INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTIONS · U.S. & SPAIN
Production service is the wrong frame.
What an international film needs is translation. Systems, unions, permits, expectations. Without losing the director’s vision along the way.
CASE STUDY · NEW YORK, 2026
El Gusto del Cloro:
films get translated, not serviced.
01 · THE TRANSLATION
European financing logic into American paperwork. A Spanish crew structure into American labor rules. A shot list into permits that actually clear. We don’t execute instructions. We translate intent.
02 · THE FILM
The complicated part. Rooftops, parks, and streets across the city. Live subway platforms that required months of MTA film permitting. Local crews, U.S. insurance, American payroll.
03 · HOW IT LANDED
Entity and contracts, permits and locations, insurance and payroll, bilingual crews working in Spanish and English. The result. The film wrapped on schedule. European creative team. American production system. The director’s vision arrived intact.
INVISIBLE BY DESIGN
When the system works, nobody notices it. The director directs. The DP lights. Our machinery stays out of frame.
WHAT WE COVER
ENTITY & CONTRACTS
U.S. entity, vendor agreements, deal memos.
PERMITS & LOCATIONS
From film offices to the MTA.
INSURANCE & PAYROLL
COIs, workers comp, union and non-union payroll.
BILINGUAL CREWS
Spanish and English, both coasts.
BUDGET CONTROL & COST REPORTING
Weekly cost reports. No surprises.
U.S. STANDARD POST PIPELINE
Editorial, color and sound, finished to the spec your buyer sets.
SAG-AFTRA · TRANSLATED
The actors' union,
without the crash course.
European producers usually meet SAG-AFTRA at the worst moment: after casting, before the flight. The rules are not the problem. The clock is.
01 · RULE ONE
A union actor cannot work for a company that has not signed with the union. The signatory is the American entity employing your cast, not the European parent.
02 · THE AGREEMENT
Budget decides which contract you sign. The low budget ones ask for the whole film to shoot in the U.S., so most European co-productions land on the full agreement.
03 · THE REAL COST
Scale is the floor. On top: 22% pension and health, payroll, agents, overtime, a cash deposit before day one, and residuals long after delivery.
04 · THE CLOCK
The application opens four to six weeks before anyone travels or rehearses. No clearance, no work. Not even a table read.
05 · YOUR OWN CAST
Your Spanish lead can work a union production. It takes a Taft-Hartley report within 15 days and the union's opinion on the visa petition.
06 · COMMERCIALS
A different contract. Session fee for the shoot, then use fees by medium, territory and time. It is not a buyout.
WHAT WE TAKE OFF YOUR DESK
We read the script and the cast list against the agreements before you make offers, and we tell you when the union route is the wrong one for your film. When it is the right one, the application, payroll, the daily time reports, Taft-Hartley and the deposit release run through us. What reaches you is a cast line in the weekly cost report that reads the same in Madrid as in New York.
WHO IT’S FOR
Producers, production companies, and agencies in Spain and Europe bringing features, commercials, or branded content to the U.S. Teams that care about the director’s vision and need the American side handled by people who speak both languages, cinematic and legal.
Whether your team is flying into Los Angeles, building a campaign in Spain, or connecting both markets in one production plan, we help make the process clear, efficient, and creatively protected.
HOW WE RUN IT
Every production runs on the same six-step framework. Brief, plan, shoot, post, delivery, partnership. Discipline is what makes creative work repeatable.
PROOF, NOT PROMISES
“El Gusto del Cloro” (2026). New York service production for a Spanish feature film, shot on location across the city.
“Hijos del Fin del Mundo”. Three-part documentary series, released August 2026 on Movistar Plus+ (Spain). DP and U.S. service producer.
“A Couple of Secrets” (2025). Feature film produced and photographed.
IndyCar Series 2023, NBC Sports. Field units for the most watched season in 12 years.
Partnerships. Sony Music, Toyota, Land Rover, Google, and NBC.
