Gaffer & Lighting Services Belgium

Here is what that looks like on the ground. We supply gaffers, best boys, electricians and grip crews for shoots in Belgium. Our team places gaffers who design and execute the lighting plan with the director of photography — top the electrical department, calculating loads, managing power distribution, and rigging fixtures for studio and location work. Grips handle camera support, dollies, cranes and the rigging that holds it all safely in place. They are proficient with LED, HMI and tungsten systems, hold strong relationships with Belgian rental houses, and adapt to the differing power infrastructure of medieval interiors, modern studios and exteriors. Belgian lighting and grip crews work fluently across Dutch, French and English on the country's bilingual sets.

Here is how the picture comes together. Belgium's lighting and grip pool is trained through the country's film schools and the apprenticeship route of working shoots, and deepened by the steady global work the Tax Shelter brings. This has made Belgium a major service-production hub. Crews here are used to the diffuse grey northern light and naturalistic look of Belgian cinema — the visual world of the Dardenne brothers and of 'The Broken Circle Breakdown' — as well as the larger, more designed lighting of genre and global work.

Here is how that works. They have lit the global features and series that finish through the Tax Shelter alongside homegrown films competing for the Magritte and Ensor awards. EU freedom of movement lets a production add crew from neighbouring countries. We match each gaffer and grip team to the scale and lighting ambition of the production.