Tiger sharks are a long-running marine subject in Malaʻe Productions' Hawaii stock footage library, including the exclusive footage of tiger sharks feeding on a whale carcass off the Big Island that Hawaii News Now covered. The same archive supplied stock video to Discovery Channel's Sharks of the Fire Goddess and Sharkcano and to PBS Nature's Sharks of Hawaii, which we co-produced and shot as Directors of Photography.
What is in the library
The best-known sequence is the feeding frenzy: tiger sharks circling and feeding at a whale carcass off Hawaii's coast, a rare natural history event that earned national news coverage. A still from it, Feeding Frenzy, is in the photography portfolio. It sits in the archive alongside two decades of shark work in the volcanic waters of the Big Island — the subject of Sharks of the Fire Goddess — and the broader Hawaiian shark material behind Sharks of Hawaii and World's Most Dangerous Sharks.
Underwater sequences are shot on RED Digital Cinema cameras in Nauticam housings with ports, monitors and underwater lighting, and aerial coverage is flown under FAA Part 107 on the DJI Inspire fleet. Our own channel-crossing fishing boats are based at Keauhou Harbor on the Kona coast and at Kawaihae, with a Zodiac inflatable for the surf zone and a GoPro fleet for multi-angle coverage, so when a natural history event unfolds offshore the crew, cameras and marine platforms are already on the island. Whale shark encounters and other marine subjects share the same archive.
The library is described across this site as 4K and 8K, and the RED Digital Cinema systems we shoot on record in 8K. For any specific clip we confirm the resolution, frame rate and delivery format before quoting, rather than promising a specification a particular shot does not have.
Typical licensing uses
Broadcast natural history is the archive's home ground: Sharks of Hawaii, Sharks of the Fire Goddess, Sharkcano and World's Most Dangerous Sharks all drew on Malaʻe Productions' shark work. Documentary productions license behavior sequences — feeding, circling, approaches — that cannot be scheduled. Editorial and news outlets license rare-event footage, as Hawaii News Now did with the whale-carcass feeding frenzy. Commercial and brand films use tiger sharks where a campaign needs a real Hawaiian predator rather than a composite.
How licensing works
Licensing runs in four steps. First, an inquiry: send the tiger shark sequence you are after, the production it is for and how it will be used, through the form below or to sales@malaeproductions.com. Second, clip selection: we pull the candidate clips from the archive and send you a selection to review, with the resolution and format of each confirmed. Third, a quote: pricing follows the use — broadcast, documentary, commercial or editorial — along with territory, term and the number of clips, and we reply with availability and pricing, typically within one business day. Fourth, delivery: once the license is agreed, the selected clips are delivered at the resolution and format in the quote.
If the archive does not hold the behavior you need, we put a crew on the water: the boats, the Nauticam housings, the RED cameras and the Part 107 drones are based on the Big Island, so new tiger shark or other shark footage can be shot to order in Hawaiian waters.
Tiger sharks footage questions
Is the tiger shark feeding frenzy footage available to license?
Yes. Malaʻe Productions captured the footage of tiger sharks feeding on a whale carcass off Hawaii's coast, and it is part of the stock library. Tell us the use and we send a clip selection and quote.
Is the tiger shark footage underwater or aerial?
Both disciplines are in the archive: underwater sequences shot on RED cameras in Nauticam housings and aerial coverage flown under FAA Part 107. We confirm which clips are underwater, surface or aerial, and their resolution and format, during clip selection.
Can you film tiger sharks for our production instead?
Yes. Our boats are based at Keauhou Harbor and Kawaihae on the Big Island, and the underwater and aerial crews that shot Sharks of Hawaii and Sharks of the Fire Goddess are available for assignment work in Hawaiian waters. Send dates and the behavior you are after.
Do you have other shark species and marine wildlife?
Whale shark encounters, humpback whales from the air and other marine subjects are in the same library. Ask for the species or behavior you need and we check what exists.
Credits that drew on this subject
- Tiger Shark Feeding Frenzy (Hawaii News Now)
- Sharks of the Fire Goddess (Discovery Channel)
- Sharks of Hawaii (PBS Nature)
- Sharkcano (Discovery Channel)
- World's Most Dangerous Sharks (National Geographic)
More stock footage subjects
License tiger shark footage
Describe the behavior or sequence you need, the production and how it will be used. We reply with availability and pricing, typically within one business day.
Related
- All stock footage
- Big Island video production
- 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.
- 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.