Crew Hiring Services

Here is how the work lines up. Crew hiring in Canada draws from four major union ecosystems that don't map cleanly onto a single national agreement. Our coordinators run each one as its own bench. In British Columbia we work IATSE 891 (general technicians), 669 (camera), and 856 (animation), with department heads who came up through Vancouver Film Studios, Bridge, Mammoth, and Vancouver Sky Studios on Marvel-scale and Netflix-scale shoots — The Last of Us, Halo, Star Trek Discovery, Deadpool. Ontario crew runs through IATSE 873 alongside ACTRA Toronto, DGC Ontario, and the Pinewood Toronto and Cinespace stages.

Quebec carries its own union architecture: IATSE 514 for technicians, UDA for francophone actors, ARRQ for Quebec directors, and AQTIS-AQPM for everything else — with deal memos written in French and CNESST registration filed before anyone steps on the MELS Studios floor. Calgary draws IATSE 212 for Banff and Jasper wilderness work, the Heartland series, and the Fargo Season 4 lineage of prairie features. Atlantic work flows through IATSE 849 (Halifax) and AFM 145 musicians across the regions.

Our database holds over three thousand vetted department heads and key crew across cinematographers, gaffers, key grips, sound mixers, production designers, art directors, makeup designers, and stunt coordinators, with bilingual EN/FR skill flagged at the head-of-department level for any Quebec-shot project. We coordinate gear-and-crew packages with William F.

White Global (the national rental house), Sim Video and Sim Digital across Vancouver and Toronto, Panavision Toronto/Vancouver/Montreal, Keslow Camera, DAZMO Montreal, and MELS Equipment, so the crew you book arrives matched to the lighting, grip, and camera ecosystem they actually run. IRCC work permits route through USMCA professional categories for U.S. Crew, the Mobilité Francophone stream for Quebec-bound francophone hires, and the standard Major Benefit work permit for global department heads — with CBSA ATA carnet shepherding for global equipment crossings. Department-head shortlists ship inside forty-eight hours, daily-hire backfills same-day.