Videns Films · Guadalajara · since 2004

We also make films.

The same team that posts spots for US agencies produces feature films in Mexico: our own features, production services for foreign shoots in Jalisco, and the full post in house.

Short documentary · 5 min

We took on Hollywood

How a team from Guadalajara made an action feature to Hollywood standards, across five countries, with the post and VFX done in house.

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Now · 2026

Latest feature

Mexico–US co-production
Día de Muertos key art
Supernatural thriller

Día de Muertos

FICG 41 · Official competition202685 minSpanish / English2.39:1 · 5.1

Jane wakes up in a rural Mexican clinic in the middle of Day of the Dead with no memory of who she is. As the town fills with marigolds, candles and catrinas, she has to piece her identity together through supernatural visions and medical secrets, before a killer known as The Piper finds her.

Play trailer · 2:27
Directed by
Brian Conley & Nathan Ives
Written by
Bennett Yellin
Cast
Max Reeves, Adriana Paz, Alejandro Ávila, Aaron Jakubenko, Guy Wilson
Executive producers
Stephen Israel · Dane Scism & Brett Patterson (Conley Entertainment Group)
Mexico production
Francisco Arias · Videns Films
Post & VFX
Videns, Guadalajara: VFX, compositing, HDR color, 5.1 mix and finishing
95%Shot in Jalisco
120+Direct jobs
90%Local crew & vendors
100%VFX made in Mexico
Día de Muertos still: Jane
Día de Muertos still: The Piper
Día de Muertos still: cemetery
Día de Muertos still: clinic
Día de Muertos still: escape
Filmography

Films & series

Produced · co-produced · credits
Blood, Sand & Gold poster
Feature · 2017

Blood, Sand & Gold

An action feature shot across five countries: Mexico, Dubai, Hong Kong, Morocco and Switzerland. Videns was lead producer and VFX supervisor. Directed by Gaelan Connell; with Aaron Costa Ganis, Monica West and Christopher Redman.

Audrey poster
Feature

Audrey

Production credit, for Manchego Pictures LLC (Los Angeles). Released on HBO Latino.

Infil­trados
Series

Infiltrados

Production credit on the series, shot in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Production services

Shoot in Mexico

Based in Jalisco · all of Mexico
01
Line producing

US-format budgets and schedules, one point of contact.

02
Locations & permits

Scouting, permits and community relations.

03
Local crew

Experienced Jalisco crew across every department.

04
Casting & talent

Local casting at ANDA rates.

05
Art & practical FX

Set builds, practical fire and rain, prosthetics.

06
Logistics

Transport, equipment, catering and lodging.

07
Incentives

Guidance on Filma Jalisco state incentives.

08
Post & VFX

Edit, VFX, 3D, HDR color, 5.1 mix and finishing in house.

Behind the scenes

On set

Jalisco · Hong Kong · Swiss Alps
The shoot, told by the crew · 2:06
Día de Muertos

A built cemetery, real fire, a period ambulance

60% of the shoot at Foro Américas in Zapopan, plus a children's hospital in Guadalajara, the cemetery in Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos and the catrinas parade in San Miguel de Allende. Up to 110 people on set at peak.

Camera
Practical fire
O.R. set
Cemetery, night
Makeup
Hong Kong
Swiss Alps
Steadicam
Production · co-production · post

Bring your shoot to Mexico.