Christiaan Munoz Salas

Christiaan Muñoz Salas is a professional cinematographer, filmmaker and photographer based in Araucania Region in the south of Chile, graduated and specialized in long and short fiction films, documentaries, and observation films. He has been involved in natural history filmmaking since his earlier days, following the steps of his father, working closely with him in many productions, leading him to love and learn from nature and its behavior through a camera, which has now become his full-time job for the last ten years. As well as storytelling, he also has an extensive knowledge on film equipment and technology, which includes the latest Ultra-HD and High Speed cameras, film cameras, motion controlled systems, gimbals, lighting systems and many others. Recently learned to operate Cineflex GSS and Shotover systems. His work has been featured in a variety of films around the globe, which more recently includes Netflix's "Great National Parks", to be streamed by the end of 2021 and CNN's "Patagonia" series to be aired also by the end of 2021. Past works include Chilean television channel Chilevision wildlife series "Wild Chile"; Animal Planet/Discovery Channel's "Wild Expectations" which holds the Emerging Talent award in the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival 2017; BBC's mini landmark series "Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise"; "Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur" which holds the Special Jury Award price at Wildscreen 2016 and BBC's Planet Earth II which holds BAFTA as well as Prime Time Emmy Awards in 2017.