Don´t stop your projects during Covid-19

We’d like to offer you some of our services we could do by now, during this stage of lockdown situation by Covid-19. Meanwhile your team members be unable to travel, our processes and expertise are here to support you. We are experienced in providing a remote production. From Barcelona 023.think.create.produce asked us a corporate video … Continue reading →

Golf Channel: El Loco Del Palo

SoHi Media, Inc. along with EA – Electronic Arts and Golf Channel have got two Sports Emmy Awards nominations for the featured documentary El Loco Del Palo. This is the Story of Dylan Reales, a young golfer from the Villa 31 in Buenos Aires, whose talent put him on the path for stardom. San Telmo … Continue reading →

WE STILL SHOOTING! -🎥 DON´T STOP YOUR PROJECTS BY COVID-19 / CORONAVIRUS 🎬

As the global effects of Coronavirus continue to evolve & challenge us all, in San Telmo Productionshave a proposition for you, like we have a long experienced in providing remote productions. Don’t cancel your projects, and let the things rolling on with us. Production in Argentina continues and we take our role in health & … Continue reading →

Introducing you to some of our amazing landscapes at Argentina

From jungles to glaciers, with the Andes, grassland, multicolored deserts and salt-flats in between, Argentina offers reverse seasons from the Northern Hemisphere and up to 14 hours of sunlight in January. We would be place to invite you to film these wonderful places with us. The moment you request a quote from San Telmo Productions … Continue reading →

7 Famous Films Set in Argentina

Argentina has an enviable film industry, and has walked away with two Oscars for Best Foreign Film over the years. The chaos, passion and drama of the country makes for a perfect silver screen setting – we round up some of the most famous films to be set in Argentina for your viewing pleasure. – … Continue reading →

Filming Argentina Episode of 24 HOURS OF REALITY : THE WORLD FORWARD

One month after the Paris Agreement 2016 enters into force, former US VicePresident Al Gore hosted 24 Hours of Reality: TheRoadForward, a star-studded, 24-hour broadcast focused on making solutions to the climate crisis a reality across the globe. We are happy to have been Al Gore’s The Climate Reality Project local production company at Impsa … Continue reading →

Argentina’s ‘Wild Tales’ nominated for ‘Best Foreign Film’ at the 2015 Oscars

Hot of the press! Argentina has been nominated for another Best Foreign Film award at the 2015 Academy awards. Just 4 years after the win of Juan José Campanella’s ‘The Secret in his Eyes’, Argentina is really making a stand on the international film front. This year two Latin American countries were on the shortlist … Continue reading →

“GOALS FOR GIRLS”, DOCUMENTARY ABOUT WOMAN`S FOOTBALL (SOCCER) IN ARGENTINA NOW AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE BY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

“GOALS FOR GIRLS: A STORY OF WOMEN WITH BALLS”, DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN TO PLAY FOOTBALL (SOCCER) IN ARGENTINA NOW AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE BY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS “Goals for Girls shows how powerful ideas about gender and biology, perpetuated by the media, sports industry, and families, can limit women´s lives – but female soccer players … Continue reading →

Shooting mummies in Salta with San Telmo Productions

By Benjamín Harguindey San Telmo Productions was recently in charge of fixing a shoot for Saloon Media’s TV show Mummies Alive, which has its Canadian crew flying around the world filming different kinds of mummies. Their latest foray was in the province of Salta, Argentina, where the famous “Children of Llullaillaco” (three mummified children, the … Continue reading →

Argentine Film Institute Creates Horror Movie Fund

By Benjamín Harguindey The president of the Argentinian INCAA Film Institute, Lucrecia Cardoso, has recently created a specific kind of funding for horror movie production in Argentina. A call for applications will launch shortly, after which two projects will be selected by the state for financing. Recent genre pieces include vampire movie Darkness by Day (2013), … Continue reading →

