filming paddington bear in costa rica

our experience with paddington

Paddington was the first feature film project of Costa Rica Filming Locations ( see all of our projects here). We had worked as free lancers before and had created the company less than a year ago when we were contacted for this project. Feature films of this size do not get shot in Costa Rica that often     (although we are trying to change that!) so we were very happy when it got confirmed.

This movie had very big names involved, it was for Cinecanal and Hayday Films, produced by the Harry Potter's producer David Heyman and directed by Paul King. It was King's first big movie, but we had seen The Bunny and the Bull and loved it, so we were thrilled of working with him.

We filmed in Monteverde, which is a wonderful location and it's cloud forest was exactly what they were looking for. If you have seen the movie then you will probably remember that Paddington lived in " The darkest Peru" so we had to find that here, and we did.

After several scouts the serious pre production began. All projects are different and in our line of work nothing should really surprise you, but watching our crew make a marmalade machine in the real jungle- among of course, so many other crazy sets- was a very interesting experience. There were many different hard tasks, but between our experienced costarrican crew and the wonderful UK team ( together we were over 120 people!) we made it happen.

If you have not seen the movie we strongly recommend you to go ahead and have a look, as we really loved the final product.

Have a look at this behind the scenes video!:

This is the trailer for the movie: