Director of Photography Services

Here is how this works in practice. Colombian cinematography has been operating at the very top of the global festival circuit for a decade. David Gallego shot Embrace of the Serpent in anthropological black-and-white on the ARRI Amira — the film took the Cannes Directors' Fortnight Art Cinema Award and an Oscar nomination — then followed with Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria. This won the Cannes Jury Prize 2021, and the visually radical Birds of Passage (2018). Mauricio Vidal lensed Monos on Sony Venice 2 with Atlas Orion anamorphics, taking the Sundance 2019 World Cinema Special Jury Prize.

Sergio Iván Castaño shot Litigante (Cannes Critics' Week). Paulo Pérez took the San Sebastián Golden Shell 2022 for Laura Mora's Los Reyes del Mundo. ACE Colombia (Asociación Colombiana de Cinematografía) keeps the working roster behind these credits. The senior DPs in our Bogotá and Medellín network either appear in the AIC-equivalent membership or trained through the same Universidad Nacional, PUJ Centro Ático, and Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV San Antonio de los Baños Cuba pipeline that produced them.

Matching is brief-driven and bilateral. We open every conversation with reference material, format, schedule, and budget envelope — including Proimágenes Colombia FFC and CINA tax-rebate eligibility (35% on local spend, 40% on cash transfer) where applicable — then return a curated shortlist of three to five DPs whose reels show the specific tonal range your project needs: anthropological B&W in the Amazon basin, high-contrast night exterior in Medellín's Comuna 13, Caribbean colour-saturated work in Cartagena's old city, observational doc across the Sierra Nevada or Pacific Chocó, or controlled soundstage cinematography at Caracol Estudios or the Bogotá Film Commission's preferred set facilities.

Our DPs work fluently across ARRI Alexa 35, Mini LF, Sony Venice 2, Burano, and RED V-Raptor 8K systems rented through Cineplot Bogotá, Casamedia, and Postdata, and they bring their own working relationships with key gaffers, grip teams, and 1st ACs so the camera department arrives pre-composed. ACE Colombia standing, English-working ease, and recent global-production references are verified before booking, and contracts run under Colombian Labor Code audiovisual provisions with ARL coverage in place.