Film fixers in South America: Brazil, Argentina and Colombia

Brazil is the largest production market in South America, with São Paulo's advertising industry supporting the deepest crew and equipment base on the continent and Rio de Janeiro supplying the locations the world recognises. The Brazilian crew market is professional and well equipped, with rental houses in both cities carrying current cameras, lenses and lighting. There is no national rebate for foreign productions, but Rio and São Paulo both operate film commissions that issue permits and assist with locations, and several states offer support for projects that spend locally. Our fixers in Brazil handle the permits, the crew and the equipment, and the practical questions of filming in the favelas, on the beaches and in the Amazon, where access, security and logistics need an experienced local hand.

As a production service, Brazil is the most complete in Latin America: production companies in São Paulo and Rio carry commercials, television and film for the domestic market every week, which means the service infrastructure, from equipment rental and studios to post-production and casting, is always working. Our fixers there provide the same production service to international clients, with the art department, the camera and lighting crews and the logistics quoted as separate lines.

Argentina has one of the oldest and most accomplished film industries in the Americas, and Buenos Aires is a city of crews, studios and post-production that can carry a feature film or a television series at a fraction of North American cost. The city offers a 25 percent cash rebate on eligible spend with a minimum of ARS 300 million, and other provinces run their own schemes. Beyond the capital, Patagonia, the Andes, the wine country around Mendoza and the north-west give a production glaciers, desert, mountains and vineyards within the same country. Our fixers in Argentina manage the city's permits, the crew and the long-distance logistics that Argentine locations demand.

Colombia's Film Fund pays a 40 percent cash rebate on film services and 20 percent on logistics spent in the country, with a minimum spend set in monthly minimum wages, and the CINA tax credit offers an alternative route. The result has been a decade of international features, series and commercials shooting in Bogotá, Medellín, Cartagena and the Caribbean coast, and a crew base that has grown to meet them. Bogotá's altitude and architecture, Cartagena's colonial walls, the coffee region and the Pacific and Caribbean coasts give the country a range few can match. Our fixers in Colombia manage the Film Fund application, the permits and the crew, and advise on the security planning that productions still ask about and that experienced local producers handle as routine.

Permits, carnets and customs, local crew and equipment, casting, locations, translation, security planning, transport and accommodation, and a producer who stays with you from the brief to the wrap. We work for production companies, agencies and broadcasters on commercials, documentary, television and branded content, and we quote with local costs shown as separate lines. If you are comparing film fixers in South America or Latin America for the local side of a project, send us the brief; the work below is what we have done on the continent and across the region.

The service is the same across Latin America: production services quoted transparently, equipment rental through the houses we work with in São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Bogotá, a local team of professionals who know the location and the permits, and a producer who stays with you. Streamers and broadcasters, Netflix among them, have made the region a regular production destination over the past decade, and the crews, the post-production and the service companies have grown with that work. We bring the same production capabilities to commercials, television and documentary for international clients.