Chris Tangey is a Cinematographer, specializing in drone. His short films will help represent Australia in 2025 at World Expo Osaka, Japan. Nine of his works will show daily on the big screen in the Australia Pavilion over 180 days starting April 13. His imagery features in many permanent exhibitions including the new 6K cinematic film at the entrance to the Australian War Memorial Canberra, the National Museum of Australia, the National Science Museum of Canada, Ottawa and the La Nube Children's Museum in El Paso Texas. He licenses his 4K stock footage worldwide including to BBC Natural History Unit, Warner Bros, Universal Pictures, Paramount, Studiocanal and Stan productions. He is also a Location Manager and Scout and the NT board member for the Australian Location Managers Guild. He has won the Judges Award plus 10 gold and 5 silver awards from the Australian Cinematographers Society and 32 international awards for aerial cinematography including wins in LA and from 3 different New York City festivals.

Aerial projects include: BBC's blue-chip nature series "Wonders of the Monsoon", "7 Worlds-One Planet","Mammals" and soon, "Hidden Planet"•The Universal Pictures feature film "Lee Kernaghan-Boy from the bush"• the Stan feature documentary "the Cape"• Visual material for the new Paramount Plus comedy series "Betoota Advocate" • and an upcoming major series for SBS "The Idea of Australia". He also supplied his aerial skills to the Season 24 2-part finale of the "The Bachelor" (U.S. 2020) for Warner Bros, "Nomad-in the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin" under the direction of film legend Werner Herzog, a global TVC for Tourism Australia "Dundee" under Academy award-winning DOP Russell Boyd ASC, ACS, and all of the Australia footage for Nathaniel Rateliff's music video "Time Stands". Chris continues to license his footage to national and global clients in film, broadcasting and advertising. Dual Finalist 55th ACS National Awards for Cinematography Melbourne May 2025

AWARDS:
Winner 10 gold and 5 silver awards Australian Cinematographers Society
plus Judges Award 2024 in the NT ACS Awards.

Winner "Landscape" AZDroneFest Phoenix 2025
Winner "Drone” 15th annual New Media Film Festival Los Angeles 2024
Winner "Drone” 25th annual Moondance International Film Festival Boulder 2024
Winner "Best Drone film" Voce Spettacolo Film Festival Italy 2024
Winner Bistrita Romania International Film Festival 2024
Winner "Landscape” Detroit Drone Film Festival 2023
Winner "Narrative documentary” AZDroneFest Phoenix 2023
Winner-"Best Drone Film" Barcelona Planet Film Festival 2023
Winner "Best Cinematography-short" Buenos Aires International Film Festival 2022
Winner "Best Cinematography" Tokyo Film Awards 2022
Winner "The American Drone Award" 8th annual American Film Award New York 2021
Winner “Landscape” Jeju International Drone Film Festival South Korea 2021
Winner "Landscape” AZDroneFest Phoenix 2021
Winner "Best Cinematography-short film" Seattle Film Festival 2020
Winner "Best Cinematography" Austria International Film Festival Vienna 2020
Winner "Best Cinematography" Buenos Aires International Film Festival 2020
Winner "Best Drone film" Voce Spettacolo Film Festival Italy 2021
Winner "Best film on nature" Kalakari Film Festival India 2021
Winner inaugural "Best drone film" category 10th annual Paris Art and Movie Awards (PAMA) 2020.
Winner May 2020 "Best Drone film" and "Best Natural Scenography" New York International Film Awards.
Winner "Best Aerial Cinematography" European Cinematography Awards Amsterdam,
Winner "Best Drone film" Orinos® Film Awards New York 2020.
Winner "Best Aerial Cinematography" and "Best cinematography of a documentary short film" Asian Cinematography Awards Manila 2020.

OFFICIAL SELECTION/FINALIST:

Finalist Ealing Film Festival 2024
Finalist Dili International Film Festival Timor Leste 2024
Nominee Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology 2024
Nominee Thunderbird Drone Film Festival Tulsa 2024
Nominee Seattle Film Festival 2024
Official Selection Oxford Shorts 2024
Official Selection Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival 2024
Nominee New Media Film Festival Los Angeles 2023
Dual Nominee Siena Awards Italy 2023
Dual Nominee Siena Awards Italy 2022
Official Selection Southern California Drone Film Festival 2022
Nominee 11th annual Paris Art and Movie Awards (PAMA) 2021
Nominee New Media Film Festival Los Angeles 2021
Finalist Boston drone Film Festival 2021
Official Selection Bucharest Film Awards 2021
Official Selection Blue2Blue Drone Film Festival 2021
Official Selection NO AR Drone Fest Brazil 2020
Official Selection Prague Independent Film Festival 2020
Official Selection 180 Berlin FilmFest 2020