Congratulations to AirVuz 2024 Drone Video of the Year Finalists!

AirVuz loves to celebrate our community's talent through our Drone Video Contests, with the ultimate honor going to our Drone Video of the Year winner! Wondering how videos get nominated? Each week, we review all uploads to pick the Top 5 videos and our Drone Video of the Week (DVOW) winner. The DVOW winners are then contenders for Drone Video of the Month (DVOM), and the DVOM Winners are automatically nominated for Drone Video of the Year! 8 wildcard nominees were also added to the mix, but we landed with just 1 winner! Congrats! 

Top AirVuz contributor Lucaputzer won the DVOW contest with this fantastic video from the mighty K2 Mountain in Pakistan.  Filmed with both a gimbal-stabilized drone as well as first person view (FPV) drone equipment, the video was filmed over the course of a 16 day trek to the camp at the base of the mountain.  With a summit elevation of a little over 28.2k ft. (8.6k m), K2 is the world's second-highest mountain after Mt. Everest.  Located in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan's northernmost territory, it's part of the Karakoram Mountains.  

BashirAbuShakra is, by any measure, one of the world's top aerial videographers, with a massive social media following and many awards to his name.  In this inspiring piece, which won the DVOW contest in December of 2024, demonstrates his trademark filming style, which frequently involves shots showing himself in settings which make us understand the immensity of nature.  The video ws filmed in some of the world's most spectacular locations, including Angel Falls in Venezuela, Mongolia's Gobi Desert, the Swiss Alps, and much more.  

Top AirVuz contributor and pilot T-christ-T won the Drone Video of the Week contest with this fantastic video of Mt. Everest, the world's highest mountain.  The video, which mixes drone and ground camera footage, was filmed on the northern (Chinese Tibet) side of the mountain, which sits along the border with Nepal to the south.  With a peak of just over 29k ft. above sea level (around 8.8k m), Mt. Everest wasn't scaled by a documented climb until 1953, and not from its northern side until 1960.  

Prepare to be blown away by this fantastic reel from top AirVuz contributor and first person view (FPV) pilot ShaggyFPV.  The reel features collective highlights from the "Dutch Drone Gods", a group of Netherlands-based FPV pilots who collaborate on high profile commercial FPV filming work around the world.  You'll see a wide variety of action, landscape, "cinewhoop" and other highly demanding shots, ranging from BMX chasing to giant music concerts to fireworks displays.  This video made the FPV Pilots to Watch and was a DVOW Finalist.  

Check out this fantastic drone travel reel from Spain and Portugal by top contributor Migo-Studios.  Highlights include shots of the town of Olvera in the Spanish province of Cádiz (at the :02 mark); Spain's famous Consuegra windmills (:24); Portugal's Ursa Beach (:50); the Véu da Noiva Waterfall on the Portuguese island of Madeira (1:04); the Spanish castle of Almodóvar del Río (1:09); Covadonga Cathedral in Asturias, Spain (1:40); Zahara de la Sierra, another town in Cádiz (1:48); the famous bridge in Ronda, Spain (3:23); and more.  

Former Drone Video of the Year Finalist be_mesmerized brings us this stunning drone reel of his travels to nearly two dozen countries over the course of 2023.  Fast-moving and brilliantly edited, the video will take you to locations across five continents, including Croatia, Algeria, Bhutan, Iceland, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Afghanistan, Mongolia, the USA, Jordan, Venezuela, and Papua New Guinea.  The video includes marvelous ground-camera shots to complement the magnificent aerial footage.  

Greenland is one of the world's natural wonders.  Part of Denmark, the world's largest island covers 836k square mi. (a bit under 2.2 million square km), making it over three times the size of the France.  Over 80% of the island is covered by a massive ice sheet, the world's largest (by far) outside of Antarctica.  In this amazing video by new contributor FADAH_FPV, you'll explore the coast of this frozen land by drone.  Filmed over the course of a ten day cruise along the Greenland coast, this was a Drone Video of the Week Finalist.  

Top AirVuz contributor Arnaud Lesueur won the Drone Video of the Week contest in August of 2024 with this fantastic demo reel.  Featuring a mix of gimbal-stabilized drone and first person view (FPV) drone footage, the video was filmed in various spots around Europe, primarily in the Alps mountains.  At the :20 mark, there's a dramatic timelapse shot of some clouds hanging over a mountain valley.  Further on you will skim over alpine ridges, fly over a running race, dive a waterfall, and much more. 

Former Drone Video of the Year Finalist Feeling Drone - Guillermo García
 brings us this fantastic trip video from Iceland, which was picked as the DVOW Winner in August, 2024.  Edited and narrated in this talented content creator's distinctive style, the video features epic shots (including epic FPV sequences) from across iceland, including the Skogafoss, Gulfoss, and Godafoss waterfalls; the Vatnajökull glacier; Iceland's famous black sand beaches; the mountainous interior highlands; the erupting Fagradalsfjall volcano, and more.   

Top AirVuz contributor panvelvet won the Drone Video of the Week award with this fantastic demo reel.  Brilliantly edited, the reel features a mix of shots of urban, landscape, and action scenes from around the world, primarily China.  Movie quality sequences range from shots of a climber scaling a massive skyscraper in Shanghai to a shot of the famous hot air ballooning scene in Cappadocia, Turkey.  At the :32 mark, you'll see a partially submerged submarine, and at :47 there's a shot of a high-speed train racing past a pagoda.   

Prepare to be blown away by this stunning drone video from Antarctica, compliments of multiple Drone Video of the Week/Month Winner Makharov.  The video was filmed with a DJI Mavic Pro 3 over the course of a nine day journey from the city of Ushuaia, Argentina, at the southern tip of South America.  The journey took the travlers across the Drake Passage to the Antarctic Peninsula, a giant landform which extends north from the Antarctic mainland, with its tip about 700 mi. (around 1.2k km) from Ushuaia.