Uruguay

ACAU

Agencia del Cine y el Audiovisual del Uruguay

National Film Agency · Montevideo

Uruguay's top-level government audiovisual body. Created in 2022, ACAU replaced the former ICAU and manages the national Film Promotion Fund and the Uruguay Audiovisual program, issuing the tax-exemption certificates underpinning the advertising and film rebate. The single most relevant national body for any production — including action or stunt work — shooting in the country.

Uruguay Audiovisual

Uruguay Film Commission & cash-rebate program

Production Incentive & Commission · Montevideo

The official program promoting Uruguay as a production destination and administering the cash rebate that drives the country's advertising-production boom (around 20–25% on qualifying spend, plus VAT exemption on foreign productions), and listed in the AFCI directory as the Uruguay Film Commission. The single most important entity explaining why so much car/action commercial work happens in Montevideo.

ASOPROD

Asociación de Productores y Realizadores Audiovisuales del Uruguay

Producers' Association · Montevideo

Founded 1994, the main industry association of Uruguayan audiovisual producers and directors, sitting on commissions within the national film bodies. The closest thing Uruguay has to a representative body for the people who commission and budget productions — useful context for where stunt and action work is contracted (there is no dedicated stunt-performers' guild).

Montevideo Audiovisual

Montevideo Socio Audiovisual

City Film Office · Montevideo

The audiovisual unit of Montevideo's city government, handling filming permits for film, TV and advertising across the city and running local production funds. Since the bulk of Uruguay's action-commercial and stunt-driving work shoots in and around Montevideo, this is the practical local authority any production — including those closing streets for car action — must clear.

Christian Zagía

Stunt coordinator & fight choreographer

Stunt Coordinator · Montevideo / LA

The single most-cited name in Uruguayan screen action — the country's go-to stunt coordinator and fight choreographer, who came up through stage combat and broke through staging the duel for César Charlone's La redota (2011). He has coordinated combat and stunts across Uruguayan films and series and acted in the Fede Álvarez Don't Breathe / No Respires films, giving Uruguay a Hollywood-connected action presence. Listed honestly as an individual (social/press, no company site).

FX Uruguay

Special & Practical Effects · Montevideo

Founded 2006, FX Uruguay builds and executes practical/special effects and scenography for film, TV and advertising — the rigs, collapses, escapes and large set work that sit directly alongside stunt and action sequences. Credits include the series DOM and the feature La Sociedad de la Nieve / Society of the Snow. The most established practical-effects house supporting Uruguayan screen action.

StuntCity.uy

“Stunt Uruguay” community

Stunt Collective · Montevideo

A small Montevideo-based stunt community presence (also a “Stunt Uruguay” YouTube channel) representing the grassroots end of Uruguayan dobles de riesgo. Included honestly as the only identifiable home-grown stunt-team-style presence beyond named individuals — a social-media community rather than a registered company; treat as a starting lead. Social-only (Instagram).

ECU — Escuela de Cine del Uruguay

Film School · Montevideo

Founded 1995, Uruguay's first institution dedicated solely to professional film training and a full member of CILECT. It runs a filmmaking career path plus diplomas including Acting for Film & TV. Not stunt-specific, but the country's premier training ground for the directors, crew and actors who stage and commission action sequences.

Universidad ORT Uruguay

Licenciatura en Comunicación Audiovisual

University Film Degree · Montevideo

A leading private university offering a Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual & Cinematographic Communication (plus a shorter technical track). The most academically formal audiovisual pathway in the country, feeding crew and directors into the same advertising- and film-production industry that hires action and stunt support.

Montevideo Knock Out (MKO)

Combat-Sports Gym · Montevideo

Uruguay's most prominent combat-sports gym — MMA, Muay Thai, kickboxing, boxing, BJJ and wrestling. Not a screen-fight school, but in a country with no dedicated stunt or stage-combat academy, gyms like MKO are the realistic place performers build the fight and physical skills that underpin screen action.