Lost Galleon Films is hiring crew for WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE, a feature crime/thriller set in 1960s Nevada during a search for a wanted murderer.
Applicants for the position of GAFFER should have prior experience working as a gaffer on a feature film. Contracted duties for the position will encompass all industry standards for the position. Production will feature two digital cameras (RED), 3 Aputure P600s, 3 Aputure 1200ds, a dedicated light cart, GAFFER, Gaffer's asst., and 4 grips. You will be accorded the opportunity to hire your own assistant at the production company's rate for that position.
PLEASE indicate whether you have worked with big exterior overhead rigs!
We are filming in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and the greater San Miguel County area, for two and a half weeks in October. Locations are mixed interior and exterior. Production provides three catered meals daily (four on the handful of overnights scheduled) and clean, comfortable accommodations on a most favored nations basis with the film's producers. The production has been designed to allow maximum turnaround and minimal company moves (hotel stays the same through production, base camp moves twice.)
Applicants MUST be New Mexico locals. Please indicate whether you are able to drive to and from the set hotel in Las Vegas and to and from sets. Transportation will be provided to and from hotel and sets upon request.
***We are an independent production company based in North Carolina and have no affiliation with the AMPTP or studios of any kind and have been cleared and authorized to conduct business in the state of New Mexico***
$2,500/week on a flat rate basis, or $450 per calendar day on weeks working less than five days. Production dates will be:
October 1 - 7 (1 week)
October 8 - 14 (1 week)
October 15 - 18 (4 days)
Payment will be remitted on a weekly basis by ABS Payroll.
NOTE: Production also provides backend participation! We offer a crew pool worth a total of one percent of company's net profits at a pro rata basis of days worked by the entire below-line production crew.