Written by The Location Guide on Mar 30, 2021. Posted in General Interest

Advertorial: Filming in Bogota

Bogotá has unique landscapes, exceptional settings and spaces, unusual architectural styles that capture you, the city shines a great variety of urban environments between the old, the classic and the modern. Bogotá has 5.134 public parks for residents in the city and foreign visitors.

Bogotá also offers all the infrastructure of a capital city, but it is also possible to find at only two hours away mountains, lagoons, waterfalls, deserts, tropical and moor forests, versatile and accessible places.

Bogotá has studios and rental companies with professional experienced, skilled talent available at competitive rates, cast and crew are fluent in english, stages with all the latest equipment and facilities.

The Bogotá Film Commission is a program of District Institute for the Arts - Idartes, which aims to strengthen Bogotá's audiovisual industries, position the city as a film destination and guide and facilitate filming in the public space in the capital, through the Permit Unified audiovisual filming (PUFA).

¿WHY SHOOT IN BOGOTÁ?

Bogotá Film Commission has a variable percentage in the exemptions for projects benefiting from Law 1556 of 2012.
Foreign film productions will be granted a 50% exemption from the total value of the permit and foreign TV productions will be granted a 20% exemption from the total value of the permit.

Colombia offers incentives for audiovisual projects fully or partially developed in the country.

• 40% cash rebate of the expenses in audiovisual services provided by Colombian companies, and 20% of the expenses of logistics services in the country.
  

The audiovisual projects that can participate: Film works, Series and Music Videos in production

• 35% transferable tax credit of the expenses in audiovisual and logistics services provided by Colombian companies in the country.

The audiovisual projects that can participate: Film works, Series, Music Videos, Video Games and Advertising Audiovisual Production in Production and postproduction.

Contact:   Paula Villegas Hincapié, Subdirectora de las Artes - IDARTES
                       paula.villegas@idartes.gov.co