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Shoot days, planned on Uzinelor street.

We plan stills and film for brands across Moldova, from recce and permits to the call sheet, shoot them in two daylight halls in Ciocana, and send selects within 48 hours of wrap.

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Hall A in the afternoon: tall factory windows, low sun across a concrete floor, a chair on the white cyclorama.
Hall A at twenty past four in late October, when the sun drops below the roofs across the street.

Shot from Uzinelor 19 this year

Most of our days start in one of the halls and end somewhere in the city or out in Codru. A few from 2026, with the brief they began as.

Glass of red wine, cracked walnuts and a quince on a slab of pale limestone in hard side light.

Feteasca Neagra, autumn release

Stills for a winery in Codru. Brief on 2 September, two days in Hall A, 64 retouched frames on the 11th.
Camera on a dolly track on a wet cobbled street of one-storey limestone houses.

Mateevici street, 45 seconds

A spot for a regional bank. One block closed for six hours under a Primăria permit; offline cut in five working days.
A woman in a grey coat with a camera and notebook in a Botanica courtyard covered in yellow leaves.

Courtyards in Botanica

Recce only. Twenty-three courtyards walked in three mornings for a furniture catalogue that shoots in spring.
Amber vineyard rows at sunset with a white van and two people setting up a tripod.

Rows above Cricova

A golden-hour film for a sparkling house. Two vans, a crew of nine, wrapped at 18:40.
Market stall with crates of quinces, sacks of walnuts and a vendor weighing grapes.

Piața Centrală before seven

Editorial for a food quarterly. Stalls agreed with the vendors themselves the Friday before.

Open the full work index

A shoot runs quietly on Thursday because someone rang the Primăria on Monday.

That someone is usually Doina, our head of production. Planning is most of what we sell; the halls are where it pays off.

A week from brief to wrap, run from Ciocana

Most commercial briefs we take are shot eight to twelve days after the first call. This is the usual shape of that time.

Planning table with location prints, pencil storyboards and a calendar grid. Location scout in a Botanica courtyard in autumn. Film crew on an old Chișinău street with a dolly track laid on the cobbles. Grading desk with a trackball panel and a vineyard print on oak, blinds half closed.
  1. The day your brief lands

    We read it and call you back

    Before 18:00 the same working day a producer calls, not a form reply. What the brief needs, what it can lose, and a first estimate in lei with VAT shown on its own line.

  2. Days two to four

    Recce in town or out past Ialoveni

    We walk each location at the hour you would shoot it and note the sun, the power, where the van parks and who lives upstairs. You get a recce file with stills and a map pin for every spot.

  3. Two days before

    Permits and the call sheet

    Permits from the Chișinău Primăria or the village mayoralty, crew list, a schedule to the quarter hour and a rain plan that moves the day into Hall A. The call sheet goes out by 18:00, forty-eight hours ahead.

  4. After wrap

    Selects first, finished files after

    Contact sheets or a first assembly within 48 hours. Retouched stills in seven working days, a graded film master in ten.

Three desks in one building on Uzinelor

Stills, film and finishing share one producer and one calendar, so a brief that needs all three gets a single schedule and a single invoice.

Hall B with paper backdrop rolls in terracotta, sage and grey under a skylight.

Stills

Product, food and catalogue. A photographer, an assistant and a digital tech on every day, shooting tethered so you sign off frames on set rather than a week later over email.

  • Contact sheetSame evening
  • Selects with our notes48 hours
  • Retouched frames7 working days
  • Print TIFF and web JPEGWith retouch
Vineyard rows near Cricova at golden hour with a crew van at the end of the track.

Film

Spots, short brand films and social cutdowns. Bring the director you have chosen, or we suggest two from Chișinău who suit the brief. Camera, lights and grip come from the cage downstairs.

  • First assembly48 hours
  • Offline cut5 working days
  • Rounds of changesTwo included
  • Cutdowns in 9:16 and 1:1With the offline
Finishing room: trackball panel, vineyard print and a stripe of daylight through blinds.

Finishing

Grade, retouch and sound for work we shot or someone else did. One calibrated grading room on the first floor, booked by the half day, with a sofa for the person who has to approve it.

  • Grade review in the roomBooked slot
  • Graded master, ProRes 422 HQ10 working days
  • Stills retouch9 frames a day
  • Raw files kept on our drive18 months

Hall A, Hall B and the cage downstairs

A former instrument works at str. Uzinelor 19, Ciocana. We rent the halls on their own as well, with or without our planning.

Hall A with factory windows and a white cyclorama.

Hall A

North-west windows, 6.4 m to the trusses, a white cyclorama nine metres wide. Low sun from about half past three between October and March.

Floor
212 m²
Power
63 A, three-phase
Blackout
Full, motorised
Access
Ground level, van to the door
Equipment rack with fresnels, LED panels, sandbags, C-stands and a grip cart.
Hall B with backdrop rolls and two softboxes.

Hall B

86 m² under a skylight, eleven paper colours on the wall. Good for knitwear, ceramics and portraits. Booked from four hours.

See hall rates and the equipment list

Notes from the city and the hills

What this season's recces and permits taught us, written up for the next production that needs it. Open the journal

Quinces, grapes and walnuts at a market stall.

Booking Piața Centrală before seven

The vendors decide, not the market office. How we ask, and what stall time costs.
Courtyard of apartment blocks in Botanica with autumn leaves.

Recce kit for the Botanica courtyards

A sun-path app, a 35 mm lens and a list of who holds the basement keys.
Vineyard at sunset north of Chișinău.

Where the sun goes down over Cricova

Sunset notes for vineyard days north of the city, week by week into November.
Dolly track on a cobbled street in central Chișinău.

Filming on Mateevici: what the Primăria asked for

Seven documents, eleven working days and one conversation with the traffic police.
Vineyard print and trackballs on the finishing desk.

Grading for limestone

Chișinău stone turns green under cheap LED. How we keep it warm in the grade.

Send the brief by Tuesday, shoot the week after.

Tell us what you need in hand and by which date. A producer calls back the same working day with a plan and a price.

Send a brief +373 22 47 06 18

Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 19:00
str. Uzinelor 19, Chișinău