Wild Tales Breaks Box Office Records in Argentina

By Benjamín Harguindey Damián Szifron’s “Wild Tales” (Relatos salvajes) made box-office history this weekend in Argentina, informed The Hollywood Reporter, opening with 450,000 tickets (an approximate $2.5 million dollars) and setting a new record not just for any movie launch of 2014 so far, but any Argentinian movie ever released as well. The movie launched … Continue reading →

US Studios Invest in Argentinian Film Industry; Wild Tales takes Box Office Top Spot

By Benjamín Harguindey Argentina is considered a “tastemaker” market in South America, coveted for positioning films for favorable runs around the continent. But currency restraints have recently prevented Hollywood studios like Disney and Paramount from cashing in on box office blockbusters distributed around the country, a result of Argentina’s devalued currency. Consequently, many of these US … Continue reading →

The Games Maker: 3D children’s fantasy filmed in Argentina, spoken in English

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey The Games Maker is a 3D film shot in a co-production between Argentina (Pampa Films, 70% owner), Canada (Sepia Films) and Italy (DAP Italy). Integrally shot in Argentina over the course of 11 weeks during the winter season of 2013, it was based on an Argentinian novel, helmed by Argentine … Continue reading →

San Telmo Productions joins thecallsheet.co.uk

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey San Telmo Productions has been added to thecallsheet.co.uk, a primarily UK-based crew service gone global in response to the number of applications from crews around the world. thecallsheet.co.uk has over 3,000 members including Oscar, BAFTA & Emmy winning talent, as well as a database of over 50,000 people, productions and … Continue reading →

Walter Salles produces Santiago Mitre’s second film – a remake of the controversial “La Patota”

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Walter Salles’ production house VideoFilmes will be co-producing Santiago Mitre’s second film “La Patota”, a remake of Daniel Tinayre’s classic 1960 social thriller. The international co-production is a result of a 2010 film fund intended to finance four co-productions a year between the countries of Argentina and Brazil. Salles, the … Continue reading →

Winter is Coming: Snow Locations in Argentina

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Winter is coming! Not to Westeros Game of Thrones fans but to Argentina. Every mid-June to late September Argentina offers a rich diversity of winter locations for your next film, commercial or TV shoot. You may associate South America with tropical hot spots and desert plains, but wintertime in Argentina … Continue reading →

Academy Award winning Argentine film “The Secret in Their Eyes” gets a US remake

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey It’s been no secret that Argentine crime thriller The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos in Spanish) would be getting a US remake after winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2010. As of May 13th the cast and crew have been finally revealed: the … Continue reading →

Goals for Girls acclaimed by local & international press

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey San Telmo Productions‘ feature length documentary Goals for Girls (Mujeres con pelotas, “Women with Balls” in Spanish) premiered May 8th after touring the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival the previous month, and has garnered some very positive reviews from the local and international press alike, including being covered by … Continue reading →

“Goals for Girls” Football Doc premieres at BAFICI 2014

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Friday 4th saw the Argentine premiere of San Telmo Productions’ documentary Goals for Girls, about women’s association football in Argentina, where it is continually ridiculed and discredited. Directors Gabriel Balanovsky and Ginger Gentile were introduced by BAFICI director Marcelo Panozzo and engaged in a brief Q&A session after the screening along … Continue reading →

Filming in Buenos Aires: Location Doubles for New York in Commercials

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Hundreds of commercials are shot in Buenos Aires, Argentina every year. About a fourth of these are international productions – products of agencies that choose to shoot in Buenos Aires for its moderate prices and versatility, which allows it to double for lots of different locations or simply pose as … Continue reading →

Shooting in Buenos Aires & Río Negro for BBC Documentary

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey As production fixers, we’ve had the privilege of working with the United Kingdom on several production shoots, the latest of which was on a documentary for the BBC about parrots and their urban habitats. San Telmo Productions was in charge of fixing the filming of the documentary, a 12-day shoot in Buenos Aires City and … Continue reading →

