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
By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey The National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) of Argentina and the National Cinema Agency (ANCINE) of Brazil renewed their Film/Audiovisual Co-production Agreement during a ceremony held on July 25 this month in Panama, where respective presidents Lucrecia Cardoso and Manoel Rangel signed the agreement for the third time … Continue reading
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
By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey The jungle province of Misiones, Argentina (home to the 7th wonder of the world Iguazu Falls) will see a new international production start shooting the first week of March. After Pablo Fendrik shot the Argentine/Brazilian/US/French film The Ardor (a period Western starring Gael García Bernal and Alice Braga, currently in … Continue reading
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
By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey Buenos Aires is always a popular spot for filming. In 2013 the city saw over 300 commercials shoot in its streets, 72 of which were international productions, as well as 46 different local TV shoots and a total of 31 film shoots overall. All of these are assisted by the … Continue reading
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
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
Filming in Argentina: The blog of San Telmo Productions 