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Pre-Production Services

The team handles production planning and creative development and logistics which maintain your schedule and budget and creative vision.

Creative Scriptwriting, storyboarding, and pitch-ready treatments.
Logistics Permits, budgeting, scheduling, and crew coordination.
Delivery Production-ready plans with Brazil-wide coverage.
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Planning with Precision

Comprehensive Pre-Production Services

From initial concept to production-ready plans, our team sets the foundation for successful films, TV, commercials, and digital content around the world.

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Creative Excellence

The creative team at TV Globo and Rede Bandeirantes along with international co-production partners worked together to develop scripts and storyboards and visual treatments for the project.

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Strategic Planning

The line producers who created production budgets with Ancine audiovisual incentives included in their planning used Brazilian holiday schedules and union regulations to determine their production timeline.

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Local Expertise

Fixers across all all 5 Brazilian regions—from northern region beaches to mountain villages to coastal area coastlines.

Service Catalog

Our Pre-Production Services

Every phase is covered—creative development, casting, permits, budgeting, crew, logistics, and compliance.

Why Fixers in Brazil

Why Choose Fixers in Brazil for Pre-Production

Integrated creative, logistics, and compliance backed by seasoned producers and local fixers.

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Proven Expertise

Industry-leading team across all formats and budgets, trusted by global broadcasters.

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Fast Response

Rapid 24-48 hour turnarounds for quotes, permits, and scheduling updates.

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Global Network

On-the-ground partners in 100+ countries with local permits handled for you.

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Full Service

End-to-end coverage from concept and casting to legal, logistics, and delivery.

On Location

Brazil Pre-Production Planning Services

São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are Brazil's twin production hubs. Each city makes its own demands of incoming work. Our pre-production work is built around those needs. We handle the full arc from a first concept through budget drafts, permits, and shoot dates.

Schedules built on real Ancine permitting windows and Brazilian crew availability — never optimistic guesses about either.

Brazil's weather shifts a lot from north to south. The coast near Recife and Fortaleza is humid. The highlands around Brasília run drier. Our schedules factor in these zones up front. We treat strong pre-production as the base of each good shoot, big or small.

Storyboards and moodboards set the look before the camera rolls. They give the director and the client a shared view. Our Scriptwriting and Script Consultation teams test the copy on the page. We make sure it plays on screen before you commit a shoot day.

When on-screen talent is needed, our Casting & Talent team digs into pools across São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, and Belo Horizonte. We match each role by who is free, what language they speak, and how much they have on tape.

FAQs

Pre-Production FAQs

Clear answers on timelines, coverage, and how we tailor planning to your production.

What's included in pre-production services?

Here is how this works in practice. Our team gives complete production services which have script breakdown and scheduling and location selection across 5 Brazilian regions and Rio de Janeiro agency casting and crew member selection from our OK'd network and budget development with Brazilian tax incentive calculations and permit submission to Ancine and local prefeituras. You receive a production-ready package which becomes ready before the cameras start filming.

How long does pre-production take?

Here is the short of it. The process of obtaining locations and casting actors and wrapping Ancine forms for feature films needs a minimum of 8 to 12 weeks. The production timeline for commercials stays short because they need only 2 to 4 weeks to finish production when shoot sites have easy access. The process of getting documentary access and conducting interviews decides which film projects filmmakers can start their work on. The team can accelerate project work when needed but Brazilian authority rules about permit processing create key time needs.

Do you work with international productions shooting in Brazil?

That's our specialty. We bridge the gap between global shoots firms and Brazilian crews, vendors, and authorities. Our team handles everything from carnet needs for gear crossing borders to setting up with Brazilian unions and handling the Ancine co-production rules. Most of our clients are UK, US, German, and Asian shoots shooting on Brazilian soil.

Can you work within a specific budget?

Here is the breakdown. The firm creates budgets aligned with local and global standards and have detailed line items that follow the formatting needs of the Brazilian industrial sector. If you have a target number, we'll tell you honestly what's achievable—whether that means adjusting the shooting schedule, finding alternative locations, or restructuring the crew. We'd rather have a frank conversation upfront than deliver surprises later.

What happens if permits get denied or locations fall through?

Here is what that looks like on the ground. It happens, and we plan for it. The location packages we give have backup solutions and we have set up connections with Brazilian property owners and film commissions to handle unexpected changes in filming locations. Our location managers have pulled off same-week replacements for everything from historic estate shoots to Brazilian apartment interiors.

On Set

Ready to Start Your Pre-Production?

We'll build a production-ready plan with detailed budgets, schedules, and permit timelines for your project.