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Nonprofit video production in Latin America & the Caribbean

Your programs are in Latin America. Your story should be too. Start with 3 free videos.

Book a free Field Storytelling Session. We record someone on your team in Latin America, a beneficiary or a local partner over Zoom, in Spanish, Portuguese or English, and our editors turn it into 3 finished, subtitled videos. No cost. No crew. Yours to keep.

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Sound familiar?

The work is in Honduras. The person who has to turn it into a video is in Houston.

Latin America is where a huge share of US nonprofit programs actually run, and where the least footage comes back from.

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A drive full of Spanish interviews nobody has cut

Your country director filmed the harvest, the clinic opening and the graduation. It's beautiful, and untouched.

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One trip a year, three programs, four days

The comms lead flies down once, and that b-roll has to carry every appeal for twelve months.

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Subtitles that miss the meaning

A translation that flattens the joke, or turns animal feed into food, quietly loses a funder.

ME

“Totally, really smooth. I would definitely recommend working with them again. Just, like, no concerns at all. Really professional, timely.”

Mackinnon Engen, Executive Director, Watsi, on our Medellín crew

KC

“We're living in a world where video is king. And we can't just up and travel to get the content that we need. So Happy Productions was an answered prayer that fell in our lap.”

Kalindi Cordero, Search for Common Ground

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In their words

Teams with programs across the region, in their own words.

Heifer International needed a donor delegation week in Honduras turned into films. Watsi needed a partner clinic in Medellín filmed by a bilingual crew. Worldreader needed families in Lima on camera. Here is what they told us.

163,000views in the first week for Heifer in Honduras

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Field Storytelling Session. Free.

One person, one Zoom call, three finished videos, in Spanish or English.

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Your cost

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What you get

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A 45-minute Zoom recordingSomeone on your team, a beneficiary or a partner. A Happy producer guides every answer, in Spanish, Portuguese or English.
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3 finished, subtitled videosSubtitled in English and Spanish, ready for your appeal, your partners and your report.
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Safe, and yours to keepRelease forms in Spanish or Portuguese. You keep the videos and the raw recording.

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Love the videos? We'll plan your next production on the ground. Don't? Keep them anyway.

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Video 2

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Three ways to start

Three ways to get footage out of Latin America

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Briefing during a Heifer delegation week in Honduras

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Field Storytelling Session

We record one person in the region over Zoom and our editors turn it into 3 finished, subtitled videos.

45-minute producer-guided Zoom recording
3 finished videos in Spanish and English
Anyone on your team, a beneficiary or a partner
Yours to keep, files and raw footage

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Surgical team at a partner clinic in Medellín

Most requested

Bilingual local crew

A bilingual local videographer films your program, clinic or delegation visit, with our producer on the brief.

Shot list and questions in Spanish
Release forms in Spanish or Portuguese
Spanish-language interviews
Footage in a shared folder you own within days

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Farmland valley in Honduras from the air

For appeals

Delegation and appeal package

Delegation weeks and site visits turned into recap films, per-subject cuts and social carousels.

Shot list built backwards from your appeal date
English and Spanish versions from one shoot
Vertical cuts for every channel
Donor and partner thank-yous

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Where we work

Where we work in Latin America & the Caribbean

Oaxaca

Honduras

Jamaica

Medellín

Lima

Buenos Aires

Porto Alegre

In the past year we have produced in Lima with a local crew, in Medellín with a bilingual local crew, in Honduras with a donor delegation (dairy, coffee and beekeeping cooperatives, and a stop at Copán) and in Buenos Aires with a local videographer who captured thirty interviews in a day. On Mexico's Oaxaca coast we filmed a sea-turtle sanctuary and a night patrol, in Jamaica we filmed communities rebuilding after a hurricane, and we have also filmed in Mexico City, Puerto Rico and Porto Alegre, Brazil.

MexicoGuatemalaHondurasEl SalvadorNicaraguaCosta RicaPanamaColombiaEcuadorPeruBoliviaBrazilParaguayArgentinaChileDominican RepublicHaitiJamaicaPuerto Rico

Headquartered in Mexico City, Bogotá, Lima, São Paulo or Buenos Aires? We work with organizations based in Latin America the same way: a local crew we have vetted, our producer on the brief, our editors on the cut, and distribution through the Are You Happy? audience when the story fits. Time zones are our normal.

