Local Fixer Services

Fixing in China is a relationship business. Guanxi is the long-standing network of give-and-take ties that opens doors and clears forms, and it is what sets a working fixer apart from a directory listing. Our Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong fixers have spent careers serving the global shoots that route through China. That work spans Discovery and National Geographic documentary units, BBC and History Channel features, Netflix and Disney+ specials, Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime series, and the major studio runs that have shot here over the past two decades.

That list includes Mission: Impossible units, Bond locations, Marvel China shoots, and corporate work for the Western brands that fly in for Chinese New Year campaigns. Our fixers bridge Mandarin, Cantonese and English on the same shooting day. They hold direct ties at NRTA (the National Radio and Television Administration), CFCC (the China Film Co-Production Corporation), the Cultural Relics Bureau for heritage sites, CAAC for drone permits, and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio and TV, Shanghai Film Bureau and provincial film bureaus that issue location permits. Z-visa and M-visa planning through the National Immigration Administration, ATA Carnet and short-term import permits for camera packages, and the Chinese co-production partner deals that foreign shoots need all run through them.

Day to day, the fixer carries the regulatory load so the production can stay on the page. Our fixers prepare the script submission and production-plan dossier that NRTA reviews. They set up the CFCC co-production permit through its four to twelve week certification window, route Public Security Bureau planning for road work and crowd scenes, and handle the sensitive-area forms for Tibet, Xinjiang and military-adjacent zones where extra approvals apply.

On the ground, the work gets more specific. They book studio space at Hengdian World Studios, Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis and the Wanda Qingdao stages, and source Mandarin-speaking crew. They also handle cross-border data and SAFE foreign-exchange forms under the Cybersecurity Law, Data Security Law and 2021 PIPL framework that govern footage moving in and out of the country. On set, our fixers stand between the production and the local film bureau monitor.

A few details matter here. When something breaks — a permit recheck, an air-quality red alert in Beijing, a sudden Cultural Relics Bureau time-slot shift at the Great Wall, or a Golden Week or Chinese New Year shutdown clashing with the schedule — our fixers solve it in Mandarin inside the same shooting day.