2020 Drone Video of the Month Winners

MV Agusta is one of the most storied names in motorcycles.  Based in Milan, the company collaborated with two-time Drone Video Award winner Timelab.pro to produce this magnificent piece from the mountains of northern Italy.  You'll aerially follow an Agusta bike through some of the world's most beautiful scenery, and then do things no bike will ever do, like soar through the peaks of the Dolomites, or skim over shimmering alpine lakes.  Filmed in the Fall, the video is expertly color-graded in the vaunted Timelab style.  

Award-winning contributor Florian Ledoux used some of his best drone footage from earth's polar regions to put together this outstanding piece which won DVOW in February 2020. He skillfully uses the backdrop of shrinking glaciers and melting icebergs to remind us how these eco-systems - which hold the vast majority of the earth's freshwater - are to global climate change. The video features jaw-dropping footage from Greenland, Antarctica, the Canadian province of Nunavut, the Svalbard Islands of Northern Norway, and Iceland.

Brand-new AirVuz contributor expeditionsouth hit a "bullseye" with this spectacular drone video from Bolivia. He spent two months criss-crossing this landlocked South American country with a Kawasaki KLR 650 motorcycle and a DJI Mavic Pro drone. The DVOW winning video features footage from both the portion of the country covered by the Andes Mountains system as well as the northern portion, which is part of the Amazon River Basin. Check out the amazing aerials of the Uyuni Salt Flats, the "train cemetery", the Altiplano, and much more.  

Check out this DVOW winning international travel reel by brand-new AirVuz contributor Lancelot.Tintignies. Shot over the course of a year, the video features footage from France, Iceland, Faroe Island, Brazil, Hong Kong and Australia.  Some of the highlights include the famous Hallgrímskirkja Church in Reykjavik (Iceland) at the :23 mark, a great sequence of top-down shots starting at :38; some shots of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris starting at 1:04, a nighttime view of Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor (1:20), and more.

Panvelet is one of the top contributors in the AirVuz community; his video of Shanghai called "24 Hours" won the "Originality" category at the second annual Drone Video Awards, and he's since been picked as a Drone Video of the Week Finalist multiple times.  All good reasons to check out the stunning drone reel uploaded by this very talented creator.  Expertly edited, the video features a mix of shots from various countries around the world, ranging from the skyscrapers of Hong Kong, and Los Angeles to a partially-submerged submarine.  

Prepare to be blown away by this drone video from the republic of Dagestan in Southern Russia by Drone Video of the Month Winner DiamondSky.  With its eastern border on the Caspian Sea, most of the Muslim-majority Federal Subject (essentially, province) is covered by the northern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains, which divide Europe from Asia.  The focus of the video is Dagestan's interior, whose rock formations, canyons, waterfalls, and other features make for some of the finest natural scenery in all of Russia.  

AirVuz contributor inigui is one of the top content creators on AirVuz, with multiple Drone Video of the Week Finalist spots to his name.  Not surprisingly, his latest compilation reel is a cinematic experience to behold.  The video features footage from around the world; in just the first half-minute, you'll be treated to some epic footage of a flock of flamingoes on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, the idyllic beaches of Palawan in the Philippines, the skyscrapers of Mexico City, and an epic shot of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.  

Prepare to be blown away by this action reel by Skynamic, a company founded by several top German drone pilots and camera operators.  The video is full of cinema-quality drone footage, all of which has been paired with some equally impressive production.  The video's focus is technically complex action shots, such as battle scenes (including some incredible footage of racing tanks), car races, exploding vehicles, and more; there's even a shot of what appears to be a DHL delivery drone. This video won the Showreel category at the 6th Annual NYCDFF.

Check out this stunning captioned tour of Slovakia by top contributor HikeTheWorld.  Combining drone and ground camera footage, the video by the multiple DVOW Winner features footage from 30 top destinations in this Central European country, including Ľubovňa and Bojnice Castles; the town of Banská Štiavnica; the Súľov Rocks; the Western Tatras; the city of Bardejov; Devín Castle; Lednica Castle; the High Tatras; the Little Carpathians; Spiš Castle; the cities of Bratislava, Kremnica, and Košice; Orava Castle; Čachtice Castle; and more. 

Former Drone Video Award Winner panvelvet brings us this spectacular DVOW winning video from Shanghai, as the great city was lit up by a massive laser show to celebrate the 70th birthday of the People's Republic of China.  Part of the video was shot from the Bund on the western side of the Hunagpu River looking toward the skyscrapers of the ultra-modern Pudong district on the river's opposite side.  Other parts were shot from Pudong itself, with some magnificent footage of some of the world's tallest skyscrapers lit up by lasers.  

Brand-new AirVuz contributor and pilot GTDRONE brings us this DVOW winning demo reel from Poland.  The reel features a great mix of landscape and action shots from across this giant Central European country.  It contains footage from the length and breadth of Poland, ranging from the sand spits of the country's northern coast on the Baltic Sea, to the plains which cover much of northern interior Poland, to the snow-covered peaks of the Carpathian Mountains in the southern part of the country.  

Top contributor Jay Christensen brings us this masterpiece of a drone reel from his home city of Minneapolis. The film uses a variety of drone footage to show the empty downtowns due to the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, as well as the protests, rioting, and devastation following the death of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day, which triggered some of the most serious racial unrest in the USA in decades.  Also seen are empty Target Field, US Bank Stadium, Target Center, Excel Center, and Allianz Field.