Local Fixer Services

Italy is the home of film fixing, the country where servicing global shoots was first shaped and refined across half a century at Cinecittà. The same Italian fixer families who served Ben-Hur, Cleopatra and La Dolce Vita have spent the decades since on The Talented Mr. Ripley, Eat Pray Love, Spectre, the James Bond runs, the Mission: Impossible features, Star Wars units, Wes Anderson features, and today's streaming series that move through Rome, Lake Como, the Amalfi Coast and Apulia.

Our fixers come from that lineage and are the second and third generation working it. They carry direct ties across Italy's twenty regional film commissions — Roma Lazio, Lombardia, Apulia, Sicilia, Sardegna, Toscana, Veneto, Campania, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Trentino — and with Cinecittà, ANICA, AGICI and the Ministero della Cultura. They route the 40% Italian Cinema Plan tax credit through MiC and layer in regional rebates that combine cleanly with the national credit. They also handle ATA Carnets and Schengen visas plus Nulla Osta work permits through Italian consulates, so the global crews arrive clean and the gear clears customs on the first try.

On the ground the role is pure local guidance.

Our fixers manage Comune permits across Rome's centro storico under the ZTL tight-traffic rules. They set up the work with the Vigili Urbani and Questura for road work, traffic running, parking suspensions and crowd control, and they route each heritage application through the relevant Soprintendenza. That means Colosseo and Foro Romano under MiC authorisation with big fees, Venice's dual city and Soprintendenza permits with acqua alta tide tables in hand, and Pompeii's named filming zones with an archaeological park escort. It also covers Florentine palazzi, Trulli villages around Alberobello, the Cinque Terre clifftop trails, and the Sicilian baroque towns of Noto, Modica and Ragusa.

Drone work goes through ENAC's D-Flight portal, with no-fly buffers mapped against airports and heritage sites. Studio space at Cinecittà, the Lumiq site in Turin, the Apulia Film Studios in Bari, and the regional studio clusters in Milan and Sardegna is booked through long-standing Italian ties built over generations. When something goes sideways — a sudden church saint's day procession, an unexpected acqua alta in Venice, a vendor strike, an August ferragosto closure or a film commission deadline shift — our fixers solve it in Italian inside the same shooting day and keep the production moving.

Safety and cover sit under all of it. Our fixers confirm the crew and public cover that each Comune and Soprintendenza ask for before a permit is signed. They file INAIL work cover for the local crew. They brief safety officers on stunt, water, drone, and heritage-site work. Risk plans are mapped for crowd days, road running, and far coastal sites. Medical, security, and help contacts are lined up at each site. So the unit has a clear plan if a day goes wrong.