Corporate Video Production in Dubai
Corporate films and client testimonials filmed in Dubai by licensed partner crews, working to a plan our team writes and you approve, then edited in São Paulo. One contract in US dollars.
Filming across Dubai
A licensed Dubai partner crew films your approved plan, and our team reviews every shoot day.
Filming permits, location approvals and site rules handled before the shoot day.
What we produce for companies in Dubai
For video production in Dubai, we film two formats on location. A corporate film introduces a regional base, a leadership message, a facility or a milestone, told through interviews and footage of people at work. A client testimonial puts your customers in front of the camera to describe their challenge and the result. A licensed Dubai partner crew films both at your premises, in a studio or at a customer’s site, from a script, interview guide and shot list that our team writes and you approve. Read more about corporate film production and client testimonial videos.
Not every project needs a permit or a crew. Animated videos, films made with AI-generated imagery, stock footage edits and new versions of footage you already own are produced by our team in São Paulo and delivered in the same formats and languages.
Choose a shoot when the story depends on real people, real places or a customer’s own words. Choose animation or AI-generated imagery when the film explains a process, a service or a strategy for several markets. Many teams in the region use both: one interview filmed in Dubai, with animated sections that carry the data for each country.
Corporate films
Client testimonials
Leadership and interview films
Animated videos
AI-assisted videos
Videos from your existing footage
Corporate films
Client testimonials
Leadership and interview films
Animated videos
AI-assisted videos
Videos from your existing footage
How we produce in Dubai
Who is responsible for what, from the brief to the final files, when a Dubai partner crew films and our team in São Paulo plans and finishes the work.
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Creative direction
Our creative team in São Paulo writes the script or the interview questions, the shot list and the visual references for the Dubai crew. You sign off on every document before a shoot date is confirmed.
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Permits and pre-production
We book a UAE-licensed partner company, which files the Dubai Film and TV Commission permit and confirms each location with its owner, and we agree the call sheet with your team. One person on our side handles it all.
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Filming in Dubai
The partner crew films at your location, with its producer leading the set and following the approved plan shot by shot. No crew members fly in from Brazil.
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Daily review from São Paulo
Footage is uploaded when each shoot day wraps. Dubai is seven hours ahead of São Paulo, so a day that ends in the early evening in Dubai reaches us around midday in Brazil; we review it that afternoon, and notes are with the crew before the next shoot day.
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Editing and post-production
Editing, color grading, sound, motion graphics, captions and versions are all done in São Paulo. With Dubai seven hours ahead, a cut we send at the end of our day is ready for you first thing the next morning.
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Contract and billing
You sign one contract with Olive Tree Films, LLC, our US company in Miami, priced and invoiced in US dollars. We contract the Dubai partner, so your team works with one vendor.
Part of every Dubai project
An approved plan before any shoot, daily footage reviews, voice-over in more than 50 languages, two revision rounds per package and experience from more than 400 clients.
Permits, licensed partners and the heat
Dubai requires a filming permit for audio and visual productions on both government-operated and private locations, according to the Dubai Film and TV Commission. That includes your own premises. Only a company with a UAE production license can apply, and the commission does not issue permits directly to international companies, so every Dubai shoot runs through a licensed local partner that files the permit.
The commission’s FAQ puts permit approval at one working day, subject to the location owner’s approval, and registration at two working days. Its fee schedule lists a processing fee of AED 520 per application, which can cover several days and locations, and a location fee of AED 2,500 for corporate content at government locations, valid for up to seven days. Private owners set their own location fees, from nothing up to AED 25,000 per day. Filming without a permit carries a fine of AED 25,000. Drone shots need additional approvals, so they belong in the plan from the first call.
From June to September the daytime heat is intense, so exterior scenes are scheduled for early morning or late afternoon, with an indoor alternative. During Ramadan, working hours change, and executives’ calendars with them; tell us early if your dates fall in that month.
