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SCENE 01 / PRE-PRODUCTION

Pre-Production Services

The team handles production planning and creative development and logistics which maintain your schedule and budget and creative vision.

Creative Scriptwriting, storyboarding, and pitch-ready treatments.
Logistics Permits, budgeting, scheduling, and crew coordination.
Delivery Production-ready plans with Poland-wide coverage.
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Planning with Precision

Comprehensive Pre-Production Services

From initial concept to production-ready plans, our team sets the foundation for successful films, TV, commercials, and digital content around the world.

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Creative Excellence

The creative team works with TVP, TVN, Polsat, and international co-production partners to develop scripts, storyboards, and visual treatments for projects across Poland.

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Strategic Planning

The line producers create USD budgets with PISF cash rebate calculations included in their planning, using Polish holiday schedules and production regulations to determine timelines.

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Local Expertise

Fixers across all 16 Polish voivodeships — from Baltic Sea beaches to Tatra Mountain villages to Masuria's lakes.

Service Catalog

Our Pre-Production Services

Every phase is covered—creative development, casting, permits, budgeting, crew, logistics, and compliance.

Why Fixers in Poland

Why Choose Fixers in Poland for Pre-Production

Integrated creative, logistics, and compliance backed by seasoned producers and local fixers.

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Proven Expertise

Industry-leading team across all formats and budgets, trusted by global broadcasters.

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Fast Response

Rapid 24-48 hour turnarounds for quotes, permits, and scheduling updates.

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Global Network

On-the-ground partners in 100+ countries with local permits handled for you.

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Full Service

End-to-end coverage from concept and casting to legal, logistics, and delivery.

On Location

Poland pre-production, planned precisely

Here is how this works in practice. From Warsaw's Praga district to the medieval lanes of Kraków's Stare Miasto, Poland gives production teams an extraordinary range of environments that reward careful pre-production planning. Our team manages each stage of creative development and logistics so your schedule, budget, and creative vision arrive on set fully intact. We handle location permissions, crew scheduling, and assembly for projects that span urban centres, the industrial corridors of Katowice, and the alpine resort town of Zakopane at the foot of the Tatra Mountains — all before the first shooting day starts.

Schedules built on real Polish permitting timelines and PISF rebate windows — never optimistic guesses on either side of the prep calendar.

Here is the short of it. Our Concept Development process sets up a clear visual language before a single camera rolls, while Storyboarding translates that language into frame-by-frame blueprints that your director and DP can act on at once. For shoots needing on-screen talent, our Casting & Talent service draws on a deep network across Warsaw, Gdańsk, Wrocław, and Poznań, matching performers and presenters to your brief with speed and precision. Moodboards, Pitch Decks, and Script Consultation round out the offering for clients who are still at earlier creative stages and need a structured path toward production.

FAQs

Pre-Production FAQs

Clear answers on timelines, coverage, and how we tailor planning to your production.

What's included in pre-production services?

Here is how this works in practice. Our team gives complete production services which have script breakdown and scheduling and location selection across 16 Polish voivodeships and Warsaw agency casting and crew member selection from our OK'd network and budget development in USD with PISF cash rebates calculations and permit submission to PISF and local authorities. You receive a production-ready package which becomes ready before the cameras start filming.

How long does pre-production take?

Here is the short of it. The process of obtaining locations and casting actors and wrapping PISF forms for feature films needs a minimum of 8 to 12 weeks. The production timeline for commercials stays short because they need only 2 to 4 weeks to finish production when shoot sites have easy access. The process of getting documentary access and conducting interviews decides which film projects filmmakers can start their work on. The team can accelerate project work when needed but Polish authority rules about permit processing create key time needs.

Do you work with international productions shooting in Poland?

That's our specialty. We bridge the gap between global shoots firms and Polish crews, vendors, and authorities. Our team handles everything from carnet needs for gear crossing borders to setting up with Polish unions and handling the PISF co-production rules. Most of our clients are UK, US, German, and Asian shoots shooting on Polish soil.

Can you work within a specific budget?

Here is the breakdown. The firm creates budgets which use USD as currency and have detailed line items that follow the formatting needs of the Polish industrial sector. If you have a target number, we'll tell you honestly what's achievable—whether that means adjusting the shooting schedule, finding alternative locations, or restructuring the crew. We'd rather have a frank conversation upfront than deliver surprises later.

What happens if permits get denied or locations fall through?

Here is what that looks like on the ground. It happens, and we plan for it. The location packages we give have backup solutions and we have set up connections with Polish property owners and film commissions to handle unexpected changes in filming locations. Our location managers have pulled off same-week replacements for everything from historic estate shoots to Polish apartment interiors.

On Set

Ready to Start Your Pre-Production?

We'll build a production-ready plan with detailed budgets, schedules, and permit timelines for your project.