Grip Services

Here is what that looks like on the ground. We supply grip gear and crew for shoots across Belgium, packaging dollies, track, jib arms, sliders, camera supports, stands, flags, frames and rigging hardware to the needs of each shoot. Our grip crews — key grip, dolly grip and grip electricians — plan camera movement and rigging with the DP and gaffer during the tech scout, working out floor levelling, track runs and mounting points for the specific location.

Here is how that works. Belgium's variety of looks shapes the grip plan: a dolly move on the cobbles of Bruges, a camera car rig for an Antwerp street scene, and a studio crane setup near Brussels each call for different hardware. Our teams work in Dutch, French and English, and they set up grip and lighting together so frames, diffusion and overhead rigging arrive on one truck. Whether the production is a feature, a commercial or a documentary, we scale the grip package and crew to match the schedule and the size of the camera department.

Here is how the picture comes together. Belgium's grip inventory and crew depth are a product of a mature service-production sector. The Belgian Tax Shelter, a tax-incentive investment mechanism, has drawn global features and series to the country and supported the rental houses and studio sites that grip departments draw on. Regional funds. Screen Flanders and the VAF, Wallimage, screen.brussels — reinforce the ecosystem, and the INSAS and RITCS film schools in Brussels feed grips and assistants into the workforce.

Here is what we have to work with. In practice, the work is hands-on. For grip work on location in heritage city cores such as the UNESCO-listed Grand-Place or the Historic Centre of Bruges, track, cranes and rigging in public space are ruled by city and regional permits, and our coordinators secure those approvals as part of the production plan. We also plan around the mild, frequently wet maritime climate, since rain affects both the safety of rigging and the footing for dolly and crane moves on exterior locations.