Helicopter Film Services Ltd - Aerial Filming

12/11/2025

Catch me if you can - aerial filming helicopter ballet…

05/11/2025

Au revoir Tahiti!
An amazing project and incredible location. Awesome teams from and

10/10/2025

🍿🚁 The Opening Night of the 69th Annual BFI London Film Festival kicked off with the thrilling new Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Our team is proud to have contributed aerial cinematography for this third instalment. Congrats to DoP, Steve Yedlin and to Writer & Director Rian Johnson on this cinematic treat which will reach select cinemas on 25 November, streaming on Netflix 12 December.

05/10/2025

https://youtu.be/_wpw2QHJNco

A House of Dynamite, coming soon to the cinema and Netflix. Our team proud to involved with the aerial filming
Director:
DOP: BSC
Aerial DOP: Jeremy Braben
Aerial Tech: Sam thurston
Heli Pilot: Jon Bjornsson
Truenorth SHOTOVER shot on ARRI

From Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow comes A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE. When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race b...

16/09/2025

Huge congratulations to all the 2025 Emmy winners and nominees! Sunday night's 77th Primetime Emmy Awards celebrated some incredible talent🥂

We're especially proud of Adam Randall, who took home the Emmy for ‘Outstanding Director for a Drama Series’ for his brilliant work on Slow Horses—a series that features helicopter and drone sequences captured by our team.

It's an honour to have collaborated on this project, and we look forward to our continued work and future collaboration! 🎬

31/08/2025

End of August, end of summer! All wrapped up waiting for better weather to continue our filming

24/08/2025

*🎬 Futures in Film × Pinewood Studios Film Careers, Faith & Inclusion Sat 30 Aug 2025 • 12:00–17:00 • John Barry Theatre*

Join us for screenings, live demos and straight-talk on real routes into film & high-end TV plus faith/values-driven storytelling and best-practice, faith-aware inclusion on set and at the studios.

▶️ Watch the overview: https://shorturl.at/O5Gu5

✅ Register now (limited places): https://shorturl.at/tQbCl

Who’s it for: creatives, technicians, AI, virtual-production enthusiasts, students (14+), educators, industry professionals, youth & faith/community leaders.

Coming soon: limited internships, scholarships, mentoring and technical workshops at Pinewood Studios.

We’re opening doors to training, mentoring, industry experience and purposeful filmmaking-growing the community’s capacity to tell authentic stories.

Join us at the John Barry Theatre, Pinewood Studios for screenings, live demos and straight-talk on careers across film, TV and the wider creative industries - plus open conversations on values-led storytelling and faith-aware inclusion. We’ll also outline limited fully-funded placements, mentorin...

22/07/2025

🎥🐉🚁 Many thanks to Zoe Mutter and the illustrious team at British Cinematographer for letting us re-live the task of 'Chasing The Dragon' while working with DoP, Bill Pope ASC and VFX supervisor, Christian Manz (Framestore) on the live action, How To Train Your Dragon (out June).

As Manz mentions, Jeremy Braben and our team were recommended, having worked together on Fantastic Beasts. Manz says, "Ultimately, we wanted people in the cinema to feel like we'd felt when zooming along in a heli - you're in a tight canyon, then the world opens up and everything is stretched below you."

10/06/2025

🧙‍♀️✨ The official trailer for 'Wicked: For Good' is finally here!

The choice to split Wicked into two films came down to doing justice to the story’s Broadway roots. 🎭 Composer Stephen Schwartz said it best: 'Defying Gravity' is such a show-stopping Act 1 closer, it just made sense to end Part One there. Trying to cram it all into one movie would’ve meant losing some truly iconic songs and character moments.

🎬 Part Two lands in cinemas 21st November 2025, picking up where the magic left off and giving Oz the space it deserves.

Directed by Jon M. Chu, this screen adaptation features helicopter and drone aerial sequences captured by our talented team. 🚁 📹

Counting down to release day this November!
🎥 Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/vt98AlBDI9Y?si=N8C4HvccoZYxmMrS

DoP Alice Brooks | Credits: Universal Pictures

09/05/2025

🚁📹 We’re getting closer to the premiere of the new live-action How to Train Your Dragon, soaring into cinemas on June 13, 2025.

From sweeping helicopter shots to dynamic drone footage, our team is proud to have provided the aerial cinematography for this epic reimagining of the beloved animated film - helping bring the world of Vikings and dragons to life like never before.

Directed by Dean Deblois, with cinematography by Bill Pope and visual effects by Framestore (supervised by Christian Manz), the film stars Mason Thames as Hiccup, Nico Parker as Astrid, and GerardButler reprising his role as Stoick the Vast. 🐉

Thank you, again, to everyone on our team, including:
Aerial DOP Jeremy Braben | Drone Pilots, Henry Bridges, Henry Symons-Jones | Aerial Camera Assistant, Sam Thurston | Helicopter Pilot, Jon Bjornsson | locations, Emma Pils

Creds to: Universal Pictures

04/03/2025

We recently had the pleasure of working with two formidable female cinematographers, both of whom received well-deserved nominations at the 39th ASC Awards.

Huge congratulations to Catherine Goldschmidt for her ASC nomination for House of the Dragon- Season 2, Episode 8: ’The Queen Who Ever Was.’ Goldschmit’s striking cinematography successfully brought the world of Westeros to life in an epic season finale.

Another huge congratulations to Alice Brooks, nominated in the Theatrical Feature Film category for her work on Wicked. Brooks created a breathtaking vision for Oz using sets instead of bluescreeens, even planting a staggering nine million tulips to bring this magical world to life- setting the stage for what she calls ‘the most beautiful love story ever.’

We are thrilled to celebrate these two wonderful women.

03/03/2025

Huge congratulations to all 2025 Oscar winners and nominees! Last night’s 97th Academy Awards celebrated some incredible talent, with Anora winning Best Picture and Lol Crawley taking Best Cinematography for The Brutalist.

We're especially proud that Wicked, which features helicopter and drone sequences captured by our team, received 10 nominations and won Best Production Design and Best Costume Design! A fantastic night for cinema.