Ateles Films Services
Ateles Films offers different services such as specialist cameras, drones, macro as well as an extensive stock footage library and consulting services. Scroll down to see more information on each service.
Red Digital Cinema
Ateles Films has been filming on RED Cameras since they appeared on the market in 2008. Having been the first to shoot a wildlife film on RED in 2012 on Dutch TV and in Dutch cinema in 2013
Ateles Films uses Red cameras as their workhorse which offers a multitude of creative possibilities; combined with lenses we have owned for years, we can make smaller field packages to take in the field, reducing cost and burden of transporting equipment around the world.
Drones
Ateles Films has extensive experience using drones. Building and flying large drones to filming the current array of excellent RTF drones with 4k+ cameras in vast habitats such as jungles, mountains and deserts.
Drones add new perspectives to the filmmaking and story-telling process. It can go places we only dreamed of. The whole concept of lifting a camera into the sky requires minimal weight, meaning the CopterCam is a very light piece of kit and easy to transport around the world.
Macro
Through the use of custom made lenses Ateles Films makes unique macro footage of the natural world.
Ateles has developed a special "macro scope", which uses the lenses from the main set we use on the Red to create a large depth of field, bug's perspective of the world and themselves.
Tree Climbing
Ateles Films has extensive experience filming from the canopy. During shoots in the jungles of Guatemala and forests of Morocco unique perspectives were achieved that are impossible from the floor.
Whether climbing with a small crew or with a bigger team setups can be achieved with either a single camera or complex motion control systems with dollies, gimbals and other equipement
Stock Footage
Ateles Films has an extensive 8K library of stock footage that is available in various libraries. Footage ranging from natural history behaviour, cityscapes, moods, landscapes and much more. Also available in 4k and HD.
From Africa to Europe, Kenya to Georgia. A vast collection from the Netherlands and Portugal and in jungles, mountains, deserts covering species such as spider monkeys, red foxes, agamas, elephants in Africa and Asia. Ateles Films' library is truly diverse.
Post Production
Ateles Films edits their own productions meaning with every production the experience grows.
Experienced in delivering in 4k on multiple productions such as Return of the Spider Monkeys (2016), A Wild Fox Life (2019) and Hidden Nature of Holland (2021).
Consulting Service
Ateles Films provide consulting in the following areas:
- Cinematography
- Storytelling
- Animal behaviour
- National parks, filming locations, fixing and travelling
- Wildlife and Documentary Filmmaking
- Media Technology and Aerials
- Workshops and Master classes