Case 3 · Co-production + incentives
Salt Roads
A Qatari–Jordanian feature stacking three territories' incentives, with the premium desk engaged.
- Funded
- 15%
- of the all-or-nothing goal
- Committed
- $7,500
- of the $50,000 goal
- Backers
- 5
- confirmed contributors
- Milestones
- 0 of 4
- released from escrow
Live figures, read from the same records the project page serves — nothing here is illustrative.
Salt Roads is a live traditional co-production crossing Wadi Rum and the Canary Islands. Its campaign is early — which is exactly when the premium pipeline earns its keep: the incentive stack is ranked, representation is requested, and the gap has a number.
Three territories by design.
Qatar, Jordan and Spain are not a marketing line: the shoot is split across them so the spend qualifies where the incentives are. The structure is the financing.
The campaign opened with co-producer tiers.
Backers hold credit tiers; two co-producer commitments anchor the raise. The mix below is all cash — this pipeline prices no time or compute, on purpose.
- Cash · $7,500(100%)
Milestones follow the map.
Development, the Jordan block, the Canaries block, post: each milestone is a territory's budget, released as that block delivers.
- 1 · Development and casting$30,000Planned
- 2 · Principal photography — Jordan$110,000Planned
- 3 · Principal photography — Canary Islands$60,000Planned
- 4 · Post and delivery$50,000Planned
The scanner ranked the incentive stack.
The premium intake for this project carries a scanner-ranked stack across Spanish, European, Jordanian and Qatari programs. The estimates below are the scanner's own, and representation has been requested on them.
- ES_BASQUE$231,000
- ES_IBERMEDIA$150,000
- EU_CODEV$138,000
- EU_EURIMAGES$172,500
- EU_MEDIA_TV$80,500
- JO_REBATE$185,000
- QA_ARAB_STACK$146,667
- QA_DFI_POST$75,000
- QA_QSPI$440,000
Estimated stack total$1,618,667
The gap is published as roles.
What the production still needs is on the board with budget bands attached — including the gap financing itself. A co-production that hides its gap is not looking for partners.
- Equity partner — Spanish branchES$20,000 – $60,000Equity into the Spanish SPV that carries the Canary spend and claims the rebate.
- Line producer — Jordan unitJO$8,000 – $14,000Run the Wadi Rum block. Local crew already attached; you own the schedule and the cash flow against the rebate.
- Open roles above are live listings with their real budget bands.
Check the source
Every number in this article reads from the live project. Open the project page and compare — the case study has no numbers of its own.