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Tony Monk
Tony following Lexus for TVC
Blair Monk with Cineflex V14
Blair Monk on location at Lake Eyre
Murray Milne
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We are a group of world-class filming professionals, pre-eminent in most fields of aerial filming.
Over a filming history spanning 30 years we have developed much of our own filming equipment including helicopter mounts, filming belly mounts and the world’s first dedicated HD gyro-stabilized camera system.
We also own and operate one of the region’s largest aerial stock footage libraries.
Tony Monk, CEO Tony Monk Films and Heletranz NZ
Tony commenced a filming career involvement of 30 years as a helicopter pilot. Tony’s flying skills together with a rare ability to anticipate the film director made him the first choice for all major local and inbound aerial filming assignments.
Credits including:
- Lord of the Rings 1, 2 & 3
- Without a paddle
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Chronicles of Narnia
- Prince Caspian - Chronicles of Narnia
- King Kong
- The Piano
A full list of Tony's film pilot credits with over 1,500 projects is available on request.
Tony together with his partner and co-director, Julie owns and operates Heletranz ltd, Auckland’s leading helicopter company as well as offshoot, Tony Monk Films.
Tony Monk Films was created as an independent company to encompass all filming activity both in New Zealand and offshore.
Blair Monk - Aerial Cinematographer/DOP
Blair manages the local and international day to day filming operations as well as specializing in aerial cinematography with over a thousand hours of Cineflex experience under his belt.
Blair for the last few years has been working both here and overseas on a range of projects, recent credits including:
- IMG/Global Television - "Pope and World Youth Day 2008"
- BBC - "South Pacific"
- Discovery Channel
- Budweiser TVC
- Lexus TVC
- Kia Commercial
- Toyota TVC
- Fox Network "Woman Rule the World"
- The Devil Dared Me - Film
- Rain of the Children - Film
- Rogue - Film
- Nine Network - "Getaway"
- National Bank TVC
- Castrol Oil TVC
- BBC "Around the World in 80 Gardens"
- Channel 7 Australia
- Granada "I'm a Celebrity, Get me out of here"
- Make me a Supermodel - 2008 Australia
- Granada "Celebrity Love Island"
- Sky NZ - Live aerials of Rugby 2005-2008
- Live - Rally of NZ Aerials 2005-2007
- Panasonic - HD Showreel
- The Feelers - Music Video
- The Gift - TV Series, Australia
Murray Milne, Cinematographer
 Murray Milne is an experienced DP working from New Zealand for over 20 years, shooting film and video for features, commercials, TV series and documentaries for NZ and many overseas productions. He has combined a love of adventure sports with camera skills while skiing, skydiving, scuba diving and flying. A commercial pilots licence adds to his skill repertoire during helicopter aerials.
Murray has been shooting 35mm underwater for commercials around NZ, including under the ice; for TV series "Xena" and "Hercules" during their 5 years production in NZ; and video for TV series around the South Pacific Islands.
As a gyro camera operator for Tony Monk Films, Murray has experience with both Cinegyro HD and Cineflex camera systems on local and international filming assignments such as the two country Toyota IMV TVC shoot for Dentsu Japan.
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