Location Managers

Location work in Peru is a multi-authority job, run across three ecosystems within one production.

A shoot moving from Lima's centro histórico into the Sacred Valley and on toward Machu Picchu spans many authorities at once. In Lima alone it covers the Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima and the Municipalidad de Lima Cercado film office. The Dirección Desconcentrada de Cultura Cusco governs the valley sites at Pisac, Ollantaytambo, Moray and Maras. The INC central office issues the archaeological permits for the citadel itself, plus Chan Chan in Trujillo, Caral in the Supe Valley and Kuelap in the Amazonas region. Each of these carries 4-to-12-week lead times. SERNANP clears any frame inside Manú, Tambopata, Paracas or Pacaya-Samiria. DGAC covers drone work. The prior-consultation process under Ley 29785 applies to Andean and Amazon indigenous communities.

Our location managers handle each layer in Spanish. They coordinate with the Cusco regional film office, the Lima film office and PromPerú. For highland village shoots, they bring Quechua and Aymara bridge support through trusted community liaisons. The same managers hold the contacts at INC, SERNANP, Migraciones and SUNAFIL that decide whether shoot days actually start on time.

On set, the work is quiet control across one of the most extreme landscapes on earth.

Our managers run daily site oversight across the country's hardest locations. At Machu Picchu they work under the tripod-and-gear restrictions and the 500-daily-visitor Inca Trail cap, and in Cusco's colonial-Incan grid under city heritage rules. They also cover the Nazca Lines aerial perimeter and the Lake Titicaca floating islands of Uros and Taquile under community-consent rules. Pacific coastal shoots run from Paracas to the northern surf beaches, alongside Arequipa's white sillar centro histórico and Colca Canyon. Amazon river basecamps are managed out of Iquitos, Puerto Maldonado and Tarapoto.

Property relations are run in Spanish, covering owner contact, damage prevention, and neighbour liaison. They also include the cultural courtesy that decides whether a return visit is welcome the next year. Basecamp setup, tech scouts, company moves and crane positioning are timed around altitude adjustment 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.