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One of the worlds premier suppliers of Aerial Filming, Drones, Helicopters, Tracking Vehicles - worldwide. Supported by the best crew in the business.

The HFS Group are specialist in Aerial Filming & Aviation Services. Founded in 1993, Helicopter Film services has grown to include Helicopter, Jets, Drones and specialist high-speed camera tracking vehicles for work in Feature Film, Broadcast TV, Commercials and Branded Content production. HFS Aviation, the latest addition to the group, offers Aviation Management, Helicopter Charter and Leasing Services to the private and public sector.

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.

28/02/2025

Great to see our CEO, Jeremy Braben Assoc BSC, featured in Definition Magazine’s 'Aerial Filming Roundtable', where a panel of high-flying specialists gives the magazine their views from the top.

Read about the shift to using smaller cameras, which is enabling multi camera arrays to be used on drones. Disarm yourself of some common misconceptions about when to use a drone or a helicopter. Or hear our take on the art of communications management. Huge thanks to Definition Magazine for including our insights!

https://online.bright-publishing.com/view/1038449620/

23/01/2025

Congratulations to Wicked on the Academy Award nominations. Delighted to have provided all the helicopter and drone aerial filming for and

24/12/2024

A very Merry Christmas to you and yours from our team! We hope you enjoy the winter holidays, and have a flying start to 2025, whether you're up in the sky, or down on the ground.🎄🎇🚁

12/12/2024

🏆📺🎥 The Golden Globes nominations are out, and Slow Horses S3 has been nominated for 3 categories: 'Best Drama Television Series’, ‘Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series' - Gary Oldman’ and 'Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television' - Jack Lowden’! We loved working on this production, directed by Saul Metzstein and Adam Randall, featuring a star-studded cast, including the inimitable Kristin Scott Thomas. Good luck to Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden and also to the DoPs involved, whom our team is very proud to work. We've been capturing aerial sequences using drone and helicopter for several episodes.

If you haven’t watched Slow Horses yet, now’s the time! Don’t miss out.

Read more here: https://goldenglobes.com/articles/nominations-announced-for-82nd-annual-golden-globes/

10/12/2024

Great to be at FOCUS London 2024 today! Good to connect as ever with other professionals sharing insights into the future of aerial filming, film, high end TV and production generally. Brilliant to see advancements and innovations since our last visit to the show.

04/12/2024

Busy day on set today with 4 drones out flying!

23/11/2024

… And we did the helicopter and drone flying!
Wicked opens this weekend. Absolute pleasure working on this. Thank you

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