Location Agreements

Here is the breakdown. Location agreements in Colombia thread together the Código Civil's property-contract rules, the city filming decrees that each alcaldía keeps and the heritage protections wrapped around the country's most filmed sites. Our team drafts and negotiates agreements covering the range: bilingual EN/ES private contracts for haciendas in the Eje Cafetero UNESCO coffee landscape, Bocagrande and Castillo San Felipe heritage releases in Cartagena set up with the Cartagena Film Commission and MinCultura, Pueblito Paisa and Aburrá Valley city templates handled through Medellín's Comisión Fílmica de Antioquia, and the Bogotá Film Commission frameworks issued by IDARTES for La Candelaria, Monserrate and the Zona G.

Here is the breakdown. Each agreement carries the standard production-side obligations — civil-liability insurance with Colombian carriers, ARL occupational-risk coverage for all on-site crew, restoration commitments and clean cancellation language — plus the specific clauses heritage administrators expect when filming touches walls, frescos or archaeological strata.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Beyond the urban core, location agreements get more layered. Parques Nacionales Naturales sign-off for Tayrona, Sierra Nevada, Los Nevados, Chingaza and Amacayacu need ANLA site-level planning and pre-shoot sites-level running plans. Caño Cristales filming runs through a strictly enforced seasonal window and the Cormacarena site-level authority. Indigenous-area shoots. Wayuu in La Guajira, Arhuaco and Kogi in the Sierra Nevada, U'wa in Boyacá, Tikuna in the Amazon — need cabildo (community council) sign-off that cannot be substituted by a private-property release, and the consultation process is built into the schedule rather than retrofitted.

Here is how the picture comes together. We set up with Colombian legal counsel on all higher-value or longer-length agreements, draft in EN/ES side-by-side so production-side counsel in Los Angeles, London or Madrid can review without translation lag, and store fully executed agreements with audit trails ready for Proimágenes Colombia and DIAN review when CINA or FFC incentive filings depend on them.