Malaʻe Productions has filmed Hawaii's natural world for broadcast since 2003 — as Directors of Photography and cinematographers on PBS Nature's Sharks of Hawaii, National Geographic's Wild Hawaii: Secrets of the Deep and Wild Hawaii: Land of Fire, and Discovery Channel's Sharkcano and Sharks of the Fire Goddess.
Our cinema work covers the disciplines a Hawaii production tends to need all at once: aerial with the DJI Inspire 3 and Inspire 2 fleet, natural history and wildlife sequences, time lapse of landscapes, night skies and weather, underwater cinematography in Nauticam housings with RED cameras, macro for insects and marine life, motion control for repeatable moves, in-water surf cinematography in Salty housings, gyro-stabilized Shotover F1 work from vehicle and boat, and a Shotover production truck for mobile shoots.
Because we own every camera, housing, drone, vehicle and boat we use, a shoot on the Big Island, Oahu, Maui or Kauai runs without outside gear support. That matters on active lava fields, remote coastlines and open ocean, where the moment does not wait for a rental to arrive.
We shoot in 8K on RED Digital Cinema systems and maintain one of the largest private 4K and 8K Hawaii stock footage libraries in existence — scenic, landscape, flora, fauna, surf, volcanic and marine subjects — so the sequence you need may already exist.
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- Natural History Video Production
- Aerial Services — FAA Part 107 licensed aerial cinematography, thermal survey and location scouting across the Big Island and all Hawaiian Islands.
- Equipment & Production — Broadcast-grade production equipment based on the Big Island of Hawaii and available statewide, operated by crews who know the islands.
- Equipment Rentals — Rent RED cinema cameras, Shotover gimbals, DJI drones, Nauticam underwater housings and full production packages on the Big Island, with delivery statewide and a price match guarantee.
- Photography — Editorial, commercial and documentary photography of Hawaii's landscapes, wildlife and underwater world, from the summit of Mauna Kea to the open Pacific.