Fixing — local production services in Kenya

I’m a KFCB-registered local film agent in Kenya, working as the on-the-ground production lead for international natural-history, broadcast, and commercial crews coming into the country.

What “fixing” actually means here

When a BBC NHU unit, a Nat Geo crew, a Netflix docuseries, or a commercial producer wants to film in Kenya, they need someone local who can:

• Move permits through KFCB — the Kenya Film Classification Board permits required to film professionally; the conservancy and national-park permits required for wildlife work; the special permissions for drone operations at protected sites.
• Scout locations and access them — knowing which patches of which conservancies hold the subject at which season, and which lodges, ranch owners, conservancy managers or community-trust contacts are the right people to negotiate the access through.
• Source crew, kit and logistics — local production runners, drivers, safety, fixers’ fixers; rental kit on the day (much of the back-up rig comes through hirevisual.com, the sister rental company I operate); accommodation that doesn’t burn the production’s budget but doesn’t pretend to be tented when the crew is carrying $300k of cinema kit.
• Operate as primary cameraman where it makes sense — for some projects I run as fixer-and-shooter, which collapses the rig and keeps the unit lean. This is how the Silk Road Visual exhibition project ran (primary cameraman + lead fixer through the 2025 production block).

Recent fixing credits

• Silk Road Visual exhibition — primary cameraman + lead fixer, 2025. Lead documentary cinematography on the Silk Road Visual project across multiple Kenyan locations, integrated with the Canniverse MSG-Sphere-spec workflow.
• BBC Natural History Unit — recurring drone-operator-plus-fixer work across the unit’s Kenyan shoots.
• Cheli & Peacock Safaris — ongoing production-services work supporting the operator’s brand coverage.
• Nigel Archer Safaris — production services for the operator’s high-end safari operation.

Why fix with me rather than a general fixer

I’m a film person, not a logistics broker who happens to live near the parks. I know the gear, I know the broadcast tier, I know how a NHU unit thinks about coverage — because I’m in the unit on most of the productions I’m running fixing for. That alignment means the production crew shows up, plugs in, and the unit picks up where it would have if it were already on the ground.

To enquire about fixing services for an upcoming East African production, get in touch.