BEGIN SLIDESHOW Mile 22 set visit with Peter Berg & Co. in Bogota, Colombia The Peter Berg-directed action film Mile 22 began principal photography on November 27, 2017 in Atlanta and filmed there through December before picking the shoot back up in early 2018 in Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. When we arrive for our Mile 22 set visit on February 10 it is Day 40 of 43, with some of the production’s biggest stunts still ahead. RELATED: Watch the Mile 22 Red Band Trailer Featuring Mark Wahlberg! Mile 22 centers on Mark Wahlberg’s Jimmy Silva, the leader of a CIA special division called Ground Branch assigned to exfiltrate an important informant named Li (Iko Uwais of The Raid films) from a U.S.