Andrew Penniket

Andrew Penniket is an award-winning  underwater cameraman and documentary maker whose career has spanned four decades. Since starting with TVNZ’s Natural History Unit in Dunedin, his work has featured in acclaimed international productions for many broadcasters, including BBC, National Geographic, NHNZ and Discovery Channel. Trained as a biologist, Andrew has combined extensive knowledge of marine life with an artist’s eye, developing a reputation for capturing intimate, behaviour-driven sequences that reveal both the beauty and mystery of underwater life, from the midnight rambles of lobsters to the cooperative hunting of orca tribes. His images and films have been widely used to support marine protected areas, and he is a staunch advocate for increased conservation in the sea.

Peter Thompson

Peter Thompson has built a  lifelong career in film and television camera work, becoming a full-time aerial cinematographer in 1999 and a full-time owner-operator of gyro-stabilised aerial camera systems in 2005.

With over 14,000 hours of helicopter aerial filming, Peter has worked in more than 70 countries worldwide, across virtually every environment a production can encounter.

Peter combines creative vision with deep technical knowledge and an engineering-level understanding of gyro-stabilised aerial camera systems, including Cineflex and Shotover platforms.

He has contributed to the development of two of the world’s leading aerial camera systems — Cineflex and Shotover — and was a co-founder of Shotover Camera Systems in Queenstown, New Zealand, in 2007.