What I do
Services
I am available for select freelance work — locally in Gustavus, or remotely in Southeast Alaska or elsewhere if you cover travel costs.
If I can't help you directly, I'll do my sincere best to make sure you get the help you need. I'd rather you find the right person than the wrong fit.
Video Production
Aerial drone cinematography — shoot, edit, and delivery. Stock footage licensed direct from my archive. Custom shots, documentary work, nature and wildlife, adventure video, vanity projects, real estate, aerial surveying, and location scouting. I don't do weddings unless they are genuinely non-traditional . . . but I would gladly shoot your funeral! (prepaid, of course, thanks!)
Audio Production
Mastering, recording, most aspects of technical production, and consultation. I can help you reinvigorate a stalled project, or help you do it right in the first place. Remote collaboration welcome.
Stock footage
Direct Licensing
My archive is also available through Pond5, but licensing direct means you deal with a human being who knows every clip personally — and will pay considerably less for the privilege. Please see my Direct Licensing Rates below.
Yes, Pond5 downloads are immediate, but better pricing, selection, and terms are available if you have the time!
Contact mizamook@gmail.com to discuss your project.
Response times, usually within a few hours, will vary I'm in Southeast Alaska, occasionally out of range, and thoroughly unashamed of it. If I'm away on a shoot or adventure, my return date will be posted via autoresponder.Find the work
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Origin story
Who is Mizamook?
"Mizamook" (MEEZ-uh-mook) is a modification of the name of a fictitious character in a book I liked very much — a princess in an Inuit-like society of small mountain-folk, steadfast and capable, with a very groovy and difficult name. We named our first kitty after her. When we had to choose our first email address, "Mizamook" hadn't been taken, because I'd made it up. It became a name I knew could be mine, and so it remains.
My name is Gene Cornelius. I've been shooting footage in Alaska for fifteen years, with results ranging from a BBC/Netflix nature series narrated by Sir David Attenborough, to hard drives full of material that will likely never see the light of day, and a bit of everything in between. Perhaps the unique treasures you seek are in my archives!
Alaska is so much more than bears and eagles and moose. It's deeper than towering peaks and no state income tax. It's much larger than the load of baggage you brought to it (which will remain, of course, should you flee) and at the same time it's more open to interpretation than you might think. I've been here long enough to know the difference between a tourist's Alaska and the real one — and long enough to have footage of both.
I'm based in Gustavus in Southeast Alaska, which is as remote as it sounds and more interesting than it looks on a map.