Specialty Camera Rigs

Here is how this works in practice. Specialty rig work in Italy draws on a tight network of operators clustered around Rome and Milan — Action Group, Cinegrip and the freelance Russian Arm operators who service feature productions out of Cinecittà and Mediaset.

Here is the short of it. Our team sets up Russian Arms and pursuit-arm chase-car setups for autostrada and Centro Storico driving sequences, cable-cam and wire-cam systems for aerial coverage across Tuscany hill towns and the canal lines of Venice, motion-control rigs for VFX work tied to Cinecittà and Lumiq Turin stages, and DJI plus Freefly aerial sites operated by Italian pilots licensed under ENAC. Boat-mount packages cover the Venice canals, Lake Como, the Amalfi Coast and Sardinia, with skilled Italian marine ops handling the harbour-master coordination that water work always demands.

Here is the breakdown. Safety and permitting drive every rig brief. We file ZTL exemptions for chase cars working Roman streets, set up Soprintendenza approvals when rigs operate on or near heritage facades, and run risk assessments aligned with INAIL safety protocols and CCNL Cinema Audiovisivo crewing rules. Italian rigging key grips, best boys and stunt coordinators are paired with the gear so the operator briefing matches the gear, and our coordinator manages ferry logistics when a Russian Arm has to cross to Sicily or Sardinia for a feature sequence. Custom rigging — crash housings, POV cages, Soprintendenza-compliant mounting for shoots inside protected sites — is fabricated through our partner shops in Rome and Milan to the same broadcast-grade specs Mediaset and Sky Italia productions specify.