Equipment Planning Services

Gear planning for Peru starts with a rental market centered in Lima. A handful of set-up houses across Miraflores and San Isidro hold ARRI, RED, and Sony cinema bodies, Cooke and Zeiss glass, and full lighting and grip stock. But once gear leaves the capital, it faces altitude, humidity, or distance that punishes poorly prepared kit.

Productions shooting Cusco at 3,400m, the Sacred Valley terraces of Pisac and Ollantaytambo, or Lake Titicaca at 3,800m need power budgets, battery counts, and HMI ballast specs redone for thin air. Amazon shoots in Madre de Dios or Manú demand sealed cases, silica gel, and backup media for humidity that runs above 90 percent. Our coordinators know which Lima rental house holds spare RED bodies on a Friday afternoon, which gaffer trucks are road-rated for the Cordillera Blanca passes, and which city-based partners can stage a local sub-rental rather than truck gear up from the coast.

Our planning starts with a creative and tech breakdown against your shotlist, locations, and schedule. From there we build a department-by-department gear list, checked against what is free and IGV-invoiced rate quotes from Peruvian suppliers. Cross-border imports route through SUNAT customs, with ATA carnet handling for global gear. We set up local transport between Lima, Cusco, Arequipa, and remote Amazon or Andean units, using cars and drivers who have made the runs before.

Specialty rigs come through trusted partners, each with on-call technicians attached. These include DJI Inspire and Mavic packages cleared by DGAC drone licensing, gimbals for handheld work in narrow Cusco lanes, and underwater housings for Paracas and Ballestas. The result is gear that lands where it needs to, tuned for the altitude or humidity it will work in, with a twenty-four-hour swap if anything fails mid-shoot.