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MAX HUG WILLIAMS
LIGHTING CAMERAMAN


CONTACT
hugwilliams@yahoo.com
www.maxhugwilliams.com


CREDITS: FEATURES / FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT / DOCUMENTARY

2023

Home, Disney/Nat Geo

Asia, BBC1

2022

Big Beasts - Gorilla (Gorilla/Eles, CAR)

Life in Sound, Netflix

Asia, BBC1

2021

Leakey Feature Doc

Life in colour Ep3 (Tiger vision) Netflix

2020

Life in Colour – (Cuckoo, Zambia) BBC1

In the womb (Elephant, Kenya) Disney/Nat Geo

OceanX (Norway)

Leakey Feature Doc

2019

Life in Colour – (Augrabie's Lizards, SA) BBC1

In the womb (Elephant, Kenya) Disney/Nat Geo

Gorilla Feature Doc

2018

Seven Worlds – (Pangolin/Aardvark, SA) BBC1

Wild metropolis (Capuchins Costa Rica, Manatee Florida) BBC2

2017

Wild metropolis (Herons, Amsterdam) – BBC2

Seven Worlds – (Elephants, Zimbabwe) BBC1

Seven Worlds – (Orangutans, Borneo) BBC1

Animals with cameras (Brazil) – BBC1

Disney Nature – Penguins, Antarctica (Theatrical release)

2016

Earth 2 Movie - One Perfect Day, China(Theatrical release)

Planet Earth 2 - Islands (Sloths, Panama) - BBC1

Nature's Epic Journeys (Zebra, Botswana) - BBC1


2015

Nature's Epic Journeys (Elephants, Kenya) - BBC1

Nature's Epic Journeys (Caribou, Alaska, Yukon) - BBC1

The Big Fish (Iceland) - BBC2

Planet Earth 2 - Islands (penguins Zavadovski) - BBC1


2014

Snow Wolf Family & Me (Ellesmere Island- BBC2

This Wild Life (10 x 30) Kenya - BBC2

Natures Miracle Orphans -(Costa Rica) BBC1


2013

Natures Miracle Orphans - BBC1

Photographing Africa - BBC4 (BAFTA Nomination Cinematography 2015)
A Great British Year (Spring/Summer) - BBC1

Operation Snow Tiger (Russia)- BBC2 (Wildscreen Nomination 2014)


2012

Operation Snow Tiger – BBC 2

Orange/EE – Commercial: ‘Fenton Re-Mastered’ (For Passion Pictures)

A Great British Year (Autumn) – BBC 1

Genius of Nature – BBC 1 (Best Presenter led series Jackson Hole 2013)

Planet Earth Live: Bears – BBC 1

The Dark (Peru)– BBC 2


2011

Planet Earth Live: Lions Kenya – BBC 1

Panorama: Ivory Wars (Kenya) – BBC 1/Discovery US

Wild Arabia - BBC2 (EMMY Nomination Cinematography 2014)

The One Show - BBC1

Wild Britannia - BBC2

Expedition Wolf (USA) - BBC1

Africa: Forests (Gabon) - BBC1 (Winner - Best Series, Jackson Hole 2013, BAFTA Nomination Cinematography 2014)


2010

George’s Marvelous Mini-beasts - BBC ONLINE

Bear Family & Me, with Gordon Buchanan (USA) - BBC2

Frozen Planet (Arctic)- BBC1

Lost Land of the Tiger: (Bhutan) - BBC1

Human Planet: Rivers (India) - BBC1 (Emmy Best Cinematography, camera team. 2012)


2009

Spring Watch Christmas special - BBC2

Autumn Watch - BBC2

Greatest Cities of the World: Rome (2nd Unit Camera) - ITV

Greatest Cities of the World: Hong Kong (2nd Unit Camera) - ITV

Natural World: Black Mamba - BBC2


2008 + previous

Natural World: Manta Queen BBC2

Conquest of Everest – The Wildest Dream (2nd Unit Camera) - ATLANTIC Theatrical Release

Extraordinary Animals - Channel 5/Animal Planet

SAS (2nd Unit Camera) - Channel 5

Natural World: Titus – BBC 2

Saving Planet Earth (2nd Unit Camera) - BBC 1

RSPCA – Channel 5/Animal Planet CAMERA OPERATOR

Going Ape – Channel 4/Animal Planet

Natural World: Orangutans - From Orphan to King – BBC 2

Natural World: Lost Crocodiles of the Pharaohs - BBC 2

TRAINING COURSES

• BBC NHU Training Bursary – selected for the first of the new 2-year in house camera training schemes (09-11)
• Scuba Diving – HSE4 Commercial Diver, Current dive medical (2011)
• Steadicam – 3 day Steadicam training Course (2010) Climbing – IRATA Level 1, Cable Dolly rigging experience.
• 5 day Hostile Environment course (Jan 2010) HSE First Aid at Work (Nov 2010)
• Sea Survival & Zodiac Training (2010) LANTRA 4 X 4 Off road driving (2010)
• HD for Natural History – 3 day BBC Training & Development course focusing on the Varicam & Sony 750 (2008)
• Camera Assistant with DOP Chris Openshaw (2006-2008)
• High Definition Acquisition & Production – 3 day course with Films @59 (2004).
• Wildscreen Wildlife Film Festival & Workshops 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 & 2010
• Skiing ¬– Extensive experience filming on skis and working in mountain environment.
• College African Wildlife Management, Tanzania (2001) Durrell Conservation Trust Summer School (1999)
• Jeffery Boswall’s Wildlife Programme-Making 3 Week Course – (2000)

EDUCATION
MSc Behavioural Ecology
BSc (Hons) Zoology