WE ARE YOUR PRODUCTION COMPANY IN
THE HEART OF THE CARIBBEAN.
Our mission is to be the bridge that connects Puerto Rican talent and the island’s unparalleled landscapes with film, television, advertising, and digital content productions with global reach.
Our strength lies in the unique fusion of artistic talent, proven technical expertise with over 25 years in the industry, deep knowledge of the local ecosystem, and legal proficiency.
This allows us not only to execute your project with excellence, but also to be your strategic guide in leveraging the advantages of producing on the island—from Puerto Rico’s undeniable musical talent and cinematic technique to securing the island’s attractive film tax incentives (up to 55%) on qualified production expenses.
We usually charge our clients for consultations because we invest 100% of our time and effort—but that doesn’t mean you can’t reach out informally.
Feel free to talk to us about the project you want to make. We’re happy to connect.
At Ítoko Media, we offer strategic consultancy and hands-on guidance for film, television, and audiovisual projects developed, packaged, written, filmed, or post-produced in Puerto Rico and across Latin America.
Our team is ready to help you navigate creative and logistical challenges with clarity and confidence.
We specialize in fast, accurate, and cost-effective budgeting and scheduling to support informed financial decisions. Our process is flexible and transparent—providing detailed, line-by-line budget breakdowns for your approval, followed by final cost reports and budget reconciliation. So you can rest easy, knowing your production is on solid ground.
Our experience of over 30 years creating music, being part of bands and long-standing projects, and representing artists in Puerto Rico and Colombia gives us a strong advantage when it comes to producing music and sound tailored to the needs of our clients and their projects—from composition to mixing and mastering.
At Ítoko Media, we are Music Supervisors. Our partners, from various sectors of art and entertainment, include a musician who is also an Intellectual Property lawyer in the United States, with over ten years of experience representing artists. This gives us a unique advantage in understanding licensing processes and rates for both existing and original music. Clients can rely on us from the earliest stages, ensuring exceptional results..
MUSIC SUPERVISION MOVIE CATALOGUE
OUR SUPPORT GOES
FAR BEYOND WHAT
YOU IMAGINE!
We provide Strategic Consulting and Intellectual Property Management for Artists.
This knowledge helps protect and enhance your creative work within a complex legal landscape.
At Ítoko Media, we merge creativity and legal strategy to drive your audiovisual project from concept to screen.
Our founding partner, Javier Villar Rosa, Esq., holds degrees in Communications and Literature from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), a Law degree from the University of Puerto Rico, and formal music training from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music.
This interdisciplinary background allows him to personally lead each project with a sharp artistic vision and a solid legal foundation.
Our specialized consulting and support for productions in the United States, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and throughout Latin America includes:
- Music supervision and creative clearance
- Trademark, patent, and copyright protection
- Negotiation of local and international contracts and licenses
- Royalty structuring and monetization models
- Litigation, dispute resolution, and direct legal representation
- Legal deliveries oversight
- Legal consulting for digital media, platforms, and social networks
Legacy Structuring to protect your intellectual property and optimize your financial framework, including:
- Creation of strategic legal entities (SPVs or Special Purpose Vehicles)
- Drafting and negotiation of co-production contracts and Production Services Agreements (PSAs)
- Legal contracting of third parties, vendors, and key talent.
All backed by an in-house attorney, ensuring legal control, efficiency, and consistency throughout every phase of the project.
At Ítoko Media, our boutique approach ensures that every project—from an independent documentary to a major international production—receives personalized attention. We offer complete discretion and results tailored to your creative vision.
We have extensive experience working with foreign productions and a strong network across Puerto Rico. We liaise with government offices, like the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, to expedite visas, permits, and locations. Our experience and local knowledge offer you top-notch research, contacts, and the latest advice from the start.
EQUIPMENT RENTAL
Thanks to a professional relationship of over 20 years with the leading rental companies, we navigate this aspect with ease: we secure special rates and favorable conditions for equipment shipping and problem-solving. Rentals in Puerto Rico have made a significant effort to stay updated with cutting-edge technology, ensuring foreign clients have everything they need to create their imaginary worlds.
