HMI & Tungsten Lights

HMI and tungsten stock in Italy sits mainly with Panalight Rome and Milan, Stop-Service for lighting and grip, Cinecittà Rental on the Tuscolana campus, and Lumiq Studios in Turin. Movie People in Naples, EM srl, and Cargo Studios Bologna fill the regional gaps when a feature day stretches across many areas.

Our rental team books the full ARRI M-series from M8 through M90, K5600 Joker and Alpha fixtures (Joker2 800, 1600, Alpha 4K, Alpha 9K, Alpha 18K), and ARRI T-series tungsten Fresnels from 150W Pepper through 20K Wendy. We also book Mole-Richardson Big Eye Tens, Baby Junior 2Ks, and the 12K and 18K Mole Molepar units that shoots still call for on Cinecittà Studio 5 and the Mediaset stages in Cologno Monzese.

Daylight conversion runs hard in the Mediterranean summer. Interiors against the Sicilian sun at Noto and Modica, or the harsh Amalfi glare, need 18K and 12K HMIs pushed through 12x12 and 20x20 frames. Tungsten stays the workhorse for Centro Storico interiors, Florence palazzi, the Vatican-adjacent shoots, and the battery-only kit needs at heritage sites like Pompei and Herculaneum, where Soprintendenza rules limit cable routes and ground anchors.

Each fixture is bench-tested under load at the warehouse. We run the electronic ballast cycles, log lamp hours on the ARRI EB and K5600 ballasts, and log dimmer curves on the DMX and Art-Net boards. Tungsten globes are checked against the dimmer curve and the gaffer's plot before the trucks roll out for the call.

Italian gaffers and best boys from the long-running Cinecittà and Lumiq pools work alongside our team. They handle load math and power-pack sizing, mostly Pramac, FB Group, SDMO, or Multiquip silent gensets staged for HMI runs that exceed the ready mains tie-in at sites such as Lambrate stages, Cinque Terre cliffside, or the Sicilian baroque streets. They also handle CCNL Cinema Audiovisivo crewing terms, with ENPALS and INAIL safety forms filed before the first call.

Our location office handles ZTL access for Rome's Centro Storico, the narrow lanes of Florence, the marble piazze of Lecce, and the cliff-top hairpins above the Amalfi coast, using small-footprint vans and pre-cleared permits set up with city police. The 24-hour swap cycle out of Rome and Milan keeps replacement Pars, Fresnels, ballasts, lamps, header cables, and Bates feeder on the shelf for shoot-day damage and last-minute adds. In parallel, the Italian Cinema Plan 40% rebate records move through MiC channels.