Aerial and ground-level footage in 4K — Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil
The second largest forest on the planet after the Congo Basin, the Amazon rainforest covers nearly 5.5 million km² across nine South American countries. It is home to approximately 10% of the world's biodiversity — one in five bird species on earth lives in its canopy, one in five freshwater fish species in its rivers. It is also one of the most threatened ecosystems on the planet, eroded each year by deforestation, intensive agriculture and deliberate burning.
Our Amazon collection brings together footage shot in three distinct locations, using complementary technical approaches — helicopter overflights, 4K drone, and ground-level camera — offering a unique representation of this ecosystem from its heights down to the heart of its canopy.
The Venezuelan forest, in the land of the tepuis — It is in southern Venezuela, in the region of the tepuis and Canaima National Park, that we built the core of our Amazon collection. The forest here is primary, intact, preserved by the extreme isolation of this border region with Brazil and Guyana. The aerial footage, shot in Arri Alexa / Cineflex 4K from a helicopter, reveals the canopy in all its immensity — an endless ocean of green, crossed by blackwater rivers and interrupted by the sheer vertical cliffs of the tepuis.
The forest at ground level — Alongside the aerial overflights, our collection includes sequences shot on the ground in primary rainforest, using a RED camera and cablecam systems rigged between the trees. These shots at understorey level — aerial roots, lianas, leaf-cutter ants, centuries-old trunks — offer an intimate counterpoint to the overflights and constitute in themselves a rare document on life inside the equatorial forest.
The Santa Cruz region, Bolivia — In eastern Bolivia, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, the Santa Cruz de la Sierra region presents a transitional landscape between the Chaco savanna and the humid tropical forest. Our aerial footage of this region documents both the beauty of the gallery forests lining the rivers and the advance of the agricultural frontier eating into them — a contrast particularly striking from the air.
Deforestation in Brazil — Our collection also includes footage of deforestation and wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon, shot by drone at close range along burning fronts — sequences of rare documentary value for productions focused on climate change and the environmental crisis.
