No, Julian's offices are in New York so he there has a solid crew. The major difference is that everything is so much stricter in the States. You need so many permits for everything. In Mexico, you can do it all. People cooperate, don't get bothered, and even the traffic will stop without problems.
Local people see it as a show in the streets.
Besides, the technology is the same. We worked with an Arriflex . The original DP proposed to use, when there was no light, tungsten instead of HMIs, to create a different atmosphere to the contemporary style that is more crisp. We used Kodak film and different types of emulsions. It was a purely visual choice.