Taken: Natalee Holloway | Netflix

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Filming Lima for Netflix's Taken: Natalee Holloway

8 crew · 1 day · Lima: Pueblo Libre, plus B-roll in San Isidro and Miraflores

APU filmed the Lima chapter of Netflix's three-part documentary series Taken: Natalee Holloway, shooting on RED across the real locations of the 2010 case in Miraflores.

Taken: Natalee Holloway revisits the 2005 disappearance of the American student in Aruba and the long search for answers that followed. Part of that story leads to Lima. On May 30, 2010, five years to the day after Holloway vanished, Joran van der Sloot killed Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old Peruvian student, in a hotel in Miraflores. He fled to Chile and was arrested there on June 3. He was convicted in Lima in 2012.

Our team was brought in to film the Peruvian side of the story. The series is now streaming worldwide on Netflix.

The interview

We produced an on-camera interview with Juan Callan, the Peruvian detective who tracked down Joran van der Sloot. We filmed him in a detective's office, giving the interview the setting of the investigation itself. His account gives the series a first-hand view of how the case was solved in Peru.

Real locations

The Lima case unfolded within a few blocks of Miraflores, and we filmed it where it happened:

• The casino where Stephany Flores and van der Sloot met
• The hotel where she was killed
• The police station connected to the investigation
• The detective's office for the interview with Juan Callan
• The streets of Miraflores, day and night, connecting the locations

Filming at real crime locations calls for care. Access to each property and permits had to be arranged in advance, and the work had to be done with respect for the people connected to the case.

Technical

• Shot on the RED Komodo 6K at 5760 × 3240, 23.98 fps
• On-camera interview with Juan Callan
• B-roll of the casino, hotel, police station and Miraflores streets