Third Assistant Directors

Third assistant directors on our Peru roster came up through the Lima AD ladder. That path was shaped by PUCP, the Universidad de Lima film programme, and the Toulouse Lautrec audiovisual school. Most have served on Tondero features, Cinesphere shoots, Audiovisual Project Perú series, and Big Bang Films campaigns. From there they crossed into global co-productions. These arrive under Ley 26370 certification and Ibermedia support, run by DAFO and the Ministerio de Cultura.

Their core area is the background department. They set up extras through Lima casting agencies such as Talent Group Peru, Magdalena Producciones, and Tondero Talent. In holding, they manage wardrobe and maquillaje flow, then place background to camera under the 1st AD's blocking. At wrap, they process vouchers and EsSalud or SCTR-aligned time cards, so the production office can submit clean payroll records in soles. Our ADs can scale a holding operation up or down with ease. They cover twenty extras on a Miraflores street scene or several hundred on a Plaza de Armas crowd day in the capital or Cusco. For Andean village shoots in the Sacred Valley, they run bilingual Spanish-Quechua planning.

Our 3rd ADs do much more than background work. They handle on-set lock-ups and talent escorts between basecamp and set. This means crossing Lima's congested grid and the narrow cobbled streets of Cusco's centro histórico. On public-road shoots, they plan traffic control with the Policía Nacional del Perú and Serenazgo city officers in central parts of the capital and Arequipa. They also chaperone child performers under Ministerio de Trabajo (Peruvian Department of Labor) rules, with on-set tutor scheduling. For Andean minor-on-set work, they arrange Quechua or Aymara interpreters. On the radio, they keep in touch with the wider AD department across English and Spanish channels.

Their credits span Lima feature shoots, Sacred Valley shoots, Amazon basin work out of Iquitos, and coastal desert shoots at Paracas and Nazca. Their bilingual skill lets them bridge English-speaking 1st and 2nd ADs with Spanish-speaking extras. They also link up Quechua-speaking Andean villagers, vendors, drivers, and local crew across the shoot. At wrap, they support voucher processing and EsSalud-aligned time-card running. When the AD team needs extra hands, they step into talent-wrangling duty. We match 3rd ADs to the background-work scale, the locations involved, and the AD team's language profile.