More than ever today, finding the ideal location to shoot is paramount. The world is a much smaller place, with technology allowing access into the most remote, the most beautiful of areas. Creative personnel can be found everywhere, same for crews and equipment, production services and otherwise. So with all the options out there to capitalize on, is there any reason not to look outside the norm to find the perfect visual background to suit the demands of any given project? Budget restrictions in mind, as well as time constraints, finding the right climate, the right tone, and the right geographic landscape just keeps getting easier. 

Take Argentina, for example. Occupying more than one million square miles, Argentina is tucked in between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the northeast, and Chile in the west and south. It can also be divided into four broad climatic regions: east central Argentina or the Pampas, the northeastern interior, western Argentina, and Patagonia or southern Argentina, to which should be added the distinctive mountain climate of the high Andes...