Marine & Wildlife Filming

Here is how this works in practice. We give aquatic and wildlife filming services for shoots working in the Czech Republic, supplying pro camera ops, underwater housings, long-lens packages and the field crews that natural-history work needs. Because the country is landlocked, marine-style filming here is freshwater work: the Vltava and Elbe rivers, the South Bohemian fishpond network — one of Europe's oldest managed aquaculture landscapes — and the Lipno and Orlík reservoirs all support fish, birds and aquatic life.

Here is the short of it. Our crews are skilled in the patient, weather-dependent rhythm of wildlife filming, and we plan shoots around animal behaviour, light and the access conditions each habitat presents. We set up underwater and above-water camera work as a single unit so a sequence cuts together cleanly.

Here is the breakdown. Wildlife filming in the Czech Republic also reaches the country's covered landscapes. Bohemian Switzerland National Park, the Krkonoše Giant Mountains, the Moravian Karst and the wetlands of the South Bohemian fishpond region. Filming in national parks and covered areas needs permits and conditions agreed with the park authorities and site-level bodies. Our teams manage that process and work within the constraints designed to protect habitats and species. The Central-European land-based climate, with its four distinct seasons, shapes the wildlife calendar, and we schedule shoots to match breeding, migration and seasonal behaviour. Productions drawn here by the Czech Film Fund's 20% cash rebates, administered by the Státní fond kinematografie, gain crews familiar with both the rules and the freshwater ecosystems. We budget the work in Czech koruna with 21% VAT.