Grip Services

Here is how this works in practice. Our grip teams in New Zealand give key grip and dolly grip leadership across the full inventory range: Fisher 10/11/23, Chapman Hybrid IV / PeeWee IV / Olympian II, Magnum and PolarBear sliders, Movie Bird and Technocrane 22/30 jibs, MovieTech and ITM crane heads, and Russian Arm / Ultimate Arm rigs sourced cross-border from Filmworks Sydney under the 3-hour trans-Tasman flight window when projects justify the import.

Here is how this works in practice. Stone Street Studios in Miramar, Kumeu Film Studios (the Avatar 2/3 production hub in Auckland), Auckland Film Studios, and Avalon Studios in Lower Hutt all keep in-house grip departments that our key grips integrate with seamlessly. South Island wilderness grip work. Fiordland, Aoraki/Mount Cook, Glenorchy, the Mackenzie — frequently calls for low-build modular truss and weatherised car-mount packages set to handling the Tasman Sea wind exposure and ex-tropical cyclone risk windows in March-April.

Here is the short of it. The grip heritage in Aotearoa was built across the LOTR trilogy and Hobbit trilogy under Peter Jackson, where elaborate Mt. Doom helicopter rigging, Hobbiton miniature dolly work, and Tongariro tracking shots set the tech benchmark. Avatar Way of Water at Kumeu, Power of the Dog with Ari Wegner on the South Island, and the Rings of Power Amazon Prime production have all grown the senior grip pool.

Here is the short of it. We bundle WorkSafe NZ rigging certifications, ACC universal accident insurance, MEAA-Equity NZ reciprocal credentialing, and iwi/hapū consultation where Te Tiriti partnership duties apply on Aoraki, Taranaki, and Tongariro. Department of Conservation concession permits are integrated into each wilderness grip plan, with NZSPG 20% + 5% productivity uplift records routed through the New Zealand Film Commission and regional Screen Auckland, Screen Wellington, ChristchurchNZ Film, and Film Otago Southland offices.