SCOUTING
Our location scouting team is simply the best and is more than capable of finding the perfect places for your creative vision, tailored to the project’s requirements. Understanding the script and maintaining open communication channels with Production, Production Design and Direction are key to our mission of ensuring the success of the locations.
BANKING, FINANCIAL & LEGAL SERVICES
We help you connect with local banks and/or insurance companies and our brokers to make your stay in our island easier. Our accounting team has vast experience navigating budgets, trackers, and legalizations for official entities and clients abroad.
ACCOMMODATION & LOCAL TRANSPORTATION
We assist you with short or long-term accommodation options, from hotel rooms to apartment rentals and more. We also provide safe local transportation services through our own transport vendors for filming.
At Itoko Media, we are ready to handle projects of any size, from 30-second commercials to 80-episode series. We offer a variety of services and resources to meet your production needs. If you can imagine and finance it, we’ll make it a reality by optimizing the budget as much as possible adding production value always.
We want you to let go of any fears about certain production aspects. In Puerto Rico, we’ve been making film and television for many years now and, especially over the past decade, thanks to the Film Incentives, there has been a massive transfer of knowledge to the island across all departments as a result of major productions taking place in the country.
TECHNICAL STAFF
When you see our technical staff, you’ll feel like you’re looking at a mix between a rescue team, a group of marines, a scientific squad, and a really cool collective of artists. We know the most professional people and work only with the best, period.
LOCATIONS
We are fans of our location teams. It’s not just that they can find almost any location; they provide the most suitable and production-friendly alternatives. There is always a detailed evaluation of pros and cons, ensuring a more sensible production with fewer chances of unfortunate errors.
At Ítoko Media, we offer comprehensive services, providing you with access to the best post-production teams if you wish. For filming, from pre-production, we ensure connection with the best available data lab to set up the workflow your project requires, allowing it to progress smoothly to the editing room. If you’re a foreign producer wanting to do post-production in Puerto Rico (which also qualifies for tax incentive), we align the Photography team with the Digital-lab and the post-production house as needed. This ensures that the material is captured, tagged, stored, safeguarded, and distributed correctly until the final deliveries.
EDITING STATION
We offer mobile editing solutions for your shoot, allowing you to edit in various locations according to your preferences, whether on set, in your office, at a hotel, or at home. We tailor our services to fit your needs and comfort.
STUDIO DELIVERIES
With experience working with major studios like HBO Max, Warner Bros, NBC Universal, Lionsgate distribution, plaforms like Amazon and Netflix, we are equipped to create, manage, and deliver all the materials necessary for studio, broadcasters and streamers distribution. We ensure an efficient and effective process to meet industry standards.
Voces de pasión, Puerto Rico en el mundo
The documentary “Voices of Passion”, a 90-minute film, captures the stories of five Puerto Rican singers who have built international careers around the world.
The stories of five Puerto Rican singers with outstanding international careers in classical music are told and celebrated in the documentary “Voices of Passion”, directed by filmmaker Sonia Fritz. The film premieres on Wednesday, August 30, at 7:00 p.m., at the Jesús María Sanromá Hall of the Bertita and Guillermo L. Martínez Theater at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music. Supported by Humanities Puerto Rico, the production follows the careers of Larisa Martínez, Rafael Dávila, Meechot Marrero, Laura Pabón, and Joel Prieto—singers who trained at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music and who now represent the island on some of the most prestigious stages in the United States and Europe.
Over the course of three years, Fritz—together with a production team—researched and documented the journeys of these artists, from their beginnings in the San Juan Children’s Choir to earning their master’s degrees and shining on stages around the world, including in countries such as China, Chile, and Russia. The documentary features interviews with the singers, along with family scenes filmed in the places where they grew up: Larisa Martínez in Orocovis, Meechot Marrero in Corozal, Joel Prieto in Cayey, and Laura Pabón and Rafael Dávila in San Juan.
