About

We are committed to bringing our customers the latest in technology, backed by a professional team and top-class service.

In March 2000, Media Film Service started out as an Arri Product-driven camera rental facility that was fully supported by Arri Media in London. Following the company’s business ethic of offering the best possible service to the film industry, it expanded from being a camera and grips, only, company, to being a complete one stop facility by adding the very latest in lighting equipment to its portfolio. This means that Media can now offer the most up to date equipment from Arri and all other leading cinematographic suppliers from all over the world.

Media Film Service has branches in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. Jannie van Wyk, managing director, says - “We can offer our clients the best equipment and unsurpassed service, anywhere in the country. We can deploy our resources from one, or all of our bases, simultaneously to ensure a seamless supply and delivery of services,including Kodak film stock and equipment. ARRI and Media believes in the industry and are continuously investing in state-of-the-art equipment, including, most recently, the Wescam.”

Including trainees, Media Film Service has grown to a complement of just over 60 staff nationwide. In the same manner that equipment is built to be mobile and work anywhere, so to is the Media Team.
The skills of the company are easily relocated to wherever it is required to provide value to our customers.

Media Film Service owes their success to three factors: first, the highly motivated and committed Media team; second, to Arri Media and Arri for providing the best motion picture equipment and international support and, third, and most important, their wonderfully loyal and supportive Customers and friends, for whom they are tremendously grateful and without whom they would not have had the opportunity to grow at the rate that they have and to be in a position to reinvest in their industry in South Africa.