Role: Director of Photography, Cinematography & Stock Video
Served as Director of Photography and contributed cinematography and stock video for this deep-dive exploration of Hawaii's most remote underwater ecosystems.
What Malaʻe Productions contributed
Malaʻe Productions served as Director of Photography on Wild Hawaii: Secrets of the Deep and contributed cinematography and stock video to this National Geographic / PBS exploration of Hawaii's most remote underwater ecosystems.
Underwater cinematography is one of our core disciplines. We shoot RED Digital Cinema cameras in Nauticam housings for RED DSMC2 and DSMC3, with ports, monitors and underwater lighting, and reach open ocean and reef locations from our own channel-crossing fishing boats based at Keauhou Harbor on the Kona coast and at Kawaihae. Macro work for marine life and a GoPro fleet for multi-angle coverage round out the marine kit.
The stock video contribution comes from one of the largest private collections of 4K and 8K Hawaii footage in existence — marine, fauna, scenic, volcanic and surf subjects gathered over two decades in the field. Humpback whales, whale sharks and tiger sharks are among the archive's marine subjects, so a sequence a production needs may already exist.
For documentary and broadcast work in Hawaiian waters we provide Directors of Photography, underwater and aerial crews and the full equipment package from our Big Island base, with crews and rentals available on every island.
- Director of Photography
- Cinematography
- Stock Video
More credits
- Sharks of Hawaii (PBS Nature)
- Wild Hawaii: Land of Fire (National Geographic / PBS)
- Sharks of the Fire Goddess (Discovery Channel)
- Sharkcano (Discovery Channel)
- America's National Parks (PBS / IMAX)
- Deadliest Catch: Bloodline (Discovery Channel)
- World's Most Dangerous Sharks (National Geographic)
- Tiger Shark Feeding Frenzy (Hawaii News Now)
Related
- Cinema — 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.
- Big Island video production
- 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.
- Contact — Tell us about your production, rental or stock footage needs anywhere in Hawaii. We reply with availability and pricing, typically within one business day.