Grip Services

Here is how this works in practice. Our grip packages route Chapman PeeWee IV, Hybrid IV, and Hustler IV dollies (with round-and-straight track sections), Fisher Model 11 and Model 10, Panther Foxy Advanced, and Egripment dollies for studio interior work at Tóbis Lisbon, Valentim de Carvalho, and Porto stage facilities. Crane and jib complement runs Technocrane 22 and 30 telescoping arms, Jimmy Jib Triangle II, ABC Crane Combo, MovieBird 45 and 65, plus Strada Crane via Iberian cross-border on five-to-six-hour van runs from Sigma Cine Madrid and Filmotechnic Madrid.

Here is the breakdown. Sliders, Skater Dollies, and tabletop systems run Kessler CineSlider, Slidekamera Hskater HD, Edelkrone SliderPlus Pro, and Cinedolly motorized rigs. Russian Arm and Ultimate Arm (six-axis stabilized car mount with FilmCar Mercedes ML and Range Rover chase sites) route through Filmotechnic Madrid and Cinegrell Madrid cross-border for Algarve coastal road shoots, Estoril autodrome heritage runs, and Lisbon urban chase sequences. Lighting stands, C-stands, combo stands, butterfly frames (8x8, 12x12, 20x20 silk-net-solid), and overhead frames complete kit.

Here is the short of it. Distribution routes through grip carts (Magliner Junior, Senior, Mag Mini), Lex 60-amp and 200-amp Bates camlock spider boxes, Putt-Putt Honda EU7000is and Honda EU2200i portable power packs (for quiet locations at Sintra UNESCO 1995 palace interiors, Belém UNESCO 1983 cloister, and Pico Island Vineyards UNESCO 2004 Azores), and silent forty-five-to-sixty-kVA Cummins QSB diesel power packs with Lex cam-locks for stage and exterior power.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Rigging crew works heritage permit chains via DGPC (Direção-Geral do Património Cultural) for all seventeen Portuguese UNESCO sites, Câmara Municipal Lisboa and Câmara Municipal Porto film offices for street-closure planning, PSP for crowd-and-traffic control, ANAC and NAV Portugal for aerial-rig airspace planning on cable-cam and Spydercam builds, ANEPC for emergency preparedness, and IPMA for Atlantic weather windows. ICA cash-rebates qualifying spend, IVA twenty-three percent invoicing, ATA carnet short-term-import handling via Autoridade Tributária, Segurança Social retained-crew at roughly thirty-four percent, and ACT labor-inspectorate compliance routes through our production-services partners.