Location Managers

Location running in Peru is a multi-authority discipline conducted across three ecosystems in the same production.

Here is how this works in practice. A shoot moving from Lima's centro histórico into the Sacred Valley and on toward Machu Picchu sits across the Municipalidad Metropolitana de the capital, the Municipalidad de Lima Cercado film office, the Dirección Desconcentrada de Cultura Cusco for the the valley sites at Pisac, Ollantaytambo, Moray and Maras, the INC central office for archaeological permits at the site, Chan Chan in Trujillo, Caral in the Supe Valley and Kuelap in the Amazonas region — each with 4-to-12-week lead times — plus SERNANP for any frame inside Manú, Tambopata, Paracas or Pacaya-Samiria, DGAC for drone work, and the prior-consultation process under Ley 29785 for Andean and Amazon indigenous communities.

Here is the short of it. Our location managers handle every layer in Spanish, setting up with the Cusco regional film office, the Lima film office and PromPerú, and bringing Quechua and Aymara bridge support to highland village shoots through trusted community liaisons. The same managers carry the contacts at INC, SERNANP, Migraciones and SUNAFIL that decide whether the production day actually opens on time.

On the floor the work is quiet control across one of the most geographically extreme countries in the world.

Here is the breakdown. Our managers run daily site oversight at Machu Picchu under the tripod-and-gear restrictions and the 500-daily-visitor Inca Trail cap, in Cusco's colonial-Incan grid under city heritage rules, at the Nazca Lines aerial perimeter, on the Lake Titicaca floating islands of Uros and Taquile under community-consent protocols, on Pacific coastal shoots from Paracas to the northern surf beaches, in Arequipa's white sillar centro histórico and at Colca Canyon, and on Amazon river basecamps out of Iquitos, Puerto Maldonado and Tarapoto.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Property relations are managed in Spanish — owner communication, damage prevention, neighbour liaison and the cultural courtesy that decides whether a return visit is welcome the following year — and basecamp setup, tech scouts, company moves and crane positioning are sequenced around altitude acclimatisation days, INC heritage shooting windows, SERNANP access hours and the rainy-season weather windows that govern Andean and Amazon production. For multi-site features we field complete location departments. At wrap each site is restored with the closeout routed back through the relevant city, INC and SERNANP.