Video
Yann Bigant is a videographer and drone operator based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and working regionally.
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The videos are lovely. Both productions are unique, personal and intimate. Well done.
Operation Sandokan – Cambodia’s wildlife trafficking networks
Drone footage for a video accompanying Earth League International latest investigation into criminal wildlife trade networks in Cambodia.
Aerial footage.
Client: Wildlight Productions / Earth League Intl, 2025
Why are mist nets a threat to birds in Southeast Asia?
This bittern, caught in a nearly invisible net, is just one victim of a crisis sweeping across Southeast Asia. Conservationists warn mist nets kill millions of birds every year.
Concept, reportage, footage.
Media: Mongabay TV, 2025 (0’46)
Smoke Free Villages
Changing cooking behaviours
In Cambodia, cooking with firewood remains predominant despite causing numerous health issues. SNV works with communities, businesses and authorities to change behaviours.
Direction, script, filming & editing full(5’10) & short(2’44) versions.
Client: SNV Cambodia, 2024
Smoke Free Village
How households make decisions
Community interactions are the most effective way to change long held habits. The Smoke Free Village project helps families rethink how they make decisions about cooking.
Direction, script, filming & editing.
Client: SNV Cambodia, 2024
Update 2026
Two videos under editing with 17 Triggers and UNICEF,
and another with IRD (Research Institute for Development).
Waste management entrepreneurs on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap
How Cambodia’s rural entrepreneurs are making money from waste and protecting the Tonle Sap lake, Southeast Asia’s most productive fishery.
Aerial footage.
Client: iDE Cambodia, 2024
Jazz Band @JZ Latino Shanghai
Medley music video for a new Caribbean steel drum band in Shanghai, China,
Filming & editing.
Client: Duncan Steel Drum Quartet, 2014
Other video work involves second cameraman on a Arctic expedition (trailer, 2016), filming conservation activities in Indonesia (sample, 2018-19) and in Cambodia.