Álex de la Iglesia to shoot Leo Messi biopic in Argentinian-Spanish co-production

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Spanish filmmaker Álex de la Iglesia is slated to helm a Lionel Messi biopic in an Argentinian-Spanish co-production. De la Iglesia visited earlier this month Messi’s birthplace Rosario, gathering testimonies about his childhood and even visiting the small pitch where the current football ace played for the first time in … Continue reading →

Shooting in Patagonia for LG of South Korea

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey The region of Patagonia, located in the Argentine south, comprises a series of mountains, glaciers and tundra that form many National Parks. While it has good infrastructure for tourism, its locations – such as the ever popular Perito Moreno Glacier – keep crowds at bay. As such we were privileged … Continue reading →

Gael García Bernal films modern-day Western in Argentina: “The Ardor”

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Variety reported last week of Argentinian filmmaker Pablo Fendrik’s new movie production starring Gael García Bernal and Alice Braga, a “modern tale of survival and revenge” to follow up Fendrik’s Cannes champ Blood Appears (La sangre brota, 2008). The Ardor (El ardor) will be Fendrik’s third film and ostensibly mark … Continue reading →

“The Gods of the Water”, the first Argentine-Angolan movie co-production

by contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Argentina and Angola jointly announced the beginning of the first Argentine-Angolan co-production, to be filmed alternatively in both countries by cult director Pablo César. Argentina has as rich a history of international co-productions as César: the new movie, titled The Gods of the Water (Los dioses del agua), will be … Continue reading →

Building an industry with Argentina’s animated film Metegol

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey It is not everyday that the Argentine film industry is on the front page of the New Yorker Magazine, but a recent article shows that animated pic “Metegol” can be a gamechanger for Hollywood by offering high quality at 20% of the cost of a Pixar flick. You can read … Continue reading →

Will Smith/Rodrigo Santoro Comedy “Focus” Will be Filming in Argentina

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Wouldn’t you know it, Will Smith is coming over to Buenos Aires, Argentina this November to wrap up production of his new movie Focus, a comedy feature written and directed by filmmaking duo Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, of I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) and Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) … Continue reading →

Children’s Fantasy Film Starring Joseph Fiennes Shoots in Argentina

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Children’s fantasy movie The Games Maker started shooting this winter in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is based off the eponymous Argentine novel by Pablo de Santis and it’s being directed by Juan Pablo Buscarini, the filmmaker behind the animated family movies The Hairy Tooth Fairy (El ratón Pérez, 2006) and … Continue reading →

Argentine Films Dominate Local Box Office

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey In an unprecedented turn of events for Argentine cinema, this month’s movie-going Top 5 has been dominated by local productions: the 3D animated family movie Foosball (Metegol), the romantic comedy León’s Heart (Corazón de león), the thriller 7th Floor (Séptimo) and the drama Wakolda, recently nominated on the Oscar shortlist. Foosball … Continue reading →

Wakolda: The Tale of Those Who Looked Way

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Wakolda goes to places few Argentine movies dare: that of postwar Nazi collaborationism, sanctioned by the government and, in the interest of this movie, society overall. It is both a critique and an acknowledgement of a society that was willing to trade moral ground for Nazi know-how and personal benefit. … Continue reading →

Habemus Biopic: One Pope Movie Coming Right Up

By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Argentine filmmaker Alejandro Agresti announced on Monday that he’ll be helming a biopic on Pope Francis, up until March 13th Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Titled A Priest’s Tale (Historia de un cura), the movie will be a co-production between Argentina’s Pampa Films production studio and Spain’s Pentagrama. Said Pampa producer … Continue reading →

Bringing In Video or Film Equipment into Argentina?