We film across the emirate of Dubai; shoots in Abu Dhabi or another emirate follow that emirate’s own permit rules. List every location in your request: traffic between areas decides how many fit in one shooting day.
Rossetti builds tipper bodies and semitrailers. Our team wrote its industrial brand film and shot it at the plant in a single day, with aerial and ground cameras working around a live production line, then filmed a customer case for Comlink at the same site. Filmed in Guarulhos, Brazil. A plant, warehouse or logistics site in Dubai calls for the same discipline: a detailed plan, safety rules agreed in advance and no second chance at the shot. Read the Rossetti case.
The trailer is public. The full film is available on request.
Relevant work
Comparable projects, and where they were filmed
These projects were made in Brazil, with the same written planning our Dubai partners receive before every shoot. Sarwa, the investment platform founded in Dubai’s DIFC, is also on our client list.
English-speaking cast
Tuvis
A 90-second English-language brand film that launched Tuvis’s first ad campaign, with a cast of native English speakers; it took Gold at the Prêmio ABC. Filmed in São Paulo, Brazil. Read the Tuvis case.
Four sets, one day
Certta
For Certta’s rebranding, four executives from four business areas were filmed in one day, in a corporate space turned into four themed sets, with a final scene at a restaurant nearby. Filmed in São Paulo, Brazil. Read the Certta case.
Three languages
UN Global Compact
Eight animated episodes against corruption for the UN Global Compact Network Brazil, finished in Portuguese, Spanish and English; the English version premiered in Paris at a side event of the OECD Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum. Produced in São Paulo, with no filming. Read the case.
Verified reviews
Reviewed on Clutch.
300%
growth in new-user visits to the Tuvis website, as Tuvis reported in its verified review on Clutch.
6M
impressions, along with 27,000 clicks, across the Tuvis campaign, according to the same review.
Source: verified Clutch reviews. The numbers refer to the whole Tuvis campaign, of which the video was one part.
“Everyone I interact with is incredibly friendly,” said Greg Johns, a videographer at OpenText, the Canadian information management company, about the corporate b-roll we filmed for them. Vittoria Tatavitto, Product Marketing Coordinator at Tuvis, described a project spanning planning, casting, production and post-production: “The whole journey with them was exceptional.”
Languages
English, Spanish and Portuguese
English is widely used in Dubai business, alongside Arabic, the official language. The UAE is home to people of more than 200 nationalities, according to the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so a single film often speaks to a very mixed audience. Our team works in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Briefing and reviews
English scripts, any audience
We write scripts, interview guides and shot lists in English, and can prepare Spanish or Portuguese versions for approvers outside the region.
On set
Arabic interviews
When an interviewee prefers Arabic, tell us before the shoot so the questions, translation and English captions are planned around it.
Post-production
Captions and 50+ voices
Captions are included in every package, and voice-over is available in more than 50 languages for audiences across the region and beyond.
One Dubai shoot, versions for every market
Dubai is a regional base for many international companies. The Dubai International Financial Centre alone had 10,018 active registered companies at the end of the first half of 2026, according to DIFC. A film shot in Dubai usually travels to several countries, so decide the versions before the camera rolls: subtitles or voice-over for each interview, on-screen text by market, vertical cuts for social. Planned early, each version is an edit rather than another shoot.
Since our team is in São Paulo, Portuguese for Brazil and Spanish for Latin America can be added within the same project. Read about our multi-market video production.
Standard in every package
Every corporate video package comes with these six things. Extras are agreed in writing in the proposal, before production.
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Long and short versions
Two long versions and two short ones, cut from the same footage for events, websites and social channels.
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Horizontal and vertical
Every file delivered in horizontal and vertical formats.
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Captions
Captions on each version, so the film works without sound and for every viewer.
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Two revision rounds
Two revision rounds once you see the first cut; one consolidated set of comments per round works best.
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Usage rights
No time limit on usage when the film has no actors; one year when it does.
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Music
Licensed royalty-free music is part of the package; original music can be quoted separately.
