Caribbean based international company offering comprehensive service for the multimedia industry

The "Caribbean Production" network spreads over many islands and the creative input combined with excellent technical know-how allows the company to produce amazing film, video, commercials and photo shootings across the Caribbean region.

Founder of the Caribbean Production Company is Ellen Hoch-Kramer who has acquired, managed and produced a significant amount of film, music, video, television commercials, and photo productions for clients from all over the world. Her Master’s degree in ‘Visual Communication’ is from Berlin University of Arts in Germany, she has also studied ‘Commercial Art’ in New Haven, CT/USA, and gained knowledge about media business in Paris, France.

Experience in international lifestyle magazine publishing, running a full-service-advertising agency with focus on high-end consumer products and music video productions was the base to build this business. With this wide range background from creative concept to production and distribution, she relocated to the Caribbean Island of Barbados 25 years ago and established the full-service media production company - French St. Martin followed as a second base - both islands have major international airports with direct flights from various cities in the US, Canada, UK and the rest of Europe.

The business is growing ever since and production contracts for international movies, commercial videos and photo shootings were soon to be executed in Barbados - St. Martin, and other Caribbean islands followed. A young local Caribbean crew is learning all aspects of media productions and in combination with extensive marketing of Barbados as the ideal location for media productions, this whole new industry on the island is currently flourishing.

Over time the company was producing on any Caribbean Island where clients would find the appropriate place to match script and requested location.
In parallel, an extensive database of locations grew, as well as a powerful network with companies from other Caribbean islands, so far - but not limited - on the Caribbean islands of Anguilla, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, St. Barts (St. Barthelemy), St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Martin/Sint Maarten, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, as well as the Bahamas.”

Ellen Hoch-Kramer

Barbados is part of the Southern Caribbean, the second base is St. Martin, a Northern French Caribbean Island. This has the advantage of zero custom fees for imports of equipment and fashion collections at their international entry airport of Sint Maarten.
Another advantage is the close range to surrounding islands like St Barts and Anguilla that can be reached by ferries and speed boats or Guadeloupe and Martinique which are accessible by small planes from the local small French airport on the French side.
This offers the opportunity to shoot on several islands without additional overnight costs.

Location wise Barbados and St. Martin compliment each other perfectly and still offer the opportunity to shoot on all other surrounding islands, based on script and creative concept. The company has built over time an immense location library of the Caribbean with location images of any possible shoot location.

"Caribbean Production" has not only an experienced production management that offers a wide range of creative services to the media production industry, but also a professionally trained and highly motivated crew with specialized skills and high standard technical equipment.
It stands for professional and reliable film and photo production service in the whole a Caribbean region.

The client can expect a smooth project handling of multiple tasks and at the same time reduce production costs significantly. Another advantage of 'Caribbean Production's' professional management and crew is the ability to deliver production results on time without losing on quality.

Financial estimates are detailed, and the pricing structure is according to requested tasks. The final production costs stay within the agreed limits to avoid any overtime charges.
On-island model agencies and an unlimited source of local talents as well as professional hair/make-up artists, stylists and set dressers are part of the cost reducing factors, as the client saves on flight and accommodation costs which contribute significantly to the production budget.

"Our production network spreads over many islands and our creative input combined with excellent technical know how allows us to produce amazing film, video, commercial and photo shootings at reasonable costs.

We have been successful in providing comprehensive production support to international clients from the film, commercial and photographic industries, including Social Media Productions.

To keep up with constant changing creative concepts and as a result with our client’s constant changing needs, we travel regularly to the US, Canada and Europe to meet with agencies, production companies and producers. We are visiting international production and location fairs to keep up with the newest film technologies.

With our well-trained crews on various Caribbean locations, we produced numerous international projects - movies and feature films, TV commercials and series, music videos, entertainment shows, commercials, documentaries and numerous high class advertising photography and fashion photo shoots.
Please view a selection of our performed productions and our CLIENT LIST under PROJECTS.