CHRIS SCARFFE

CINEMATOGRAPHER, DIRECTOR, PHOTOGRAPHER & CONSERVATIONIST

ENVIRONMENTAL - NATURAL HISTORY - DIFFICULT ACCESS

AERIALS - TERRESTRIAL - UNDERWATER

Chris is an award winning, filmmaker, photographer and writer with over fifteen years of experience. Chris specialises in environmental and wildlife projects, often working in extreme or threatened environments where he embeds with remote communities or films rare species. He is unusual in that he is equally comfortable filming and photographing underwater, terrestrially or aerially.

Clients have included a wide range of broadcasters and non-profit organisations including the BBC, Terra Mater Studios, PBS, Vice On HBO, Viceland, Save Our Seas, WWF and Synchronicity Earth. Chris’ goal is to produce powerful and engaging imagery that creates environmental and behavioural change. 

 Notable projects have included: 

• Directing, co-producing and filming for the documentary Eyes of the Orangutan in partnership with Terra Mater Factual Studios. The producers of the critically acclaimed environmental documentaries Sea of Shadows and The Ivory Game. Filmed and produced over 4 years Chris and the crew went undercover to investigate the often murky world of the Wildlife Tourism industry in orangutans. The documentary has been nominated as a finalist at Wildscreen 2022 and at Jackson Wild 2022 for best Conservation Long Form documentary and aired on National Geographic.
• Filming aerials, underwater and terrestrially for BBC Earth's The Octopus In My House. The documentary went on to win - Best Animal Behavioural Film - Long Form at the Jackson Wild Film Festival. Nature film's equivalent of the Oscars.
• Filming for and working as a local producer for the Emmy winning series, Vice on HBO, where he gained the crew unique access to stories on illegal shark finning, blast fishing and industrial longliners: Countdown to Extinction.

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