Filmotechnic USA
Home to the original Academy Award-winning U-CRANE, Flight Head, and Technoscope.
We are your partner when it comes to high-speed camera tracking and gyro-stabilized remote heads. We can handle any type of camera package, from the smallest RED to a full-size IMAX or even a multicamera array or 3D rig.
Whether you are filming a slow dolly push inches away from the talent, chasing down a tire burn on the racetrack, or handling mother nature's worst terrain we have a solution. Our team is always ready to break new ground for a custom-built solution.
We have the biggest fleet of purpose-built vehicles across 7 States, going from a Porsche Cayenne Turbo, Mercedes-Benz ML and GLE, Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, and Ford Raptor SVT Off-road trucks to other specialty vehicles such as Polaris RZR, EV Bike, Electric Cart, and Array Camera Cars.
FILMOTECHNIC USA is part of the worldwide Filmotechnic Family, a group of engineers, technicians, operators, and drivers driven by passion and knowledge. A group that provides local crew and equipment in 48 different countries around the world, so no location is too far.
Contact us today, and schedule a demo in one of our locations to discover how our equipment and crew can make the impossible possible.
History
Filmotechnic, founded in 1990 in Kyiv, Ukraine is an original in the industry and established the innovative standards by which other companies are measured. Over the past 30 years, Academy Award Winning engineer Anatoliy Kokush and his team have built a legacy of advanced camera support systems.
The company’s track record of Academy Award-winning developments coupled with other respected achievements in enabling camera movements and image stabilization delivers a diverse range of camera cranes and gyro-stabilized remote heads for the motion picture, television, and advertising industries.
Filmotechnic Kyiv remains the world headquarters for an ever-expanding company with 35 branches and partners across Europe, South- and North America, the UK, Asia, South Africa, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates.
The Academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards
In 2006, Anatoliy Kokush, Yuriy Popovsky, and Oleksiy Zolotarov were awarded a Technical Achievement Award at the 78th Academy Awards for the concept and development of the 'U-CRANE' gyro-stabilized camera crane and the gyrostabilized remote head 'Flight Head'. Later Anatoliy Kokush won an Oscar for the concept and development of the 'Traveling Cascade Crane'.
Cinec Award
In 2010, Filmotechnic received the CINEC award in the category of 'Camera Support-Systems' for the development of the gyroscopic U-CRANE and in 2018 the award was presented for the design of the new telescopic U-CRANE. The Cinec Awards are presented by the prestigious Bavarian Society for the Advancement of Film Technology, and awarded to innovative and trendsetting products and developments in motion picture technology.
Cine Gear Expo Award
In 2021 Filmotechnic received the 'Cine Gear Expo Technical Achievement Award' for the invention and design of the Technoscope telescoping camera crane series.
