Grip crew
IRATA-certified grips with PER nautical licences
The crew is not an accessory to the kit: it is what makes the kit work. Our grips hold IRATA rope-access certification and PER nautical licences, which lets us take on height rigging and water work without subcontracting and without surprises in the safety plan.
Key Grip
Jefe de máquinasRuns the grip department on set. Works out how each move is achieved with the DoP, specifies the rigging and is accountable for the safety of everything that goes up. Single point of contact for production and the camera department.
Best Boy Grip
Segundo de máquinasThe key grip’s right hand. Manages crew, kit and rigging times, and stays a set-up ahead so the camera never waits.
Dolly Grip
Maquinista de dollyOperates the dolly. A precision craft: the move has to start and stop on the exact frame, repeat identically take after take, and go unnoticed. Lays and levels the track, working in direct coordination with the focus puller.
Crane Grip
Maquinista de grúaRigs, counterweights and operates the crane. Calculates the load, checks the base is properly seated and coordinates the arm move with the head operator. Every crane we supply comes with a grip: we do not send one out on its own.
Rigging Grip
Maquinista de rigging en alturaRope-access work: façade mounts, suspended structures, camera positions with no access. With IRATA-certified crew in-house, we take this on ourselves instead of subcontracting an outside height-work company. Certificates go out with the quote, so they can go straight into the safety plan.
Marine Grip
Maquinista con titulación náuticaWater work: rigging a crane on the vessel, tracking on water and clearing it with the harbour authority. Skippered under a PER licence. The same person who rigs the arm runs the boat, which removes the usual gap between the shoot and an outside boat crew.
Precision Driver
Conductor de camera carPrecision driving with the arm rigged and the camera outside the vehicle envelope. Sets the run with the camera department and the action coordinator, working alongside the grip operating the arm from inside the car.
Grip
Auxiliar de máquinasThe muscle and the hands of the department. Lays track, sets flags and diffusion, moves kit and keeps the set running. It is where the craft is learned, and where our key grips come from.
The two certifications marked — IRATA for rope access and PER for water work — are not common in the sector. They are what let us say yes to a façade rig or a water sequence without bringing an outside company into the safety plan. Certificates go out with the quote: in safety, what is not documented does not count.
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