For the professional production on unfamiliar turf – ZagaraFilms speaks your language and theirs.

We’re an Italy based, English speaking, one-stop television production company. Our highly-experienced team of producers, fixers, camera crew and editors are led by Emmy® award winning Australian producer-director Gareth Harvey. We’re multi-lingual (English, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese & Russian) and work in all Hi-Def formats as well as standard-definition. We specialize in documentaries, newsmagazine reports & news features – but are adept at everything from breaking news to commercials, as well as corporate & training videos.

We’ll handle every aspect of your production requirements from research & setting-up through to field-production and final cut – anywhere in Europe, the Middle-East, Africa or Asia. Whether it’s ‘run and gun’ fieldwork – or a major location setup – you call the shots, we’ll make it happen. As well as production, our in-house correspondent Jo McKenna can report or cover two-ways for our news clients. We’ll even help facilitate co-productions with our other international clients.

We can source any and all camera equipment and lighting throughout Europe and also arrange editing facilities, studios and satellite links.

Zagara films has been operating out of Italy for the past 10 years and has an impressive list of credits. Its clients include National Geographic Television, The Seven Network Australia, 60 Minutes Australia, Discovery Channel, HD Net, Channels 4 & 5 in the UK, and other prestigious international broadcasters & production companies. Our team of producers, journalists, shooters and fixers have decades of experience between them at the highest level of television production.

Production Services

Fixers: Setting up the full range of shooting situations in Italy for visiting crews and production teams – from breaking news coverage to documentary historical recreations. Arranging all permitting, interviewees, research, accommodation, transport and logistics.

Bilingual Crews: DOP, cameramen, sound-engineers, gaffers, grips – from one-man-band to full location crews.

Producer/Directors: To work with visiting crews and correspondents, or produce as required.

Correspondent: Covering or providing comment on events in Italy and Europe, either pre-taped or live.

Equipment: Sourcing all television/video production equipment at Italy’s most competitive rates.

Editing, satellite & studio facilities: Advising clients on facility-providers most in tune with non-Italian television production requirements.

Full Production: Setting up, shooting, directing and all post-production to order, including:

Breaking news reports

News features

Long-form reports

Documentaries

Large-scale historical recreations (including actors, set & costume designers, etc.)