Drama Series Production

Here is how this works in practice. Our team gives full production support for drama series, setting up crew, gear and location logistics across an entire episode schedule. We assemble departments set to sustaining quality over long shooting blocks — cinematography, art, costume, hair and makeup, grip and electric — drawing on South Africa's mature crew base skilled on global episodic shoots. Our line producers structure efficient multi-episode schedules that block by location, manage stage and backlot booking at Cape Town Film Studios and other facilities, and keep scene matching tight across the run with skilled script supervisors and department heads.

Here is the short of it. We set up casting through set up South African casting directors, source camera and lighting packages locally, and handle the DTIC production rebates records that global and co-production drama relies on. From period pieces to today's and top streaming series, we deliver the sustained operational running episodic drama demands, from the first day of principal photography through wrap.

Here is the breakdown. South Africa, and Cape Town in specific, has become a major base for global drama series. Cape Town Film Studios — a full-service studio tricky — hosted the pirate epic 'Black Sails' and the science-fiction series 'Raised by Wolves'. The surrounding crew base is deep, top-tier and competitively priced. The DTIC has long administered a film-production rebates, in the past rebating around 25 percent of qualifying South African expenditure for foreign shoots, with an uplift for post-prod completed in the country. The favourable rand exchange rate stretches series budgets further, English is the working language of the industry, and the UTC+2 SAST time zone suits European production offices.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Location range is top: Cape Town doubles for many periods and places, the winelands give historic estates, and the Karoo, Drakensberg and Garden Route extend the palette — letting drama series find today's and period settings without leaving the country.