Client Corner

Cine Equipment is one of those inspiring success stories. “We began as a small potatoes company in Singapore and now, almost 18 years later, we’ve got offices in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, Melbourne Australia, Bangkok Thailand and Manila Philippines,” says Tng Siew Moi, the petite driving force behind the company. “She’s a dynamo in a small package!,” says MSE’s Bob Kulesh. “She’s the face of one of the strongest equipment suppliers in this market – popping up everywhere, including on the Red Carpet at the Cannes Film Festival.” A self-proclaimed workaholic, she admits she knew nothing about the ‘business’ when she...

When gaffer Robert Oberc moved to Slovenia from Germany, he began working in the lighting department filming advertisements and feature films. In 2006 he founded Candella Lighting and began to gather different support products for his and a few other shooters use. While attending the 2010 CINEC Convention in Munich, Oberc connected with Matthews Studio Equipment’s Robert Kulesh and Linda Swope. “I’d heard of the company before,” Oberc says. “Meeting the two in person helped me decide that it was time to buy my own equipment for rent on various shoots. I now have everything from suction cups to Mombo...

They say “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors”. We at Matthews beg to differ. To us, fences are to keep away, to keep out. That’s not what we’re all about. We’re about relationships and the free flow of ideas and support (and we don’t always mean support equipment!). A couple of buildings down (well, from our “old” building – soon to be a couple of blocks) is one of the hottest companies in the industry today – Cameron|Pace. We’ve known Vince Pace for years and have recently made friends with his partner James Cameron. MSE has been supplying Cameron|Pace with all...

“We love it when our clients voice their support for our services and equipment, it’s always nice to hear,” says Robert Kulesh, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for MSE. “And, love it even more when our client Bclip out of Ashville, North Carolina gets inventive with their praise – like the new ‘training video’ they shot for our FloatCam DC-Slider.” (CLICK HERE to check it out) BClip’s Creative Director Chris Bainbridge is easy to praise MSE in words – they’ve been using the company’s equipment to shoot for everything from Fortune 500 companies to independent start-ups for years. “It’s...

Matthews Studio Equimpent was honored when legendary San Francisco based photographer Tom Zimberoff approached us to help him assemble a location package of grip equipment for an upcoming nationwide project of photographing the exotic world of CHOPPERS and the artists who create them. We outfitted Tom with a wide variety of Matthews products including four High Rollers which supported his basic lighting set up of a very large Chimera light bank. Tom loaded his trailer here in Burbank and began his odyssey which took almost one year on the road visiting many cities and CHOPPER creators. The resulting book THE...