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Stills and film in Chișinău light

Two halls off Strada Mateevici, a crew of five, and edited selects in your inbox two days after we wrap.

Send a brief, get a plan in a day
Woman in a cream linen shirt sitting on a wooden stool beside a tall window, late sun on a plaster wall
Ana for a linen label from Orhei. Hall B, 15:40, no lamps.

This autumn, from the Cricova cellars to Piața Centrală

Jobs 47 since January. Five of them here, the rest under NDA or still in the grading room.

Full case notes, crew lists and delivery times are on the work page.

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What leaves the halls on Mateevici

Most jobs need two of these. Many need all three, and then the same people carry the pictures from the first frame to the export.

Wine bottle and glasses on limestone in hard side light

Stills

Campaigns, portraits, catalogue and table work, lit by our south-west windows when the season allows and by strobes when it does not.

  • Shared gallery of selects48 hours
  • Retouched finals, web and print5 working days
  • Catalogue runs over 200 SKUsagreed per batch
Operator filming on an autumn boulevard with a gimbal-mounted cinema camera

Film

Brand films, interviews and short social cuts, shot in the halls, on location around Moldova, or on the street with city permits we file ourselves.

  • First assembly with temp music4 working days
  • Two rounds of edit notesincluded
  • Romanian, Russian and English subtitleswith the final
Colourist at a grading panel in front of a monitor showing vineyards at sunset

Finishing

Grading, retouching and sound for our own shoots and for footage you bring in on a drive, in a calibrated room at the back of Hall A.

  • Grade for a 60-second spot2 days
  • Beauty and product retouchfrom 24 hours
  • Masters, cut-downs and stills from the gradeone delivery

One shoot, from the first call to the hard drive

A typical two-day job for a Chișinău brand. Bigger productions stretch the middle, never the end.

Daylight loft with arched windows and sun on herringbone parquet

  1. Brief

    Day you write to us

    You send the product, the date it must go live and where the pictures will sit. We reply the same working day with a crew, a hall, a shot list draft and a price in lei.

  2. Recce

    A week before

    For location days we walk the street at the hour we will shoot it. In late October the sun leaves Ștefan cel Mare boulevard around 16:30, so we plan the wide shots for the morning.

  3. Shoot

    The day itself

    Call time 8:00, hot lunch in the courtyard kitchen at 13:00, wrap by 19:00. A tethered screen sits by the set so you approve frames as they land, not a week later.

  4. Delivery

    48 hours to 5 days after

    Selects go up in a private gallery within two days. Graded film and retouched finals follow, along with RAW files on a drive you keep. We hold a backup for 24 months.

Two halls and a kit room in a courtyard on Mateevici

Ground floor, a gate wide enough for a van, and a freight lift to Hall B. Rent the halls with our crew or on your own.

Hall A, a curved white cyclorama with a concrete floor and two softboxes

Hall A, the cyclorama

11.4 by 8.2 metres, a 5.1-metre ceiling, a white cove painted fresh every Monday, full blackout and three-phase power for big lamps.

Hall B, a loft with three arched windows and sun on the parquet
Cinema camera, prime lenses, light meter and sandbags on a wooden bench

Hall B, the window room

Three arched windows face south-west. In October sun reaches the parquet at 14:00 and leaves at 16:50; in June we draw the linen at noon.

1 380 lei

Hall B for four hours with house lights. Full rates, kit and crew are on the studio page.

Notes from the street and the grading room

What we learn on jobs, written down so we stop relearning it.

Asked before most bookings

Anything missing, ask on the phone. Weekdays 9:00 to 19:00.

How soon do we see pictures?

You see them on the tethered screen during the shoot. Edited selects arrive in a private gallery within 48 hours, retouched finals within five working days. Film assemblies take four working days.

Do you shoot outside Chișinău?

Yes, across Moldova and in Romania. Orhei, Cricova and Codru wineries are regular day trips. For anything over 60 km we add travel time and per diems to the estimate, nothing hidden.

Can we rent a hall without your crew?

Yes. Halls rent from four hours with house lights, stands and the cove. A studio manager stays on site to open the kit room and help with load-in through the courtyard.

Which languages does the crew work in?

Romanian, Russian and English on set. Subtitles and voice-over in all three are part of the film price.

Who owns the pictures?

You get the usage rights written into the estimate, usually unlimited online use and two years of print. Authorship stays with the photographer under Moldovan copyright law, which is standard and costs you nothing.

What if it rains on a location day?

We hold a weather day in the plan and move the shoot to it at no charge if the forecast the evening before is worse than agreed. If you would rather shoot anyway, Hall B is usually free as a cover set.

Tell us what you are making and when it has to be ready

Write two lines or twenty. We answer the same working day with dates, a crew and a price.

Send a brief +373 69 214 538