Summer (December to March) is the busy filming season in Argentina due to the sunny weather.  A lot of production companies have been contacting San Telmo Productions to arrange logistics for their shoots. First question: Are you bringing in professional film, video or audio equipment? You will also need to arrange customs clearence to enter … Continue reading →

“Everybody Has a Plan” is Viggo Mortensen´s first Argentine Film: An Ambitious Debut

by Atzin Ortiz, Contributing Blogger Writer-director Ana Piterbarg has a very ambitious plan for her debut: making a big budget (around 3 million dollars, co-produced with Fox International), crowd-pleasing existential thriller starring a Spanish-speaking Viggo Mortensen in a double role. Despite her best intentions, and having a top notch pedigree onboard, “Todos Tenemos Un Plan” … Continue reading →

“Anima Buenos Aires” Brings handcrafted Animation to Big Screen

by Cecilia Baron, contributing blogger Anima Buenos Aires, directed by María Verónica Ramírez  in collaboration with major Argentina graphic artists Pablo Faibre, Florencia Faivre ( Meado por los perros), Pablo Rodríguez Jauregui (Claustrópolis ), Carlos Nine (Bu-Bu ) and Caloi ( Mi Buenos Aires herido)  interlaces four evocations of a mythical Buenos Aires.  Each story … Continue reading →

Elefante Blanco: Priests, slums, sex, drugs. Argentina’s “City of God”?

by Cecilia Baron, contributing blogger It is not a very hopeful picture that emerges from  Elefante Blanco (white elefant) the latest film byArgentine director Pablo Trapero.  Thefast-paced story centered around two priests who minister to a sprawling slum in Buenos Aires, and who fall victim to the violence they are trying to combat with love. … Continue reading →

Snow Locations in June and July

by Laura Pringle, contributing blogger Pull up your winter socks and shrug your scarf tightly around your neck because winter is here in the Southern Hemisphere.  If you are on the hunt for a snowy spot or winter location for you next film, commercial or TV shoot, Argentina has an abundance of stunning locations to … Continue reading →

Tigre Delta: Film Location with water, haunted houses and mansions

by Lauren Pringle, contributing blogger Water world, eat your heart out!  The Tigre Delta is an adventurous region that can double for the Vientmamese jungle, the Everglades or Louisiana Bayou and can offer a captivating setting for any film or TV production. This Calle 13 music video shows a great range of locations, natural and … Continue reading →

David Caruso set to Shoot Movie in Buenos Aires

by Lauren Pringle, contibutting blogger Famous for his role in CSI: Miami, the North American actor David Caruso has been location scouting in search of inspiration for his next feature film entitled “Chacarita”. Due to be filmed later on this year, the actor has recently been spotted in the city on a quick stint to … Continue reading →

Argentina Government to fund hundreds of hours of TV Content

by Lauren Pringle, contributing blogger Funding for television content in Argentina has always been a challenge: the few private broadcasters that commission do so mainly in house or with associated production companies.  This has kept independent producers out of the market, and limited the quantity of hours produced. A new initiative has been created by … Continue reading →

Argentina´s Film Union: SICA

If you are planning on filming a movie (for theatrical release or for television) or a commercial, one of the key players you will be dealing with is the film crew union, or SICA (Sindicato de la Industria Cinematográfica). Unlike in other Latin American countries, film crew members are not independent contractors: they need to … Continue reading →

BMW sings “Vamos a Tandil” and chooses Argentina

Ok, I´ll forgive you if you don´t get the reference. . . there is a very popular folk song called “Vamos a Tandil” (Let´s go to Tandil) that sings about the desire to go to this traditional town located where the pampas ends and Patagonia starts . . . low lying, rocky foothills  that give … Continue reading →

Shooting for mobile gaming at Etermax with San Telmo Productions

As production fixers, we are always doing all kind of shoots. Big or small, we always put our best to make sure that our client gets what they needed and leave Argentina happy. The most recently work we had done was with Plywood Pictures (New York City), shooting at the offices of Etermax, the biggest … Continue reading →