The Osprey Filming Company
The Osprey Filming Company, based in Hilton South Africa, has operated for the past 33 years. The company specializes in producing wildlife documentaries and personalized hunting videos worldwide.
In the past we have filmed polar bear hunts in the Arctic, Marco polo sheep hunts in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, blue sheep and golden Tarkin hunts in China, Ibex in Sudan, we are regularly in Cameroon and the CAR filming bongo, forest elephant and Lord Derby eland hunts. We spend much time in Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique.
We have also filmed hunting expeditions in Spain, Romania, Pakistan, Macedonia, Argentina, Alaska, Australia, New Zealand, Mongolia, Turkey, Nepal the USA and New Caledonia.
All of our cameramen are well-schooled in the art of hunting and in no way do they interfere with the hunt, in fact, they become part of the team.
Our safari filming daily rate is U.S. $350 and a flat fee of $2000 for editing. This package includes the day-to-day filming of the hunt, an edited copy of the raw footage with original music and voices over, and copies of the raw footage.
All footage is shot on digital 4K cameras ensuring the highest possible quality. We have five editing suites that are computer-based Apple Mac with cutting-edge video editing software. The final edited copy is mastered to broadcast quality Blu-ray format.
Besides filming hunting safaris we are passionate conservationists and work alongside the Hunter Proud Foundation, Conservation Force, the SCI Foundation and the Conservation Imperative.
Our most recent initiative Patrol: Anti-Poaching in Action and has been established in conjunction with the SCI foundation to feature the anti-poaching work of safari operations across Africa through written articles, photography and mini-documentaries in a monthly report.
Poaching in Africa takes many forms, subsistence and commercial meat, succulents, timber, pangolin scales, ivory and rhino horn, and various tactics are required to fight back.
Patrol intends not to glamorize anti-poaching work but instead to show the “behind the scenes” grind in this relentless battle.
Revealing the unheralded work of these operations is imperative to highlight their significant contribution to conservation in Africa.
Please visit these websites to see some of the work that we do with these organizations.