Your Craft.
Our Infrastructure.

A managed creative execution network. IceQuake holds the client relationships, scopes the productions, sets the terms and assigns approved Network Partners to defined work. It does not replace your craft, your kit or your business; it puts scoping, coordination and logistics around them so you can take on productions your own baseline could not reach alone. It is not a marketplace and there is no browsing, bidding or pitching.

Photographers, videographers, second shooters, lighting technicians, drone operators, editors, producers, equipment and rental providers, and production companies, based in Texas. The application asks what you bring, where you operate, how you work and how fast you can move.

Three operational tiers describe the level of accountability you can be assigned: Field Operator (executes assigned tasks), Crew Lead (leads on the ground and reports to Operations) and Studio Partner (a production company or studio that can lead a full production). The application determines your tier from what you tell us; it is a description of responsibility, not of pay or membership benefits, and it can change as your track record with IceQuake grows.

Five short steps and a portfolio link, not a résumé. You verify your email, tell us your roles, experience, market, availability and equipment, and submit. Operations reviews the application and portfolio against the roles you applied for, then invites you to a short phone interview you schedule yourself; IceQuake calls you. Approved applicants receive the Network Partner Agreement to sign and join with verified standing.

IceQuake, for the whole project. You are assigned to a defined production with a written brief, and Operations stays the client’s single point of contact from scoping to delivery. If a client approaches you directly on set, you direct them back to IceQuake. Client relationships introduced through IceQuake stay with IceQuake during the agreement and for a year after your last booking.

IceQuake does, in writing, before any work starts. Each booking reaches you as a Booking Confirmation stating the scope, your role, date, location and your rate. You accept or decline each one; declining never affects future offers. You are never asked to quote, negotiate or sell to the client.

At the rate in your Booking Confirmation, once IceQuake has received the client’s cleared payment: within 14 business days of that for directly invoiced work, and after the platform releases funds for bookings that come through a third-party marketplace.

No and no. IceQuake is under no obligation to offer bookings and you may decline any booking for any reason without penalty. You remain free to work for anyone else, including IceQuake’s competitors, as long as it does not clash with a booking you have accepted.

No. Network Partners are independent contractors: you control how you do the work, you provide your own professional equipment, you handle your own taxes, and you are not covered by IceQuake’s employee benefits or workers’ compensation. IceQuake defines the deliverables and the criteria; you decide the method.

Crew on an IceQuake production are IceQuake Network Partners, assigned by Operations. As a Crew Lead or Studio Partner you lead the production on the ground and coordinate them. People you already work with join the same way you do: apply, be reviewed, sign the Network Partner Agreement. You bring your own professional kit; specialised rentals are arranged when a production needs them.

Work produced on an IceQuake booking is work made for hire: the rights in raw footage, edits and assets belong to IceQuake and pass to the client. You keep full ownership of anything you created before or outside IceQuake work; where your pre-existing material ends up inside a deliverable, IceQuake gets a licence to use it as part of that work.

Yes, within limits: finished elements only, on your own non-commercial portfolio or website, once the client has paid in full and released the project publicly, and provided the client’s contract allows it. IceQuake can ask you to take something down, and you remove it when asked.

Operations has reviewed your application, portfolio and interview and confirmed the capabilities you are eligible to be assigned for. Assignment is by verified capability, market and availability, confirmed by a person every time. Standing is earned in review, not requested, and it is what the client is paying for.

An optional paid subscription for approved partners, billed through Stripe and managed from your partner portal. It is never a condition of joining the network or of receiving bookings; it adds priority consideration in matching and a visible verified standing. Fees are non-refundable once charged, and cancelling ends the membership benefits without touching your partner agreement or any confirmed booking.

Yes. Approved partners can refer other professionals, clients, and larger organisations, and the person you refer names you on their form. Rewards are fixed-value and one-time or fixed-term, never a lifetime commission, and they are paid only after the referred booking is fully paid and past its dispute window. Larger referrals are handled case by case.

Follow IceQuake’s written production procedures for capture, asset management and backup; communicate with the client only through IceQuake’s channels; arrive on time; and wear clean, unbranded, dark professional attire suitable for crew work. You represent IceQuake on set, not yourself.

Everything non-public you learn through IceQuake: client identities, unreleased footage, scripts, pricing and set locations. The obligation has no end date and survives leaving the network.

Production work is physical and the agreement is direct about it: you assume the risks of the set, and you are responsible for your own liability and equipment insurance, taxes and licences. Read Section 6 of the Network Partner Agreement carefully before signing; it is the section that shifts the most.

Tell Operations immediately, by phone, so a replacement can be assigned before call time. Reliability on accepted bookings is part of your record with IceQuake and shapes future assignment; Operations may stop offering bookings to a partner who does not show.

Yes, at any time, with written notice, and IceQuake may end the relationship the same way. Leaving stops future bookings but does not cancel bookings already confirmed unless both sides agree. The confidentiality, non-solicitation, intellectual property and liability terms continue to apply afterwards.

You sign in with a one-time link sent to your email; there is no password. The account is personal and must not be shared. From the portal you see your projects, accept and start assigned work, upload deliverables, manage membership, and sign out.