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| November 2011 |
| Jeff Roberts, senior producer of Media Services Department contacted PVF for assistance for an upcoming documentary being partially filmed in Costa Rica in the beginning of 2012. |
| October 2011 |
| PVF's Ray Peschke took delivery of two EPIC X and two SCARLET cameras. |
| September 2011 |
| Production manager Nancy Dahl from Clockwork 906 Inc. contacted PuraVida Films for beach- and city locations for their upcoming commercials. |
| April 2011 |
| Producer Kirsten Flores and two of her production people flew to Costa Rica to scout for an adventure show for the travel channel. PVF is helping them to find locations, sort out customs, insurance, housing, transportation, communications and the filming. |
| March 2011 |
| Donna Tracy of Omni Cosm Studios who is developing a large format (Imax) film : " Journey to a Black Hole 3D " contacted PVF to possible production-service the shoot. She was travelling to Costa Rica to see some of the PVF-recommended locations and to meet people and crew. |
| January - March 2011 |
| Ray Peschke shot a feature film " The United " for Disney in Amman, Jordan with the help of PVF's sister company " Sandbag Productions ". The film is getting worldwide release. |
| June - October 2010 |
Ray Peschke travelled to San Jose and introduced more RED camera equipment for use in Costa Rica.
Also added to PVF's arsenal were : Canon 5Ds and 7Ds with several L - series lenses. |
| March - June 2010 |
| PVF partnered with Underwater Productions. Gabriel Jimenez Monestel directed many great dives which resulted in hours of stock footage and hundreds of photos. The material was then incorporated into PVF's files. |
| January - February 2010 |
Producer Laura Lemkowitz sent her Photographer Jim with a small crew from New York for a week's shoot to Costa Rica. PVF's Gabriel Monestel arranged and supervised everything for their project. By taking on the production service duties PVF made it a very successful and enjoyable shoot.
Laura, Jim and their crew were extremely happy and said: " The trip was a huge success and we can't thank you ( PVF ) enough". |
| January - March 2010 |
| PVF in discussions about locations and budget and crew for bringing the production of " BLUE CRUSH " to Costa Rica. After weeks of scouting and budgeting most of the film went to Hawaii and South Africa, although Costa Rica was the most cost effective choice. |
| April/May
2009 |
Ray Peschke promoted his RED ONE Cameras to several producers and also tried to convince their filmmakers to consider stereoscopic 3- D Productions for their Projects. With Ray's expertise in 3-D stereoscopic productions and his 6 RED cameras and some of the newest 3-D rigs at his main offices in Hollywood he could jump start Costa Rica's stereoscopic productions. |
| January
2009 |
| Ray
Peschke went to Costa Rica to promote the
new RED camera packages. Ray also met with
accomplished director/producer Mauricio
Mendiola to discuss the RED cameras
for his upcoming film. |
| December
2008 |
The US/German production company
"Orange Sky"
under the helm of producer Joseph
Lieck asked PVF for location
photos for their upcoming feature
film, set on an island in the Caribbean.
The 2 main locations needed: a 'ritzi'
villa - a rock star retreat - and
a romantic fishing village.
Ray Peschke and
Gabriel Jimenez Monestel
were scouting for several weeks
and returned with hundreds of photos
of possible locations. Gorgeous
villas with $10 million + price
tags are available to PVF for very
low rental fees.
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| June
- November 2008 |
Location Scouting and budgeting
for several production companies from the
US and Europe. Pascal Leister
with Lodestar Films was
among the directors to have Ray and PVF
scout Costa Rica. And director Tommy
Reid is looking for locations standing
in for Hawaii for his upcoming thriller
PVF's RED cameras lensed their first feature
film "THE WHIFFLER"
with great success. Several commercials,
music videos and short films were also filmed
with the incredible 4K resolution RED cameras.