Corporate video packages from $5,000
Dubai projects are priced in US dollars, with corporate videos from $5,000. You see the scope, the schedule and the price in the proposal before a date is booked.
What shapes the price and the timeline
A Dubai proposal depends on shooting days, the number of locations and the traffic between them, crew size, the DFTC processing and location fees, any private location fee, actors, interviews, languages, versions, animation and music. Site rules count too: access passes, safety inductions or restricted hours at a free zone, a plant or a hotel can change the crew call.
From briefing to first cut, allow 20 to 30 calendar days when the project includes a Dubai shoot or actors, and 15 to 20 when it uses existing footage, stock or animation. Book a shoot at least 15 calendar days ahead. The two revision rounds then move with your feedback.
What usually shifts Dubai schedules: executives traveling across the region, Ramadan working hours, summer heat for exterior scenes and approvals from a headquarters in another time zone. If the film has a fixed date, such as a conference or a launch, we plan backward from it.
Before the first call, it helps to have the goal and audience, who could appear on camera, the locations and their rules, the approvers and your brand guidelines. None of it is required to send a request.
Brands we have worked with
After you inquire
From request to shoot day
Five steps from your first message to the shoot, with the same team throughout.
One team.
One contract.
Filmed in Dubai.
Edited in São Paulo.
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Reply
We review your request and usually reply within 24 hours on business days.
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20-minute call
A Google Meet call to answer your questions and understand the goal, the audience and the locations.
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Proposal
Scope, schedule, deliverables and price in US dollars, based on what we learned in the call.
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Pre-production
Script or interview guide, shoot plan and the local crew confirmed for your date, with at least 15 calendar days of notice.
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Shoot and edit
Filming at your location, then editing in São Paulo, first cut, two revision rounds and delivery.
Related pages and cases
The formats we produce for Dubai and the cases this page is built on.
Practical questions about filming in Dubai
Questions Dubai teams usually raise before booking a shoot.
Do you have a team in Dubai?
We film in Dubai with trusted, UAE-licensed partner crews, and we do not have staff based in Dubai today. The crew follows a plan our team writes, creative direction and post-production are done in São Paulo, and you contract Olive Tree Films, LLC, our US company in Miami. Call +1 (786) 936-6428 or email hello@olivetreefilms.com.
How is the shoot managed without your team on set?
Through a plan you approve before the shoot: script or interview questions, shot list, visual references and call sheet. The partner’s producer runs the set, and we review each day’s footage the same afternoon in São Paulo, so notes reach the crew before the next shoot day.
Do we need a permit to film at our own premises in Dubai?
Yes. The Dubai Film and TV Commission requires a filming permit on government-operated and private locations, including your own premises, and only a UAE-licensed production company can apply. Our licensed partner files it, and the location owner must also approve.
How long does a Dubai filming permit take, and what does it cost?
The commission approves permits in one working day, subject to the location owner’s approval. Each application has a processing fee of AED 520 and can cover several days and locations; corporate content at government locations adds a AED 2,500 location fee for up to seven days, and private owners set their own fees, up to AED 25,000 per day.
Can interviews be in Arabic?
Yes, if you tell us before the shoot. Most corporate interviews in Dubai are in English; when someone prefers Arabic, translation and English captions become part of the plan. Captions are included in every package, and voice-over is available in more than 50 languages.
How far ahead should we book a shoot in Dubai?
At least 15 calendar days before the shoot. Allow more for drone shots, for exterior scenes in the summer months, or when your dates fall during Ramadan.
Request a proposal
Filmed in Dubai. Written and finished by one team.
Request a proposal
Tell us about your Dubai project.
To start, we only need six fields: who you are, what you need, where and when. Budget range and details are optional.
What happens next. Expect a reply within 24 hours on business days and a 20-minute Google Meet call. Then you receive a proposal in US dollars with the scope, schedule and deliverables.
Prefer a conversation? Call or WhatsApp +1 (786) 936-6428, or email hello@olivetreefilms.com.