Local Fixer Services

A local fixer in Peru does much more than translate Spanish. On many sets the role spans three languages: Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara. The fixer also carries the cultural codes that matter. Those codes decide whether a Sacred Valley community, a comunero in the Colca Canyon, or a riverside village in Tambopata welcomes a crew or quietly shuts the door.

Our fixers hold ties that global producers cannot build on a short scout. They know the people who matter, like the Municipalidad de Lima film office contacts in Centro Histórico and Miraflores. The INC liaison can push a Machu Picchu sign-off through. They also know the SERNANP rangers who guard access to Manú and Paracas. The community elders in Ollantaytambo and Pisac give a blessing that beats any permit. Our team knows how DAFO grants and Ibermedia co-production funds work with Ley 26370. Our fixers also read the rhythm of Peruvian shoot days, like the altitude buffers a Cusco or Puno shoot needs.

For shoots arriving in country, that knowledge means fewer surprises.

Our fixers run point on permits with DAFO, INC, SERNANP, and DGAC. They brief crews on the protocols that keep ties strong with Quechua-speaking communities and Amazon Indigenous federations. They also handle the small details that fall outside a normal production manager's brief. It means soles cash payments for remote vendors, plus altitude medication and oxygen for crew arriving at Cusco from sea level. It also covers yellow fever and malaria records for Amazon units. Hospital and clinic contacts in Lima's San Isidro handle any crew incident.

Our fixers sit beside line producers without doubling up the work. They stay on call twenty-four hours a day for the issues global shoots always run into, from Iquitos river boats to Lake Titicaca high passes. The result is a production that moves through Peru with the ease of a local team and the standards of a global one.