This program is available to Oregon resident producers/Oregon-headquartered production companies who spend a minimum of $75,000. Only the first $1,000,000 in expenditures qualify.

Project must have an Oregon producer attached, and at least 80% of crew must be residents of Oregon.

Regional Oregon Production Investment Fund Rebate #1: for Portland-based projects, a reimbursement of $200 per day for each person traveling to a location outside the Portland Metro Zone, defined as 30 miles from Burnside Bridge. This rebate has a per project cap of $10,000 per day and $50,000 overall.

Regional Oregon Production Investment Fund Rebate #2: for projects based outside the Portland Metro Zone, an additional 10% to be added to the projects overall OPIF award as long as there are a minimum of six production days and more than half those days’ worth of production is being done outside Portland.

The two Regional Oregon Production Fund rebates are mutually exclusive, and this fund is capped annually at 3% of the overall OPIF fund.

Unless otherwise permitted by Oregon Film, submit the application prior to production beginning in Oregon.

Qualifying payments to individuals and loan-out companies are capped at $1 million per project. The Greenlight Oregon Labor Rebate program has no annual cap. 

Oregon producers or local media production services companies who spend a minimum of $75,000, up to the first $1 million, may qualify for the iOPIF which provides rebates of 20% of goods and services and 10% of Oregon labor; other requirements apply; funding for iOPIF is limited to 5% of the moneys in the fund. 

Workers' Compensation is a non qualified expense. 

Payments to loan-out companies making less than $1 million per project and registered with the Oregon Secretary of State qualify for the 20% goods/services rebate. PHW are the only fringes that qualify for the Greenlight program. 

Oregon state withholding tax applies to all wages for which the rebate is claimed.