At Andy’s Rigging, we move people and props exactly as your story demands – safely, smoothly, and on schedule. Our focus is specialist wire effects and stunt rigging for film, TV, and commercials, all led by an Advanced Wire Effects Supervisor with SITAC training, Bectu membership, and £10,000,000 public liability cover.
You face tight turnarounds, shifting ideas, and high stakes. We bring clear plans, quick mobilisation, and tidy, camera-aware rigs that keep confidence high and resets predictable. Brief us once — we’ll handle the rest.
Safety and liability
You need qualified people, documented checks, and cast comfort. We provide RAMS, kit checks, and discreet harness fitting as standard.
Creative ambition versus real-world constraints
We translate bold beats into compact, reliable systems that protect the frame, the performer, and the schedule.
Late changes
Our modular rigs and always-responsive crew adapt without chaos — or hidden extras.
Cinematic wire work for features, HETV, and commercials – assisted jumps, lateral drifts, multi-axis flights.
Solves: unnatural motion, slow resets, and department clashes.
Rig design and operation for people and props – anchors, lines, winches, descenders, bespoke harnessing.
Solves: cast confidence, risk management, and clean frames.
Believable flight shaped to the lens – feathered holds, crisp snaps, smooth ins and outs.
Solves: “floaty” movement and multiple set-ups in a single day.
Comfort-led harnessing and progressive rehearsals so the acting, not the kit, takes centre stage.
Solves: anxiety in the harness and uneven cues.
Precise, discreet rigs for hero items in commercials – balanced, controllable, and easy to paint out.
Solves: fragile finishes, & messy resets.
Jerk and snatch backs, descenders, vertical drops, death slides, trapeze safety, and balloon rigs.
Solves: safe, repeatable control.
End-to-end safety rigging that integrates seamlessly with stunts, camera, lighting, and art.
Solves: force paths, redundancy, and fast rebuilds.
Natural-looking flight for action beats, tuned to performance and picture.
Solves: harsh starts, wrong speed curves, and unhappy cast.
Two-point and multi-point cable cams for smooth, repeatable overhead moves – and safe.
Solves: unsafe improvised overhead shots and slow manual passes.
We’re based near Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, working daily across London, nationwide and internationally. That means fast site visits, local knowledge of stages and backlots, and anchor strategies suited to compact studios and busy city locations. Productions here often face tight stage windows and limited rigging footprints – our systems are built for fast set-ups, discreet routing, and steady performance under pressure.
You’re hiring specialists with decades on set, not generalists. Andy has rigged since 1994, progressing through the SITAC scheme to Advanced Rigger, then Wire Effects Supervisor. That experience shows in calmer days, cleaner frames, and reliable on-set collaboration.
We’re Bectu members, fully insured, and responsive around the clock when production shifts. Whether you’re shooting a feature, a high-end TV drama, or a global brand commercial, you’ll get safe, controlled motion that looks effortless on screen.
Our credits span blockbuster films, high-end drama, and major brand campaigns. The results speak for themselves – safe sets, believable motion, and clean frames every time.
Tell us what you want the audience to feel, and we’ll design the safest, cleanest route to camera.
Call 07799 651619 or request a tailored quote.
Explore our services: Film & TV wire-effects, Wire rigging, Flying effects, Performer flying, Product flying, Custom stunts, Stunt rigging, Stunt flying, Cable camera systems.
Andy's rigging is a commission-and-forget service. Once a brief is accepted, there is reassurance that the job will be executed to the highest industry standards.
Production companies assume suppliers have technical ability. What you are looking for is commitment, responsiveness and good communication: Andy's rigging can provide all of these.
You get a team totally familiar with this sort of challenge and confident about the outcome. All transport, equipment and harnessess are supplied and fitted.
Give us an initial call to check availability and discuss the requirement.
We are always available for last minute meetings, zoom calls and reccies
We’ll get back to you promptly with a plan and quotation.
Work can start to match your tight time schedules.
Whenever a job comes in that requires a specialist rigging company, it is Andy that I call.
Andy is a great communicator and his extensive knowledge of all aspects of the industry means he always has the answer, including seeking solutions that fit the client’s budget.
Whether it is something we have done before or a project that needs a different approach, Andy can draw on his experience to find the right approach.
Andy’s depth knowledge of equipment, materials and safety protocols is invaluable in a pressurised budget driven industry.
Andy’s Team are always on time, professional and sensitive to the pressure of others, I can’t recommend this company enough.
Andy Thompson, my go to rigger, is one of the safest, user friendly riggers in the biz,
Andy is capable of supervising any rigging requirement that arises, even when changes on set are needed.
25 years in the business means that Andy has an encyclopedia of experience to draw on.
Andy communicates effectively with colleagues at all levels and with key crew such as Directors, Heads of Department and First Assistant Directors.
There is virtually no stunt or flying effect requirement that Andy cannot scope and deliver.
Sourcing all rigging materials and ensuring that they are supplied on time and at the agreed price is paramount to Andy’s Rigging.
The safety of their own lives, and those of the cast and crew with whom they are working, are in the rigging crew’s hands. Andy has superb safety track record.
