FEROXED

Best Nature/Travel Film - European Cinematography Awards 2022
Best Underwater Cinematography - European Cinematography Awards 2022
Best Aerial Cinematography - European Cinematography Awards 2022
Best Feature Film Cinematography - New York Cinematography Awards 2021
Best Underwater Cinematography - New York Cinematography Awards 2021
Best Documentary Film Cinematography - New York Cinematography Awards 2021

We, Barbara and Russ van Aardt are based in Cape Town, South Africa and have spent the last 15 years filming Natural history subject matter in underwater and topside environments. Our primary focus is to make our Film Stock Library, short edits and productions available to the industry for sale. Our latest production “Naked Gills” is currently on the Film Festival circuit and has picked up 7 awards to date. We are hoping that this could be the pilot episode for a TV series.

We currently have a stock library of over 15 000 clips filmed with a 6K RED Dragon, RECODE RAW and 4K BlackMagic Production Camera Cinema DNG RAW, ranging from 10 to 180 seconds (20 second average). The general percentage split between 6K and 4K stock is 60/40 and the Topside to Underwater split is 30/70.

We are continuing to add new stock at an average rate of 2500 clips per year. We are also happy to accept requests relating to target subject matter for each upcoming destination. All our Stock is colour corrected in Davinci Resolve and shipped in ProRes 4:2:2 HQ or DNxHR HQX 12 bit in .mov. RAW footage available on request.

We have been most fortunate to travel to many exotic destinations and our film stock library consists of footage shot in South Africa, Maldives, Indonesia, Thailand, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar, Palau, Mozambique, Botswana, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, USA, Equador, Costa Rica, Dominica, Truk Lagoon(Chuuk), Red Sea, Ireland and more.