Mike Single’s latest film captures Death Valley in glorious HD.

The NHNZ production, simply titled Death Valley, examines the climatic and geological forces at work in the region, one of the hottest on the planet. The film also investigates how native flora and fauna survive in the unforgiving and often violent desert environment.

Shot in high-definition, Death Valley is a co-production with WNET in the US, NDR in Germany and Japanese broadcaster NHK.

Ellen Windemuth, managing director of Off The Fence, the company distributing Death Valley, says the combination of Single’s craftsmanship and the high-definition technology in which it’s filmed has resulted in a film of “breathtaking scope and beauty”.

See? HD is good for all sorts of things.

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