Marine & Wildlife Filming

Here is how this works in practice. Marine and wildlife filming in Peru covers three of the planet's most distinct ecosystems — the cold Humboldt Today's along the Pacific coast, the Andean cordilleras and the Amazon basin — and the country sits among the top ten most biodiverse countries on Earth. Marine sequences run from Humboldt penguin and sea lion colonies in the Paracas National Reserve. The Ballestas Islands through bottlenose dolphin and pelagic coverage off Lima's coastline to humpback whale migrations off Máncora and the northern coast between July and October.

Underwater work also extends to Lake Titicaca. The Uros floating islands plus the giant Titicaca water frog endemic to the lake.

Here is the short of it. Wildlife subjects have jaguars, ocelots, capybaras, macaws, caimans, pink river dolphins and giant otters across the Madre de Dios biome. Manu UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Tambopata National Reserve and the Pacaya-Samiria Reserve — alongside Andean condors over Colca Canyon, vicuñas across Pampa Galeras, spectacled bears (the species behind Paddington) in the Cordillera Blanca and Huayhuash, and the four-camelid set of llama, alpaca, guanaco and vicuña across the highland communities of Cusco, Puno and Ayacucho.

Here is the breakdown. Our crew works with skilled Peruvian wildlife cinematographers credited across the BBC, National Geographic, Disney+, Netflix and ARTE natural-history slates, supported by Lima-based service firms such as APU Productions, Chita Films and GoPeruFilms with their inventory of long-lens 600mm and 800mm primes, RED Komodo, ARRI Alexa Mini and Sony Venice 2 bodies, Gates and Subspace underwater housings, remote camera traps, hide systems and macro rigs.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Our team sets up permits through PromPerú, the Ministerio de Cultura and SERNANP for filming inside Manu, Tambopata, Pacaya-Samiria, Huascarán, Paracas and the surrounding reserves, alongside DICAPI Port Captaincy authorisations for all maritime work, indigenous-community planning across Madre de Dios and Loreto, and DGAC drone licensing for any aerial cross-overs over covered areas or reserves.

Here is how the picture comes together. Productions are briefed on seasonality — humpback migration July to October off Máncora, dry-season Amazon wildlife May to October when river levels drop and animals concentrate, year-round condor activity in Colca, spectacled bear behaviour in Cordillera Blanca by season — and aligned with DAFO and Ministerio de Cultura sign-ups, IGV 18% invoicing and the competitive non-union 12-to-14-hour day Peru is known for.