If your show is union, your aerial unit has to be too. That is not a preference, it is a condition of hiring.
New Mexico's studio productions crew union, and the state's incentive structure rewards productions that hire locally. We supply Local 600 aerial crews for shows shooting out of the Albuquerque studios.
CineDrones supplies Local 600 crews for union productions and non-union crews where the show allows it. We know how the aerial unit fits into the camera department on a union call sheet, how the day is accounted for, and what production accounting needs from us. It is the least glamorous part of the job and the part that most often decides whether a vendor gets hired twice.
New Mexico's incentive rewards local hiring, which built a real crew base around the Albuquerque studios. It is smaller than the major markets, so when several productions overlap, availability tightens quickly.
New Mexico's incentive program and the studio build-out around Albuquerque have made this a steady production base rather than a location-only market. The landscape is the reason productions come, and landscape is what aerial units are for.
We shoot the Sandias, the high desert, the studio campuses, and the mesas — and we travel. CineDrones works nationwide, so if your production is basing in Albuquerque and shooting somewhere else entirely, that is a normal week for us.
The same toolkit on union and non-union days — the crewing changes, the capability does not.
Our aerial units have worked on Ozark, Jack Ryan, Bosch, Mayans M.C., SEAL Team, NCIS: New Orleans, Fear the Walking Dead, American Horror Story, Modern Family, 9-1-1, Goliath, The Resident, Raising Dion, Castle Rock, Doctor Sleep and Chef's Table, for Netflix, Amazon, Apple, HBO, Hulu, Showtime, Sony, CBS, AMC, MTV and Bravo. See the work →
We supply Local 600 crews for productions that require them and non-union crews where the show allows. You do not need to source two vendors to cover both cases.
As part of the camera department, with the classifications and accounting your UPM expects. It is the least interesting part of the job and the part that most often decides whether a vendor gets a second call.
Yes. Plenty of productions run union principal photography and non-union second unit or promo work. We staff to whatever the specific day requires.
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