Essential Crew (EC) has solidified its place as the leading expert for crew in Queensland’s Screen Industry. As a crew booking agency, we provide Companies, Producers, Productions, Heads of Department, Agencies, Brands, Studios and Post Production Companies with the most effective, professional solution to finding available and experienced crew. Currently representing almost 300 freelance crew, Essential Crew aims to constantly evolve to meet the needs and expectations of Australia’s expanding Screen Industry. EC’s focus is on continuing to assist crew to secure work and achieve their career goals, ensuring productions filming in Australia always have access to experienced and enthusiastic crew. Essential Crew Training Courses and Emerging Crew Program launched in 2014 and 2015 with the aim to educate and nurture the emerging sector, arming new filmmakers and emerging crew with the vital information, real world view and ‘know how’ they need to begin and maintain careers. This service is now known as Essential Screen Skills.

Essential Screen Skills (ESS) is the training arm of Essential Crew. This has expanded to providing workshops, courses, masterclasses, panels, professional development, work experiences and connections to Industry. ESS combines screen industry and professional knowledge with educational experience to create specifically designed programs and initiatives to improve the workforce capabilities of the screen industry. ESS has a strong focus on nurturing new people into the industry whether that be school leavers, university graduates, people transitioning from other industries and those returning to the industry after a break.

Essential Screen Skills delivers the Screen and Media project under the Gateway to Industry Schools program, which is proudly supported and funded by the Queensland Government.

In 2022 Essential Crew was awarded Queensland Screen Business of the Year at Gold Coast Film Festival.