ABOUT MATT

ABOUT MATT AEBERHARD

director & director of photography

Emmy-nominated Matt Aeberhard is one of the world’s leading wildlife cinematographers as well as a

life-long, passionate birder

His recent work includes Netflix’s Dancing with the Birds and Our Planet. He is also the director and director of photography of the critically acclaimed DisneyNature epic Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos.


Through Birds of America: How Birds Save Us, he seeks not only to produce stunning imagery that inspires viewers to love birds and seek their protection, but to create a visual - and visceral - record of America’s birds before they further diminish or go extinct.

"To me there are no scenes in wildlife filming as uplifting as those of birds in flight – they are forms of perfection independent of us, they are more than us, grander, more beautiful, stronger. Each bird has a profoundly individual experience of its own life, and that life is much more than mere instinct. Whether I’m watching a flock of Sandhill Cranes on the Platte River or a Wood Thrush in the forest cover, I’m both humbled and awed.

I believe that as a filmmaker I can help audiences feel this way, and if they can connect to the birds, they will act for their preservation - not for our own selfish delight in them - but because we understand their right to prevail upon this earth."

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