In the 1960s and 70s, cameraman Fucho Musitelli was one of the first, if not the first, to use ARRIFLEX cameras in the Río de la Plata region, between Uruguay and Argentina. In 1966, he would also become the ARRI sales representative. Up to this point equipment had to be purchased and imported directly from Munich. It was not until 1994 that links were established with ARRI in the United States. Today, Fucho Musitelli’s grandsons run a top-notch rental facility in Montevideo bearing their name. ARRI is still their flagship brand.

Analog cameras were being used in early 1980’s Colombia to capture the Cine Revista news segments shown in movie theaters. They were filmed with the ARRI II C, a straightforward, workhorse of a camera that really put ARRI on the map. Negative processing and post still had to be completed in NY since there were no local labs.  Efraim Cárdenas of Congo Films in Bogotá recounts, “The first ARRI III with bayonet mount arrived in about 1984. More cameras soon followed and by the end of the 1980’s a couple of PL mount cameras began appearing.” Today you can find all the latest cutting-edge digital production equipment at rental houses across the region.