ICON FILM FINANCE

ICON FILM FINANCE provides cashflow financing for both film and television production in Australia.

The Dendy Icon Group has been supporting Australian independent producers to distribute and exhibit their content for over 20 years.

With the introduction of Icon Film Finance, we are now able to provide a one-stop destination for the end-to-end facilitation of production financing, distribution, and exhibition.

Talk to us about cashflow financing your next project’s screen and post-production tax credits, including the Australian federal Producer Offset, the PDV Offset and Location Offset and incentives, the Australian state-based PDV, and Attraction Incentives. We also assist with cashflow for distribution guarantees, international presales, sales agent advances and license fees.

Core to our values is a commitment to support independent Australian producers to tell their stories to the world.

The DENDY ICON group is one of Australia’s leading independent entertainment companies comprising ICON PRODUCTIONS, ICON FILM DISTRIBUTION, DENDY CINEMAS and ICON FILM FINANCE.

The group is owned by Mel Gibson and long-time producing partner Bruce Davey, who are the key principals behind the independent film company Icon Productions. Credits for Icon Productions include critically acclaimed and award-winning titles such as Braveheart, What Women Want, The Passion of the Christ, We Were Soldiers, Apocalypto and Hacksaw Ridge.

Icon expanded into film distribution in 2002. Drawing on its expertise in script analysis and development, Icon Film Distribution sources content from the world’s most prestigious film festivals, international film-markets and directly from producers.

Icon entered the exhibition business in 2008, acquiring one of Australia’s leading independent cinema chains Dendy Cinemas. Operating 43 screens across New South Wales, Queensland and ACT, Dendy Cinemas exhibits the best in quality cinema and alternative content.