TIS Studios has opened Stage 7, a new 18,300-square-foot soundstage at its Bogotá production complex, increasing its capacity to accommodate large-scale international film and TV productions in Colombia.
Standing 40 feet high, the facility is described as Colombia’s largest soundstage and one of the biggest in Latin America.
The launch marks the latest expansion of TIS Studios, the long-established Colombian-Mexican Studio whose activities span original content, production services, postproduction and international distribution.
“TIS Studios brings highly trained crews, international production standards and the protocols to manage large-scale projects, all backed by nearly three decades of delivering premium content,” said Samuel Duque, president of TIS Studios.
“Stage 7 adds to that foundation. Combined with Colombia’s production incentives, it gives producers, showrunners and production studios around the world one more reason to bring their most ambitious projects here.”
Stage 7 is integrated into TIS Studios’ Bogotá production lot, which includes seven other stages, among them a dedicated casting studio. The complex also features standing sets including a prison, a restaurant and a furnished house interior, together with a three-level backlot with interchangeable façades.
The new stage is fully soundproofed and equipped with a technical grid and climate-control systems designed for scripted and unscripted shoots. Productions also have access to green rooms, offices, wardrobe and makeup areas, catering facilities, props and set-dressing warehouses and on-site parking.
The site houses postproduction facilities offering cloud-based editing, color correction, visual effects and Dolby Atmos-certified sound mixing. According to the company, those services qualify under Colombia’s national production incentive.
The opening comes after TIS Studios hosted guests of this year’s Bogotá Audiovisual Market (BAM), Colombia’s leading film and TV industry gathering.
The expansion builds on TIS Studios’ track record of projects for major global platforms and networks including Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Paramount, CBS Studios, MTV, Fox Television Studios, Nickelodeon, NBCUniversal and Telemundo.
TIS Studios is headquartered in Bogotá and also maintains a production office in Mexico City, as well as operations in Miami. It provides services across more than 16 countries in the region.
Its current slate includes the fourth season of Telemundo’s “Sin Senos Sí Hay Paraíso” and the second season of Netflix’s “Medusa.”
In Mexico, TIS recently produced Netflix microseries “Entre Padre e Hijo,” whose 10-minute episodes were released earlier this year, while a second short-form title, “Proyecto Final,” is due to premiere later this month. It also co-produced Netflix’s “The Good Wife” Mexican adaptation, “La Ley de Alicia,” with CBS Studios.
The company also handles international distribution of “Futuro Desierto,” the Netflix series produced by Gaumont. It’s part of a catalog of more than 4,500 hours of content in international distribution.
(Anna Marie de la Fuente contributed to this article)
