We are honored to share that Costa Rica Filming Locations was the first company to work on a Tax Rebate project in Costa Rica!. We had the wonderful opportunity to be pioneers hand to hand with the UK company Worker Bee and its incredible team. 

Worker Bee´s team reached us in September of 2023 and we started working on finding the best locations for Netflix´s show Celebrity Bear Hunt. The whole process was absolutely brilliant and we will keep this shooting memories always close to our hearts. The shoot was a success in every single way because it had a great cast, fantastic locations that held hundreds and a hard working team.

Tax rebate is now available in Costa Rica for any project that will spend over $500k in the country. Costa Rica offers to give back the 90% of the taxes spent in 90 working days. You can contact us to guide you trough the process and start making your project a reality.

Filming reality shows in Costa Rica is one of our main strengths. We have shot all sort of reality projects, from House Hunters International for HGTV passing for all sort of medium size projects for Nat Geo, Discovery or Netflix, to bigger scale realities that demanded hundreds of crew members on site such as Keeping up with the Kardashians or getting muddy in the jungle with our friend Bear Grylls.

Giving film support in Costa Rica for reality shows like the ones that host Bear Grylls is Manu- our Location Manager- top joy. Do you need the most remote looking location but someone that can get you there? Do you want to add wifi to that? Well... Manoohar Tahilramani is the person that you need besides you. Helicopters, waterfalls, rivers, jungle, beaches and challenges, you will have it all.

Violeta Grancelli, our Line Producer, on another hand, is the person that you want looking after your budget when the challenges team is planning for the impossible. She will deliver and make sure the budget is well looked after, finding the best ways of making it go the extra mile. 

As a combo we will make sure our clients get the most amazing locations, the best on set results, and leave happy not only with the filming experience in Costa Rica, but also because the show will be fantastic, and on a budget! 

During February and March of 2022 we had the pleasure of working with amazing people, both from Costa Rica and from abroad. As part of our pre production tasks we had to find characters that could represent best the amazing people from Nicoya Peninsula, which often are close (or over) 100 years old and still not only living, but working, interaction with their families, cooking, riding horses, etc.

Filming in Costa Rica can be a wonderful and life changing experience, and we think this project certainly inspired all of us to pay attention to our daily habits, appreciate family and the beauty in the simple things.

The locations for this project, shot in Guanacaste, were mostly the houses of the characters. Some of them lived quite remotely so good logistics were put in place to make sure we could have a time efficient schedule along with the crew.

The production company Make Make simply sent a wonderful crew that were beautiful to the centenarians and eager to learn about the costarrican culture and worked along brilliantly with our Costa Rica Filming Location crew, which is the filming crew you want to be with when in Costa Rica. So talk about a magic combo!

The result: a wonderful series for Netflix, that you do not want to miss!

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