Nelson
Languedoc

Available
for key
grip
Grip
cloud
specialist
Key grip available for hire · Grip cloud specialist · Vancouver basedAvailable for international work

Grip cloud specialist, ready to key. Hire one key grip and get balloons, rigging and lighting built into your crew.

Hey, I'm Nelson

Twelve hours is a long day.

So here's a bit about who you'd be spending it with. I've been a grip for ten years, the last seven on most of the big shows that come through Vancouver.

I'm from Squamish, where I grew up playing the drums and snowboarding. I love long bike rides. I've ridden to San Francisco with friends, and recently to Montana.

Right now I love making electronic music. I'm always on Marketplace looking for synths.

Nelson smiling and tipping his cap on a stone wall above wide tidal flats
What I do best

Your grip department, with balloons built in.

Three years leading at Novo, flying lighting balloons and grip clouds and training crews to fly them safely. As your key, my crew and I handle the clouds, the rigging and the balloon lighting, so you're not booking a separate balloon team.

  1. My own trained crew
  2. Grip clouds for sun diffusion
  3. Lighting balloons (half my Novo time was in LX)
  4. Rigging without telehandlers or fly swatters
Balloons and blacks flown over a large village exterior
More
agile than
machines

No pre-rigging and no big-machine access problems. Balloons go where cranes and telehandlers can't.

One of the largest lighting setups I did for Novo: 14 lighting balloons and two tubes for The Last of Us.

Selected credits

Rigs I've flown.

Some of the big exteriors I've worked on.

Let's work.

Need a key grip who can bring the clouds? Vancouver or anywhere in the world, tell me about your show.

nelsonlanguedoc@gmail.com
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