Feature Film Production

Here is how this works in practice. Peru's feature-film custom runs from Armando Robles Godoy and Francisco Lombardi through the today's auteur generation that includes Claudia Llosa (Milk of Sorrow Oscar nominee, Madeinusa Sundance winner), Javier Fuentes-León (Contracorriente, the first Peruvian Sundance winner in 2009), Daniel and Diego Vega (Octubre, El Mudo), Salvador del Solar (Magallanes), Melina León (Canción sin nombre at Cannes Directors' Fortnight) and Óscar Catacora's Aymara-language Wiñaypacha.

Here is the short of it. We provide full-service production support for studio-backed and independent features shooting in Peru, drawing on department heads who have worked with Tondero Producciones, Big Bang Films, Inca Producciones, Maretazo Cine and Origami Studio, alongside DPs from the Inti Briones and Mario Bassino school. Our team handles script breakdown through wrap — crew assembly, camera and lighting rentals through Lima houses, location services across Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley, Cusco's colonial core, the Sechura and Paracas deserts, the Cordillera Blanca, Lake Titicaca and the Amazonian lowlands.

Here is the breakdown. Co-production runs through the DAFO office at the Ministerio de Cultura under Ley 26370 grants, the Ibermedia regional fund, and bilateral treaties with Argentina, Spain and Brazil — frameworks we handle from start to finish with treaty compliance records, Peruvian partner introductions and reporting through Ministerio de Cultura. Crew scaling reaches from twenty-person indie units through 150-plus department major-studio shoots, with coordination through Peruvian guild structures and CCNL-equivalent labour terms.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Location access needs INC permits for Machu Picchu, Cusco, Chan Chan, Caral and Kuelap, SERNANP clearances for the Manú, Tambopata and Paracas reserves, DGAC drone licensing, altitude protocols above 3,000 metres, and dry-season planning between May and October. Post-prod runs through Lima facilities delivering DCP, streaming and broadcast specs, with festival-ready finishing for premieres at the Festival de Lima Latin American Film Festival hosted by PUCP, the Festival al Este, the city and Trujillo global festivals, and the broader Latin American circuit.