Built for the region

What every production in the region includes

Spanish and English versions

An English version for US donors and a Spanish one for partners, from the same shoot.

Translation checked for meaning

Subtitles checked by someone who knows concentrado is animal feed, not food.

Bilingual local crews

Videographers who interview in Spanish, Portuguese or Kreyòl and brief with us in English.

Consent first

Release forms in Spanish or Portuguese, signed on a phone before the interview.

Planned around delegations

Delegation weeks, site visits and events planned backwards from the date.

You own the footage

You keep every finished file and all the raw footage.

Beyond video

What we film for nonprofits working in Latin America

One production day becomes a library: the hero film for the gala, the 45-second cut for the appeal email, twelve verticals for the feed, and the two-minute piece in Spanish your partners will actually share.

Impact stories and beneficiary films

A year-end and appeal calendar

Sea turtle sanctuary in Escobilla, Oaxaca

Site visits and delegation recaps

Clips for impact and grant reports

Spanish, Portuguese and English versions

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How it works

How a shoot in Latin America works with us

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Tell us where you work

Your programs, your countries and your next appeal date.

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FREE

Start with the free session

We record one person over Zoom and deliver 3 subtitled videos, free.

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A bilingual crew films

One production day, a shot list in Spanish, our producer on WhatsApp from call time to wrap.

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We edit and distribute

Cuts subtitled in English and Spanish, featured to the Are You Happy? audience when the story fits.

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Compare

Three ways to get footage out of Latin America

	Fly a crew from the States	Country team films on phones	Happy Productions
What it takes	4 to 6 days door to door for one shoot day	Staff time, until someone has to cut it	1 day on the ground, briefed the week before
What it really costs	Flights, a fixer, a translator, a van, per diems for everyone	Staff time, and an edit nobody can finish	One local day rate, plus our producer and our editors
Who is behind the camera	A crew seeing the place for the first time	Program staff, brilliant at their job, doing a second one	A bilingual local videographer who knows the neighborhood, drone where permitted
Releases and permissions	Handled, at crew rates	Usually missing	Handled before we shoot
Language on set	Through a translator	Native, with wind in the mic	Spanish-language interviews
What you end up with	One shoot's b-roll, stretched all year	Clips nobody can cut	A library your team can post from, and you own every frame

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Field notes

Nonprofit video production, country by country in Latin America

Bilingual crews, Spanish-language interviews, English subtitles checked for meaning rather than words. Here is where we have actually filmed.

Delegation visit to a cooperative in Honduras

Field note

Video production in Honduras: Copán and the cooperatives

February 2026, with Heifer International and a donor delegation: dairy, coffee and beekeeping cooperatives, a feed processing plant, and Copán as the cultural stop. Everything in Spanish with English subtitles, and the translation checked by someone who knows that concentrado is animal feed, not food, the kind of error that quietly loses a funder. The week became trip recap films, per-subject documentary cuts and social carousels.

Field note

Video production in Peru: Lima

June 2026 in San Miguel and Pueblo Libre with a Lima production company: four family locations, about two hours each, crew call at 08:30. Families were not given the questions in advance. A local volunteer suggested what to look at, which guides the focus without scripting the answers. Footage was uploaded three days after the shoot, transcribed the next day, and first cuts were boarded the day after that.

Field note

Video production in Colombia: Medellín

July 2026 at a partner clinic with a bilingual Medellín videographer. Scripts were grouped by location so the day moved in one direction, a teleprompter was used where the client needed exact wording, and staff interviews were captured the same afternoon. The client's verdict afterwards was that it was professional and efficient, which, on a hospital day, is the whole review. We returned in October 2026 when Watsi brought donors to the clinic, and we have also filmed a homeowner's story in Colombia for Build Change.

Field note

Video production in Argentina: Buenos Aires and Quilmes

A local videographer in Quilmes captured around thirty interviews in a single day with the youngest Lions club in the district, whose president was 23. The footage was deliberately exposed dark to protect highlights, and our colorist lifted it in the grade rather than the camera burning it out on the day.

Field note

Video production in Mexico: Oaxaca

December 2025 on the Oaxaca coast for SEE Turtles: a night patrol with red headlamps, a sanctuary beach, a caretaker who used to poach the nests he now protects. Twelve documentary cuts, all Spanish-subtitled with a second translation pass before release. In Mexico City our creator network filmed a dozen interviews for Search for Common Ground.

