Film Production Services in Colombia
Shooting in Colombia without a local partner means managing crew, gear, permits, and logistics from a different time zone, through people you’ve never worked with. ProducciónAparte works as your production arm on the ground: English-speaking, embedded in your workflow, and set up to make a visiting director or producer’s job easier, not harder.
What's Included
- Local crew: camera, lighting, sound, grip and electric, PAs, translators.
- Equipment packages, from run-and-gun to full cinema setups.
- Location scouting and permits, including government and private locations.
- Line production and budgeting in USD or local currency.
- Casting and talent booking.
- Logistics: transport, accommodation, catering, and customs support for gear carnets
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When It Makes Sense
When your creative team is already set, whether that’s an agency, a brand, or a production company, and what you need is a reliable production partner in Colombia: crew, gear, locations, and logistics, without building that team from scratch every time you have a project in the country.
Investment
Cost depends on crew size, shoot days, and equipment required. As a reference, a full production day with local crew (camera, lighting, sound, production management) starts at USD 2,500. Larger-scale projects, such as event coverage or multi-day shoots, are quoted by scope.
How we work with international crews
- Fixer and line production. One English-speaking producer as your single point of contact from pre-production to wrap: permits, locations, casting, local crew, equipment, transport, accommodation and on-set coordination.
- Crew that scales. From a two-person documentary unit to 200+ crew for commercials, with department heads who have worked with international directors and agencies.
- Three working languages. Spanish, English and French across production, so briefs, call sheets and approvals do not get lost in translation.
- Remote approvals. Daily selects, edits and colour passes shared through review links with timecoded comments; most of our international clients never travel to Colombia for post.
- Working with companies abroad. We can invoice in dollars or pesos, work with your procurement process and provide the paperwork international clients usually need.
- Beyond Colombia. For projects that combine US and Colombian shoots we also have crew and production contacts in Miami, New York and Los Angeles.
Where we shoot
Bogotá, Medellín, Cartagena, the Caribbean coast, the coffee region and the Amazon, plus studio work in our own space in Bogotá. Colombia offers mountains, colonial cities, jungle and beach within a two-hour flight, with crew rates well below comparable US or European markets.
Can a foreign director or DP bring their own key crew?
Yes. We build the local team around them and handle everything their crew needs on the ground.
Do you handle drone, underwater or high-altitude shoots?
Yes, with licensed operators and the permits each location requires.
How far in advance should we book?
Two to three weeks for crew and gear; four to six if permits in protected areas are involved.
FAQ
Can you work as crew/equipment only, without creative direction?
Do you handle permits and insurance?
Yes, including government and private locations, and carnet coordination if the gear is traveling in from abroad.
How long does it take to set up a shoot?
It depends on complexity, but for standard productions we can have everything ready within 1 to 2 weeks of the brief.
Do you work with production companies or agencies that already have their own creative team?
Yes, that’s a core part of what we do. We act as your production arm in Colombia.
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