Producer guides
Straight answers about filming in Ethiopia
Permits, customs, seasons, festivals, costs and how to pick a fixer. Written for people building a schedule and a budget.
How to get a filming permit in Ethiopia
To film professionally in Ethiopia you need permission at three levels: federal authorisation for media and filming, regional approval from the bureau of culture and tourism in eac…
6 min readBringing film equipment to Ethiopia
Professional film equipment must be declared and temporarily imported into Ethiopia, and it must leave with the crew that brought it. You need a serial-numbered manifest prepared b…
5 min readThe best time to film in Ethiopia
The best time to film in Ethiopia is October to March, after the main rains and before the hot pre-rain months. The main rainy season, kiremt, runs roughly June to September and ma…
5 min readWhat does a film fixer in Ethiopia cost?
There is no single day rate for a film fixer in Ethiopia, because the same word covers a translator with a car and a full line producer carrying a six-figure budget. What drives th…
5 min readWhat to film in Ethiopia
Ethiopia offers international productions four things few other countries have together: living heritage that has been continuously practised for over a thousand years, endemic wil…
6 min readHow to choose a film fixer in Ethiopia
A good film fixer in Ethiopia should be able to show you named productions they have delivered, break a quote into government fees, third-party costs and their own fee, tell you pl…
4 min readStart a production
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