Hi! We're Riviera Maya Grip, the only provider of Lighting, Grip & Electric on the Yucatan Peninsula. Our 3000 square foot studio is located between Cancun and Playa del Carmen, close to Tulum, the airport and the toll road to Merida and the Yucatan. We service all of Mexico, Belize* and Honduras with equipment and trucks that are physically already here.

** This is the first site update in 4 years! Please bear with me as I redesign this site between shoots!

What we offer:

In a nutshell I have a 3.5 Ton Grip and a 1 Ton Run Van. Both are diesel powered, A/C'd, racked and stocked; ready for your commercial, video or feature production. The 3.5 Ton comes loaded for bear and features work lights, a jib crane, awnings and more tweaks to make for fast and comfortable work flow. The 1 Ton seats 3 and is optimized for Blow & Go hotel and interview production. The 1 Ton also has camera platforms on the roof, fore and aft with elemac bases. Either van can be tweaked with HMI, Kino, LED and Tungsten packages as suit your needs. Count on fair package and a la carte rentals.

RMG crew is seasoned, fast and multilingual (Spanish, English, Japanese). Our clients run from Armani to ZDF for stills, video and film shoots. We've done our share of documentaries and Televison for National Geographic, Discovery, BBC and others. MTV, etc., too. Follow the links to Lighting and Grip, Electric, Camera Support, Trucks and Packages, Production Support and Fabrication. You can find our current client list here.

Still shooters: We now have access to Profoto gear in 1200ws packs. Two packs and a total of 4 heads.

Our newest endeavor, a 3000 square foot white and green corner cyc'ed studio in Puerto Morelos has a full grid, big power, a massive product table with pantographs for those profotos, make up and wardrobe rooms and a little client nook. Big wifi, and an espresso machine round out your in studio experience. There's a full shop for set work. And a crew crash room with a hot shower and bunks. Learn more at The Studios at Puerto Morelos.

If you are planning on Central America or Belize, we can get you in and out with a minimum of stress. We are proud partners with Belize's Film Works and Fer de Lance Productions.

Gear

HMI's, Brutes, Kino's, LED's, Cranes & Jibs, Stands, Bags and Boxes, Overheads, Gennies and Distro, Dollies and Track, Rigging and Speedrail, Camera Support and Mounts, Camera Vans and a wicked go anywhere 4x4 Camera Car built off a Toyota FJ60.

Knowledge & Access

Owner/Operator D. Adair Crow has 20+ years in the region and a lifetime in the business. Gaffer for hire, professional photographer and writer, with on the ground experience to make your shoot happen in virtually any condition or location. Colleague Israel Gonzalez is our Locations Manager/Fixer/UPM and can pull rabbits out of hats for permitting and locations. For truly massive productions and tricky INAH Archaeological Permitting we call on Rene Blanco at Riviera Maya Films and their proven infrastructure.

If I don't have it here, we can get it from Mexico City or Miami. Most importantly, we can get you in the country, permitted and with your own camera gear to make your shoot happen.

We also have a few good men in the water with housings for everthing from a P2 to a Red One, safety divers in open water, wrecks and cenotes. Access to biosphere reserves, public areas and private are all part of our services.

It's turtles all the way down!

The Film Tools Medium Car Mount

Out in the weeds in the Yucatan Peninsula with the little trucks.

Simba (Fixer), Adair (Gaffer), Jose (Grip) & Ilka (Make Up/SFX)
and our exclusive line of Raingear...