1. Permits: We help get all the required permits to shoot for the appropriate issuing agencies. We have networks and experts helping us on the ground and ‘friends' in the right places to facilitate permits, if time is a crunch. Government permits would take anywhere between three to six weeks. Border areas and politically sensitive subjects would take more. Aerial shooting permits are difficult to get and one should budget at least three to six months for them.

We discourage clients from working in India without the necessary filming permits.

2. Subject research: Our areas of strength are environment, conservation and culture but we have worked on other non-related areas too. We would put together a team of expert researchers to dig all the information needed by you.

3. Location scout: Given our film-making experience, we could creatively input on location selection, integrating a location with the people and the story to be filmed. We could send across scout DV footage from the location to facilitate production decisions.

4. Budgeting: This is our area of specialisation. Having put in years of experience managing budgets for our independent films, we now have substantial experience handling budgets of over half a million dollars per project.

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5. Crew and gear hire: Many developed country production houses have been pleasantly surprised by the quality of work from Indian crews. We have put together crews with work experience on international projects, who could also be hugely cost-effective as compared with their counterparts in other countries. We encourage clients to use local crews without compromising quality; in some cases actually enhancing it. Also, in India, you could hire state-of-the-art cameras and sound gear on very competitive rates.

6. Logisitcs: We have experience in setting up total logistics for all scales of production.

We offer to organise all transportation including specialised equipment or crew vehicles and chartered flights, accommodation at competitive rates through special arrangements with the best hotels, organise cellphones and wireless for intra-crew communications and air and train ticketing. We have experience in handling up to 500 room nights, moving over 100 production personnel across Indian cities and providing 150 cellphones in one project.

7. Facilitation during shoots: We provide field producers and facilitators during shoots. They not only help as interpreters but also have deep knowledge of film production to help smoothen production bumps.

8. Set designing: We have experience in hooking up our clients with art directors and set designers to suit all projects and all budgets. We have worked with some of the biggest and best people in the business.

9. Office facilities: We could provide equipped offices with connectivity, DTP and all other conveniences and systems.

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