For more on the RED, visit www.Red1Mobil.com |
| April/May
2008 |
| Lionsgate and Mike Upton asked
PVF to find locations for their upcoming feature
film "The Forrest of Mirrors". The
film takes place in Guatemala in the early
60's. Ray Peschke and production manager Gabriel
Yimenez took over 100 photographs during a
full week of scouting to find locations that
would evoke the look of Guatemala in that
time period. After returning to the U.S. Ray
met with Lionsgate's producers to present
the photographs and a preliminary budget for
the shoot in Costa Rica. Starting date for
the shoot is to be determined. |
| February
2008 |
| An
Icelandic Production Company approached
PVF about providing locations and logistics
for a feature film project slanted for June
2008. Their needs include a coffee plantation
and a pristine beach.
 
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| October
2007 |
| Famed
producer Joseph Sassone appoached PVF for
his feature film project: "Relentless".
The picture is set entirely in the rainforrest
and is going to be shot early next year. |
| September
2007 |
| PVF
helped ABC/Disney on a segment for the famed
reporter Barbara Walters. PVF handles transportation,
crew, equipment and office services. Shooting
is projected to take place in December. |
| April
- June 2007 |
| RAY
PESCHKE travelled to the Mideast, a up-and-coming
film destination. He made connections in
Lebanon (Film Platform Productions) and
Jordan (Sandbag Productions). PVF established
especially close ties with Fadi Saraf, executive
producer of Sandbag Productions in the efforts
to promote both countries as film destinations
with fantastic and diverse locations, good
crews, safe environments and plenty of local
talent. |
| December
2006 - March 2007 |
| RAY
PESCHKE went twice to Europe to promote
PVF and Costa Rrica as a film destination.
There was lots of interest especially from
Italy, Germany and Holland. |
| October
2006
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| THE
TRIBE, which was shot in Costa Rica, was
shown as a first rough cut to the applause
of everybody. Especially all the great locations
have gotten rave reviews. |
| September
2006 |
| PVF
ordered 3 REDONE cameras, with lots of lenses
and all the necessary accessories.
It apparentlly will be THE state of the
art camera, with 4K and 2K and HD formats.
These cameras will surpass everything on
the market. they will make shooting in Costa
Rica more affordable, easier and in terms
of quality the best option available. Stay
tuned , for more information go to RED.COM.
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| August
2006 |
PVF added JUAN GABRIEL JIMENEZ MONESTEL
to their roster of staff members. He studied
in Mexico, speaks fluent English and has
already a long list of credits in the
film industry on his resume.
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| July
2006 |
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Ray Peschke of Pura Vida Films and Ben
Stiller, who had worked together previously
on 'The Cable Guy'.
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Ray Peschke and Pura Vida
Films were approached by Ben Stiller about
an action comedy set in Vietnam - TROPIC
THUNDER. Ray had the ideal locations in
Costa Rica and PVF's budget was about half
the amount this project would cost being
filmed in Hawaii. Unfortunately that film
was postponed indefinetly, due to the on-going
re-structuring of DREAMWORKS.
Now Ray worked again with
Ben Stiller on TENACIOUS D AND THE PICK
OF DESTINY and the re-shoots.
During that time he was
approached yet again for another film project
that called for a jungle location - which
PVF has now secured. 300 acres surrounding
a 5-star hotel about 20 minutes from the
international airport in San Jose. PVF is
standing by to take the producers and director
to a short scout in Costa Rica . |
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| May
- July 2006 |
| After a few weeks
of preperations a six week shoot took place.
Despite the rainy season it was a very successful
production - check out: thetribemovie.blogspot.com.
PVF wishes theTRIBE a very successful and
creative post production and looks forward
to the release of the film . |
| April
2006 |
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| Ray Peschke and
the "tribe people" - now also including
their stunt coordinator and production designer
- went to Costa Rica for a one week scout. |
PVF found all their locations
within days and meetings with key people such
as AD, sound mixer, keygrip, gaffer, etc.
were set up . |
The 'tribe people' were also
very happy with the accomodation PVF set up
for them. |
| March
2006 |
January
2006 |
| Producers Mohit Ramchandani,
Joel Sadilek and director Jorg Ihle contacted
Ray Peschke of PURA VIDA FILMS about shooting
their film "THE TRIBE"
in Costa Rica instead of Mexico, where the
locations would have been too remote and where
production costs would have been much higher.
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Nydrle Productions
is interested in Costa Rica as the backdrop
for a commercial for a famous beauty product.
PVF is scouting locations and is working on
a budget for this first class production. |
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