Director of Photography Services

Here is how this works in practice. Peruvian cinematography sits inside a small but worldwide credited tier that has shaped the way Andean and Amazonian light reads on screen for the past two decades. Inti Briones has shot Claudia Llosa's Milk of Sorrow — the Berlin Golden Bear and Foreign Language Oscar nominee — and Madeinusa, alongside Francisco Lombardi's later work, and now moves between Lima and global features.

Here is the short of it. Mario Bassino, Luis Otero Vega, Roberto Maceda Kohatsu, Daniel Sánchez López, Mauricio Vidal, and Pedro Carrillo fill the rest of the senior Peruvian DP roster behind the recent feature wave. Javier Fuentes-León's Contracorriente Sundance win, Melina León's Canción sin nombre Cannes selection, Óscar Catacora's Wiñaypacha, and the Tondero feature slate. The senior DPs in our Peru network either trained alongside these names or moved through the same PUCP and Universidad de Lima cinematography pipeline. Mid-tier DPs carry credits across América Televisión, Latina, Movistar Play, and the global commercial accounts shot through Miraflores agencies and Cinesphere stages.

Here is the breakdown. Matching is brief-driven and bilateral. We open each conversation with reference material, format, schedule, and budget envelope under DAFO and Ministerio de Cultura rebates frameworks where applicable, then return a curated shortlist of three to five DPs whose reels show the specific tonal range your project needs — high-contrast night exterior in Lima's centro histórico, soft natural-light interiors in a colonial Cusco patio, observational documentary across the Sacred Valley or Madre de Dios, or stylised product cinematography on a Cinesphere soundstage.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Our DPs work fluently across ARRI Alexa 35, Mini LF, Sony Venice 2, Burano, and RED V-Raptor systems rented through Lima houses, and they bring their own working relationships with key gaffers, grip teams, and 1st ACs so the camera department arrives pre-composed. Owner-operator DPs are ready where budget favours a packaged camera kit. English working ability and prior global-shoot credits are verified before booking. All engagements run under Peruvian freelance terms with SUNAT carnets and IGV 18% handled cleanly.