Country Demographics for Mauritius('MU')

Film Commissions

Mauritius Film Development Corp
Tel: 698 6013, 696 3137 Fax: 698 5093, 697 9688
E-mail: mauritiusfilm@intnet.mu
Website: www.mauritiusfilm.org
General Manager: Mrs Nurvuda Kamla Ramyead

Introduction
Mauritius has endless kilometres of unspoiled beaches, protected lagoons, natural and marvellous sceneries, magnificent volcanic mountain ranges, valleys, native forests, rich tropical fauna and flora and boasts of its world heritage site, the Aapravasi Ghat, where indentured labourers from India first landed in 1834 in Mauritius to toil as hard labour in the sugar cane fields. The additional advantages of shooting in Mauritius include: spectacular locations; time saving - unlike other countries, the diversity of its locations is amazing and thanks to efficient highways and roads, you can get from one location to another in record time; low labour rate – our legislation allows longer working hours, which means tighter production schedules, and favourable exchange rates means the labour rate is low; multilingual and pluri-cultural society – Mauritius is a multilingual and rich culture namely in terms of its diversity of ethnic groups implying the availability of a pool of extras with fluency in various foreign languages; equipment & video editing – heavy filming equipment namely crane, track and trolley, HMI lights, generator sets, reflectors, etc are all available for outdoor shooting and video editing facilities are also available.

Permits/visas
Visas are required - see Mauritius Passport Office website (http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/passportSite).

Tax breaks/incentives
There are currently no financial incentives as such for foreign production companies.

Recent productions
Since July 2007, the following foreign production companies have used Mauritius to shoot feature films, documentaries, travel shows, TV programmes, Hindi and Tamil films:- Aleya Motion Magic (India), Deepti Bhatnagar Production (India), Big Fish TVS (Africa), TV3 (Malaysia), Eyeworks Touchdown (Australia), i-Cable Entertainment (China), Circling Shark Productions (Netherlands), Po Sing Productions (Hong Kong), USP Ananda (France), Top Expo (France), PM Production (Madras), Big Screen Entertainment (India), Shree Asta Vinayak (India), Rupali Entertainment (India), RTL Tvi (France), Emerix (Czech Republic), Pro Sieben TV (Germany), Talking Pictures (South Africa), Mudrak TV (Germany), Anticlock Films (India), J71 Studio (India), Bonne Compagnie (France), Cirussthi Films (Madras), News Broadcasters of Asia (India), Hardcash Productions (UK), Shri Adhikari Bros (India), Bbcinematics (India), Moomal Productions (Pakistan), Verlagshaus (Austria), Constantin Entertainment (Germany), Anil Kapoor Film Co (India).