What we offer

Full-service support for long-form productions

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Character development

We identify, vet and build relationships with the human characters at the centre of your story — well before your production team arrives. We do the trust-building so your first interview day counts.

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Deep background research

Comprehensive written briefing documents, timeline reconstructions, source mapping and contextual analysis — in English. We prepare your team to walk into every interview fully informed.

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Multi-week shoot coordination

Full production logistics management across extended shoots: location scheduling, transportation, accommodation recommendations, crew logistics and daily production support.

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Institutional access

Direct access to the Generalitat de Catalunya, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Parlament, universities, hospitals, courts and NGOs. We navigate institutional bureaucracy so your production timeline stays on track.

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Archive research

Access to the Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya, TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio archives, newspaper libraries and academic research repositories. We locate, licence and deliver historical material.

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Location management

Scout, permit and manage filming locations across Barcelona and Catalonia — from private interiors to public monuments, from working farms to industrial sites. Full recce documentation provided.

Our approach

The work begins before you arrive

The biggest risk on a documentary shoot is arriving to find that a key character has gone cold, a location has changed or an institution has denied access. We eliminate that risk by beginning our work weeks or months before your production date. By the time your director lands in Barcelona, every door we have promised to open is already open.

Albert Mercadé spent two decades building editorial relationships with the politicians, activists, academics and cultural figures who animate Catalan public life. Elisabet Borreda served inside the Generalitat and knows how institutions make decisions about media access. Together we provide a level of pre-production research and facilitation that a production house renting a local fixer for a week simply cannot replicate.

Academic & NGO contacts

Deep networks in civil society

Documentary journalism about Catalonia and Spain requires more than politicians and spokespeople. We have built long-standing relationships with academics at the UPF, UAB, UB and UPC; researchers at think tanks including CIDOB and ICPS; senior figures at organisations including Òmnium Cultural, SOS Racisme and the Sindicat de Llogateres.

We also maintain connections with the city's investigative journalism community — through Elisabet's leadership of the Grup Ramon Barnils — which gives us access to deep-background sources that take years to cultivate.

Key capabilities

What makes us the right documentary partner

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Pre-production research

Detailed briefing packs, character profiles and source maps delivered before your shoot begins. We reduce surprises so your production days are productive.

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Long-term relationship management

We maintain access to subjects across multi-month productions — keeping relationships warm, rescheduling when needed and navigating access refusals diplomatically.

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Story development

We work at the story level, not just the logistics level. We can help develop a story angle, identify the strongest characters and map out a narrative architecture.

Barcelona documentary
fixer & researcher