Vehicle Mounting

Here is how this works in practice. Our car mounting inventories across Australia carry the full feature kit: hostess trays, hood mounts, suction-cup arrays (Filmtools and Matthews), American Grip and Current Studio Gear side mounts, Cinemoves Telescope I and Lambda Dolly via cross-border US partners, plus full Russian Arm and Ultimate Arm camera cars from Filmworks LA and Cinemoves shipped via Qantas Cargo for major commercial and feature work.

Cross-Tasman pull-in from Shotover Camera kits Queenstown NZ (3-hour Sydney-Auckland flight) brings gyro-stabilised aerial F1 and K1 systems for car-to-car work.

Here is the short of it. Key Australian shooting routes. Sydney to Melbourne coastal highway, the Great Ocean Road and Twelve Apostles (Victoria), Bondi to Manly via Sydney Harbour, Yarra Valley wine corridor, Surfers Paradise to Byron Bay, the F1 Australian Grand Prix circuit at Albert Park (annual March), and the Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama (annual October Supercars Championship) — anchor car-mount work, with Outback shooting on Toyota Hilux (Australia's best-selling car).

Here is the breakdown. Australia's car-mount heritage is centred on Mad Max Fury Road (Miller 2015 — 6 Oscars including Production Design, Costume, Editing, and all 3 Sound types), shot in Namibia but with Village Roadshow Studios Gold Coast as production base. Furiosa (Miller 2024) extended the franchise's car-rig and car-mount language.

The Matrix trilogy (Wachowskis 1999-2003 — Sydney Fox Studios) and Wolverine (2013) introduced major freeway and car action shot in Sydney.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. We set up state road authority permits (Transport for NSW, Department of Transport Victoria, Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads), Producer Offset 30% forms through Screen Australia, MEAA crew agreements with reciprocal SAG-AFTRA/IATSE/DGA recognition, Safe Work Australia stunt and rigging compliance, and Aboriginal Land Council consultation for country-bound driving plates.