Colombia offers many advantages to audiovisual productions:

• Diverse geography and landscapes

• Novelty: most of the scenery has yet to be used in large and medium-scale international audiovisual productions

• Architectural variety: colonial villages, monuments, modern cities

• A variety of climates available all year long: snowy peaks, cold weather, paramos (Andean moors), temperate and hot regions

• Close to cities such as Los Angeles (7:40 hours), New York (5:30 hours), Miami (3 hours), Toronto (6 hours), Mexico City (4:30 hours), Buenos Aires (6:10 hours), Santiago de Chile (5 hours), Sao Pablo (5:45 hours), Paris(10:30 hours), Madrid (10 hours), London (11:40 hours).

• Lower production costs compared with other countries, especially when it comes to food and lodging, locations, transportation and travel, specialized local talent, extras, equipment rentals, all kinds of studios (television, audio recording studios, etc.)

• Fiscal stimuli for co-productions with local companies.  Deductions on certain taxes such as VAT taxes, as outlined in laws designed to promote service exports.

• Extremely experienced television professionals (considered some of the best in Latin America with programs exported to over eighty countries), advertising professionals (working in national and international agencies and production houses that produce an average of thirty international spots per year) and film professionals (2008 saw the release of thirteen Colombian films that have won awards and appeared in international festivals all over the Americas and Europe).

• A variety of races and physiques provide a much richer palette for casting.