — producers use rough multipliers applied to total spend
- Funding applications require local economic benefit data but provide no tools to generate it
- Hiring a consultant to produce an economic impact report costs time and money — for a number that should come directly from the budget
- The multiplier varies by jurisdiction and scenario — but most producers don't model multiple scenarios
From production spend to economic impact — in minutes
Location Value reads your production-phase budget and calculates the local economic impact with an adjustable multiplier.
Make the economic case — not just the creative one.
Funding bodies don't only ask whether a film is worth making. They ask whether it's worth making here. Location Value gives you the number that answers that question — calculated from your actual budget, not estimated from industry averages.
Ember adds Location Value alongside Recoupment Forecasting and Qualifying Rebates — the structuring tools that help you package a production for finance.
Prove the local economic case for your production.
Start free on Screen Spark. Build your budget. Upgrade to Ember when you need economic impact data, rebate modelling, and recoupment forecasting.
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