Hillside homes under tarp roofs in Jamaica

Field note

Video production in Jamaica

December 2025 for GoodPower's climate series: drone over hillside communities living under tarp roofs after the hurricane, and rooftop solar going in over the tarps.

Field note

Video production in Puerto Rico

November 2024 for Baitulmaal: on-camera interviews, including a doctor, plus b-roll, filmed on the island.

Field note

Video production in Brazil: Porto Alegre

For GoodPower's climate series our creator network filmed interviews in Porto Alegre with people whose homes were damaged in the floods.

Field note

Also across the region

Our network reaches Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and we have filmed Lions clubs in Paraguay. If your programs run somewhere we have not filmed yet, sourcing and vetting a local crew usually takes about two weeks.

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Plant manager at a dairy cooperative — Honduras

Surgical team at a partner clinic — Medellín, Colombia

Public proof

Filmed on the ground for organizations you know

Heifer International: a delegation week in Honduras and 163,000 views in the first week. Worldreader: four families filmed in one day in Lima. Watsi: a partner clinic in Medellín. Lions Clubs International: 30 interviews in a single Buenos Aires shoot. Build Change: a homeowner story in Colombia and 285,000+ organic reach. Reach figures are organic, reported by clients or measured on the Are You Happy? channels.

HondurasPeruColombiaArgentinaMexicoJamaicaPuerto RicoBrazil

Read the Heifer Honduras case study · Read the Watsi case study

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Real client videos

Stories we told with partners in the region

Real client videos from organizations working across Latin America and beyond.

163,000Views in the first weekHeifer International, Honduras

285,000+Organic reachBuild Change

500,000+Organic reachSearch for Common Ground

5.6M+Views on one videoLions Clubs International

Who we work with

Built for organizations working across the region

US nonprofitsWith programs across Latin America

FoundationsFunding programs in the region

Latin American NGOsBased in Mexico City, Bogotá, Lima or São Paulo

Delegation and travel programsBringing donors to see the work

Networks and federationsWith clubs and partners in many countries

Questions

Questions we get about filming in Latin America

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Is the free session really free?+

Yes. The Zoom session and the three videos our editors cut from it cost nothing. No contract, no card, and you keep every file with no obligation to buy anything afterwards. Book your free session and see your story on screen.

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What happens on the free session?+

You pick one person close to your work, and our producer interviews them live over Zoom for forty-five minutes while we record. Our editors then turn that conversation into three finished, captioned videos for your website, your social channels and your next appeal. All you have to do is show up, so book your free session.

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Do you fly a crew in, or hire locally?+

Usually not. We hire vetted local crews from our network of more than 20,000 creators in over 130 countries, and our producer directs them live on the day. Your story is filmed by people who know the language and the place, and your free session is where we plan it.

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Can you make Spanish and English versions?+

Yes. Interviews run in whatever language the speaker is most comfortable in, and every video ships with subtitles plus any second language you need, from Spanish and French to Swahili, Arabic and Haitian Creole. Tell us your audiences on your free session and we'll plan every version.

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Who can we put on camera (staff, a beneficiary, a grantee overseas)?+

Anyone whose story moves people: your director, a program lead, a volunteer, someone your program served, or a grantee overseas joining from a phone. Our producer guides every answer, so nobody needs camera experience or a script. Bring your people to a free session and we'll handle the rest.

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How do you protect the people on camera?+

Every shoot is planned around consent and dignity. People sign releases in their own language, we never show minors' names or identifying details, and anyone sharing something sensitive reviews it before it goes live. Your safeguarding policy always overrides ours, starting with your free session.

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How long until we get the videos?+

Your three free videos land in your inbox within two weeks of your session, with a simple review link if you want a change. For bigger shoots, we plan backwards from your gala, board meeting or appeal date. Tell us the date on your free session.

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We're based in Latin America. Can you work with us?+

Yes. NGOs and foundations from Nairobi to Manila to Bogotá work with us the same way: a local crew, our producer and our editors, with review calls set in your working hours. Your free session runs on Zoom, wherever you are.

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Can you use footage our field teams already shot?+

Yes. Send us the link, whether it's a hard drive from the field, a shared folder or years of workshop recordings, and we'll cut it into new videos. Pair it with fresh interviews from your free session and your archive finally works for you.

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Who owns the videos?+

You do. Your organization owns the finished videos and all of the raw footage, including everything we record on your free session. Use them on any channel, in any report, for as long as you like.

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