Okavango Filming
Taking Botswana one frame at a time
Okavango Filming is a Botswana majority citizen owned company, we facilitate film crew support and logistics. We are passionate about promoting Botswana and its neighbors, we have built a strong network of contacts enabling us to handle all fixing, gear importation, transport, accommodation,guiding,location scouting,research etc.
The vast semi-desert of the Kalahari covers approximately 85% of Botswana, it’s biodiversity remains more intact than in any other African country. Approximately 38% of Botswana is either National Park, reserve or wildlife management areas.
The government’s policy of low volume high cost tourism has been successful. The policy limits the number of visitors but in turn charges high prices for the privilege of intimacy. Botswana is a peaceful country and well governed, its abundance of wildlife and vast open spaces has made it the ideal location for wildlife filmmakers. Filmmakers from around the world have taken stunning footage, which has been broadcast throughout the world,
On the 22ndof June 2014 Botswana’s Okavango Delta one of the most iconic natural areas on the planet, was listed as the 1,000th world Heritage site. The Delta sustains the population of some of the most threatened large mammals such as cheetah, the white and black rhino, the wild dog and the lion. It harbours 24 species of globally threatened birds and is key to the survival of Botswana’s 130 thousand elephants - the largest population of the species in the world.