Mbrella Films
Film Production Services Company in Thailand
Mbrella Films is a Bangkok-based film production services company with a decade of experience running productions in Thailand. Our credits include Three, Hellhound, Blood on the Ice, Affinity, Circle of Death, Disney+’s Made in Korea, Netflix’s King the Land and The Price of Confession, TVING’s Love in the Big City, and the Emirati series Khattaf. Here’s what we handle at each stage of a production.
Our Work
Pre-Production
Everything that sets a production up to run smoothly happens here: script breakdown, line budgeting, location scouting, scheduling, and logistics planning. We start by reviewing your script for Thailand-specific requirements: locations, cast needs, stunts, VFX flags, and anything that affects permitting or budget. From there we lock the shooting schedule around location availability, crew availability, and Thai public holidays, and scout and secure locations, from Bangkok’s skyline and old town districts to islands, jungle, and studio space. Before the crew lands, we set up ground transport, accommodation, and equipment sourcing, including import and customs clearance for gear coming in from outside Thailand.
Budgeting
We build a detailed, stage-by-stage line budget for every production we run, regardless of size, the same process behind the budgets for King the Land and The Price of Confession. Budgets include contingency planning and local vendor rate cards, built alongside your team before locations and crew are locked, so the schedule and the budget are shaped together rather than one dictating the other after the fact. This is also where we factor in Thailand Film Incentive eligibility, since the rebate calculation depends directly on how the qualifying spend is structured in the budget from the start. See Thailand Film Incentive & Rebate Support below for how we manage the rebate process itself. Contact us to talk through your production and get a full budget breakdown.
Production
During production, we run the shoot day to day: managing the call sheet and schedule, coordinating crew and vendors, and handling on-the-ground logistics including transport, equipment, catering, and security. The film permit and location approvals secured in pre-production get executed and managed on the day, and we handle any location-specific issues that come up on set, such as coordinating with property owners, local authorities, or park officials. When a location or schedule problem comes up, we solve it on the ground rather than escalating it back to your team.
Crew scale varies by production. Made in Korea ran 85 foreign crew alongside more than 150 local Thai crew; King the Land ran close to 90 crew in total. In both cases, we handled accommodation, work permits, security, and transport for the full crew, coordinated end to end. The same process runs at a leaner scale for smaller productions.
Line Producers
Every production we run in Thailand is anchored by a dedicated line producer: one person accountable for the line budget, schedule, and vendor relationships from prep through wrap. We manage vendor negotiation and contracts, crew booking, and day-to-day cost tracking against the budget, and flag overages or schedule risk as soon as they show up rather than at wrap.
Film Permits and Location Permits
To legally film any commercial content in Thailand, including features, TV series, commercials, and music videos, a production needs a valid film permit approved through the Thailand Film Office. As a registered Local Coordinator, we submit the permit application, coordinate with the Film Board on committee review, and manage the approval process from submission through sign-off. Alongside the shooting permit itself, we secure location-specific approvals: agreements with property owners, clearance from local authorities, and permissions from National Parks, city offices, or other licensing bodies where a shoot requires it. We prepare the documentation this needs, including a cover letter as local coordinator, an assignment letter from the production company, the completed application form, script or treatment materials, and a detailed shooting schedule with location and date breakdowns.
Work Visa
Foreign cast and crew need the correct visa category to legally work on a Thai set, and the requirements differ depending on the length of the shoot and the crew member’s role. We handle visa guidance and documentation for incoming crew, coordinating directly with Thai immigration and, where needed, Thai embassies and consulates abroad, so the team arrives with the correct paperwork rather than discovering a gap at the airport.
Work Permits
Post-production
Thailand Film Incentive & Rebate Support
Foreign productions filming in Thailand can qualify for a cash rebate through the Thailand Film Office, and we manage this process as a registered Local Coordinator from budgeting through disbursement, not as paperwork added on after wrap. Coordination includes registering the production with the TFO before principal photography begins, structuring the budget and Thai key-hire plan around the incentive’s qualifying criteria, and managing the invoice discipline the audit requires.
We provide a dedicated local financial controller and production accountants for the rebate process: specialists in TFO documentation standards, VAT-compliant Thai invoicing, and the post-wrap audit, rather than asking a production’s international accounting team to navigate Thailand’s regulatory framework on its own. We work alongside a production’s existing accounting team where one is already in place; they handle the international side, we hold the Thai-side ledger and the claim file itself.
Because the rebate is typically disbursed months after wrap, we also offer rebate financing and minimum guarantee financing against a production’s approved Thailand incentive, so the incentive can be budgeted as usable production-period cash flow rather than a distant reimbursement. See our complete Thailand Film Incentive guide for the current rebate structure, eligibility criteria, and application process.