THE LAST COLONY
In 1898, the United States colonized Puerto Rico as part of the Spanish American War.
For 114 years the people of Puerto Rico have maintained a
polarizing debate on the STATUS ISSUE that has been front and center of the political discourse on the Island. Puerto Ricans (American citizens since 1917) constantly
dispute between the options of Statehood, Independence and the current status known in the Island as E.L.A.
On November 6, 2012 the people of Puerto Rico held the fourth plebiscite in the Island’s history to try to redefine the political relationship with the United States.
Weeks before the plebiscite vote, two-time EMMY Award winner Juan Agustín Márquez
traveled back to his homeland and interviewed leading politicians, historians, sociologists, and economists to dissect the status debate in a multilayered conversation about the pros and cons of each option on the ballot.
His mission: To explain the status debate to the people of the United States, Congress and the President, and bring the American people up to date on this century old question:
Will there be a change in status in America’s Last Colony?
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
AGUSTÍN MÁRQUEZ VEGLIO – EDUARDO EMANUELLI – ANNABELLE MULLEN
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
JUAN AGUSTÍN MÁRQUEZ
PRODUCED BY
JUAN AGUSTÍN MÁRQUEZ – MARI RODRÍGUEZ – ANNABELLE MULLEN
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
KARIM BENÍTEZ – ELISA MÁRQUEZ – ENRIQUE SEGURA
MUSIC
TYLER FINK
TOPOS
Titi, Carlitos, Betún, Jhon and Pinky, five children between the ages of 4 and 12, work at traffic lights in Bogotá cleaning windshields, sleep in sewers, are chased like cats after mice, and daily face the anxiety of not knowing if the another day they are alive. The Moles except Titi are burned while they sleep; Titi begins a new path, she meets Ratona, a 15-year-old girl, her body is burned; Titi and Mouse embark on a journey between the living and the dead, while the Moles follow them without realizing that they have died. Titi and Ratona will have to face tragedy again, which has an outstanding debt with destiny.
Awards:
-BAM 2017 Recognition
-Incentive for feature film production, second category FDC 2017
-Cinephilia 2017
-Script Laboratory Morelia, Mexico 2017
-Guest San Sebastián market 2017
-Guest European Film Market 2018
-Youth Competition Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2021
LONG GONE HEROES
Long Gone Heroes is a 2024 American action-thriller film written and directed by John Swab, based on a story by Santiago Manes Moreno. The film stars Frank Grillo, Josh Hutcherson, Eden Brolin, Melissa Leo, and Andy García, and was produced by Perrenque Media Lab in Colombia. The plot follows a former soldier who assembles a team of mercenaries to rescue his niece, kidnapped by a drug lord in Venezuela. Distributed by LionsGate, the film was released in the United States in September 2024.
NO ME LLAMEN ANTONIA
One last effort to grasp what is left of a woman’s memory. Her existence vanishing through what she no longer remembers.
THIS ISLAND (ESTA ISLA)
Siblings Charlie and Bebo maintain a humble but freewheeling lifestyle living in a public housing complex in their coastal Puerto Rican town. They drink and party together — often on the beach, at night, with friends — and by day, they try to make ends meet as fishermen with the occasional side hustle. Against this backdrop, teenage Bebo meets and falls in love with Lola, a young woman from a privileged family. But when Charlie becomes embroiled in shady dealings running up against the business of a local drug dealer, the young lovers flee and seek shelter deep in the island’s untamed and isolated mountains… biding their time to evade peril.
With grounded performances and striking cinematography, Lorraine Jones and Cristian Carretero’s confident first feature is a potent exploration of wayward youth seeking a better future for themselves amidst their precarious present.
SOFIA Y EL TERCO
Sofía is a 75-year-old lady who lives in a cold and quiet town in the Andes and has never seen the sea. For many years, her husband has promised her to go to the Caribbean, but reasons always arise that force her to postpone the dream trip. However, there comes a time when, thanks to the insistence of a friend, she decides to start the trip alone, leaving her husband at home.