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Christiaan Munoz Salas

Christiaan Munoz Salas

Cinematographer · Born July 21, 1986 (40) · Santiago de Chile, Chile

Primetime Emmy nominee

Christiaan Muñoz Salas is a Primetime Emmy Nominee (2022) cinematographer, wildlife filmmaker and photographer based in Araucania Region in the south of Chile, specialized in long and short fiction films, documentaries, and observation films. He has been involved in natural history filmmaking since his earlier days, following the steps of his father, Christian Muñoz Donoso, who is also a wildlife filmmaker, working closely with him in many productions, leading him to love and learn from nature and its behavior through a camera, which has now become his full-time job for the last thirteen years. As well as storytelling, he also has an extensive knowledge on film equipment and technology, which includes the latest UHD and High Speed cameras, film cameras, motion controlled systems, professional gimbals like the GSS, lighting systems and others. His work has been featured in a variety of films around the globe, which more recently includes BBC's The Americas series (2025), BBC's Mammals (2024) & Netflix's Our Living World (2024). Past works include wildlife series for Chilean national television channel Chilevision's Wild Chile (2018); Animal Planet/Discovery Channel's Wild Expectations (2016) which won the Emerging Talent award at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival 2017; BBC's mini landmark series Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise (2015); BBC's Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur (2016) which won the Special Jury Award price at Wildscreen 2016 and BBC's Planet Earth II (2016) which won BAFTA as well as Prime Time Emmy Awards in 2017. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2022 for his work Netflix's Our Great National Parks, ep. Chilean Patagonia, narrated by Barack Obama.

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Born
July 21, 1986 (40)
From
Santiago de Chile, Chile
Works as
Cinematographer
Titles
8 on MovieCove
Links
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Known for

What are Christiaan Munoz Salas' films like?

Across their 8 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Ideas and Survival.

Themes

share of theme weight
Ideas
48%
Survival
35%
Self
7%
Society
7%
Bonds
3%
Nature7 titles, browse their movies with this themeSurvival7 titles, browse their movies with this themeCommunity2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Contemplative
8
Hopeful
3
Warm
3
Joyful
2
Triumphant
3
Other
1

How their films linger

Hopeful8 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteThought-provoking3 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteRousing3 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFeel-good2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end

  • Happy4
  • Bittersweet1
  • Ambiguous1
  • Cyclical2

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Christiaan Munoz Salas' films?

As of October 24, 2026, all 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Christiaan Munoz Salas' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

8 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page.

  • The Americas(2025)

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    Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all shows

  • Mammals(2024)

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    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all shows

  • Our Living World(2024)

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    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all shows

  • Our Great National Parks(2022)

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    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows

  • Patagonia(2022)

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    Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows

  • Age of Big Cats(2018)

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    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)

  • Wild Chile(2018)

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    Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all shows

  • Planet Earth II(2016)

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    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all shows

Career shape

Across their 8 MovieCove titles from 2016 to 2025.

Highest rated

Mammals (2024)

Midcredits 97th

Most popular right now

Planet Earth II (2016)

By role

only this rolewith another role
Cinematography8 of 8: 8 only cinematography, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score88th

By decade

2010s3 · crew2020s5 · crew

Counts over their MovieCove titles; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles, shown from 5 scored.

Awards

Nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2022, Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program.

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

Who does Christiaan Munoz Salas work with?

People who share at least 2 of Christiaan Munoz Salas' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Christian Munoz-Donoso shares the most, 4.

Actors

Cinematographers

Producers

Mixed roles