Texas Crew films new TV series in Brazil

Texas Crew are busy working on a new series for one of the Discovery network channels. It is taking them all around the world, in search of interesting characters. We’re itching to share more details of the adventures we had on location with them. But we can’t! Not until the show airs in May. So watch this space.

What we can say, though, is that the Brazil shoot took in two locations: the first in the northern suburbs of Rio de Janeiro; and from there, we went straight to Bahia, a coastal state in the Northeast, to a small town called Monte Santo, a 4-hour drive into the interior of the state.

Accompanying a field producer from Texas Crew, the Story Productions team included two camera operators, a camera assistant, producer, fixer and two production assistants, one from Rio and one from Bahia.

Our international clients look to us to provide local expertise – from language to filming permits, logistics and location scouting. But in a country the size of Brazil, “local expertise” is a relative term. Which is why Story Productions works with a country-wide network of researchers, fixers and producers to guarantee that our local expertise is as local as it gets.

In three days, filming both on the streets, at the beach and in private residences, we captured footage for two ten-minute segments of Texas Crew’s new series. It was an intense but productive schedule. None of the interviewees spoke English so our fixer doubled as interpreter, translating the Texas Crew field producer’s questions and the answers in real time.