MEDIA SERVICES
Guyana’s leading location producer
Nobody handles more scouts, film crews, reporters, production teams, and photojournalists in Guyana than Wilderness Explorers.
Operating since 1994, we are Guyana’s only Destination Management Company and leading Location Producers. In fact, we offer unrivalled experience supporting, clearing and managing global media teams working across all three Guianas. Our portfolio of services ranges from the purely practical – location planning, logistics, materiel management, transport, supplies, and staffing – to the more complex challenges of securing governmental permits and approvals, researching content and creating storylines, arranging high-level interviews, chartering aircraft and vehicles, and discretely managing delicate relationships with indigenous communities who may be unfamiliar with western media practices and norms. We are preferred fixers for the BBC as well as an accredited Disney vendor and in early 2021 supported Dan O’Neill’s trip to Guyana to film Last Eden for BBC Earth as well as two major productions for National Geographic which was aired in 2022. Over the years we have worked with several TV production companies such as Icon Films, Big Earth Productions for CNN, Infocus-Asia, Zero Point Zero, Uplands TV, Ricochet and ITV as well as various independent companies in Europe, North America and Asia. We have also supported many photojournalists and writers commissioned to write for prestigious publications such as The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Wanderlust, National Geographic Magazine as well as key influencers and bloggers.
Lost Land of the Jaguar
Discover the lost land of the Jaguar. In a bid to discover new species and help Guyana protect its environment, the expedition team ventures into some of the remote jungle on earth tracking down the giants of the area; the Anaconda, the Jaguar, the giant Anteaters, the Turtles and the enormous Harpy Eagle.
National Geographic’s Explorer; The Last Tepui
National Geographic’s Explorer: The Last Tepui was filmed in February 2021 and featured Alex Honnold, the world-class mountaineer of ‘Freesolo’ fame and 80 year-old Dr Bruce Means, a biologist in search of new species to the Guiana Shield plus an experienced crew of world-class climbers, film-makers and an expedition doctor. This hour-long programme told the story of the first ascent of Mount Weiassipu in the wild and remote tepuis and highlands of western Guyana, an area rarely visited due to the difficult terrain but the perfect setting for adventurous expeditions and unique unexplored micro-environments.
Disney Plus – Primal Survivor; Escape the Amazon
Produced by Icon Films for Disney Plus, Primal Survivor: Escape the Amazon is a five-episode series about Hazen Audel’s 500-mile journey across Guyana, from its remote highlands and dramatic waterfalls, to impenetrable rainforest, vast savannahs, swollen rivers and flooded coastal areas. Using the traditional bushcraft and survival skills that he learns from the different indigenous peoples that he encounters, he manages to survive encounters with some of Guyana’s most lethal wildlife to complete his journey from the Amazon to the Atlantic.
Factual History: Slave Owner
BBC’s Factual History series Britain’s Secret Slave Owners explores that country’s historical relationship with slavery. Based on extensive government records, the program reveals how slave-ownership was not just the preserve of a privileged few but was deeply ingrained in British culture, cutting across class, race and gender. The crew visited plantations formerly owned by British slave-owners, the national archives which hold crucial documents that reveal the nature of slavery in Guyana; and key sites in Demerara.
Steve Backshall Adventure
Wild life expert Steve Backshall seeks out the world’s most fierce animals as he heads off on six epic adventures to Guyana, Mexico, Namibia, Indonesia, Australia and South Africa. Along the way he encounters Australia’s largest venomous snake, the Coastal Taipan, gets perilously close to the largest carnivorous reptile in South America, the giant Black Caiman and attempts to track down the endangered Giant River Otter.
Monster Fish
Infocus Asia Pte Ltd (IFA) is a multi award-winning media company offering content and services to the international broadcast industry from 4 offices across Asia. IFA provides research, editorial and production services and produces high rating content for a global audience. IFA was commissioned by National Geographic to produce Season Six of the highly successful Monster Fish series, including an episode filmed in Guyana.
BBC Planet Earth
The BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) is a department of the BBC which produces television, radio and online content with a natural history or wildlife theme. It is best known for its highly regarded nature documentaries, including The Blue Planet and Planet Earth, and has a long association with David Attenborough’s authored documentaries, notably Life on Earth. Guyana was again placed on the film/documentary market.
Big Earth – Tales of Travel
Tales of Travel was produced by Big Earth Productions and follows best selling Saudi author Abdullah Al Jumah as he backpacks through South America. Abdullah’s incredible journey of discovery will see him trekking through dense jungle to reach the world’s tallest waterfall in Venezuela, surviving the night in Guyana’s deepest, darkest rainforest, encountering some of the continent’s most dangerous and unusual wild creatures, hanging out with the locals and even spending some time in uniform!
Deadly Pole to Pole
The ‘Deadly’ brand is a very popular children’s wildlife educational series in Britain and around the world, which has been running for over five years. The new series called ‘Deadly Pole to Pole’ in which our presenter, Steve Backshall, circumnavigates the planet, from the frozen north to the far south, visiting every continent to track down the world’s greatest predators. We were commissioned by BBC Bristol to produce the educational series which was filmed in Guyana in October – November 2013.
River Monsters
Icon Films is an award-winning UK television production company with a reputation for originality, excellence, and entertainment across the breadth of factual genres including science, history, exploration and natural history. Icon was commissioned by Animal Planet to produce a two hour documentary pilot which was filmed in Guyana in February / March 2011. The pilot was bought by Animal Planet which led to the highly successful River Monsters documentary series hosted by Jeremy Wade. Wade returned for a dramatic second visit in 2013.
The Wild Within
Zero-Point-Zero is an Emmy-award winning documentary New York production company on contract with Travel Channel to film an eight-destination series called The Wild Within with host Steven Rinella. Steven and his crew travelled deep into the heart of Guyana, camping along the Rewa River with Amerindian guides. The nature of the documentary and large production unit required complex logistics and permitting which was handled entirely by Wilderness Explorers.
River Giants
The concept for this new wildlife series was bold. Mark O’Shea, a herpetologist with extensive field experience, sets out to follow a series of quests – including finding the secretive, highly venomous and extremely endangered Atlantic coastal bushmaster, the threatened American crocodile, and the alligator snapping turtle, the largest freshwater turtle in the Americas. It wasn’t only the creatures that were risky. So was the concept…
World’s Toughest Tribes
Ricochet, a television company in the UK, was commissioned to produce ‘The World’s Toughest Tribes’, a major six-part series for the Discovery network. The series features some modern day ‘tribes’ – the people who perform some of the toughest jobs in the world. It did take a look at some of the world’s traditional industries – logging, mining, deep-sea fishing, ranching – and explore the work that goes on behind the scenes. The documentary was filmed in 2006
Jeff Corwin Experience
Jeff Corwin explores the Guyana Shield, the dense rainforest that thousands of “giants” call home in Guyana. He discovers the largest toad found in South America, the largest freshwater turtle and the largest creature equipped with a giant tongue. Jeff partnered with Animal Planet and Popular Arts Entertainment to launch a new wildlife adventure series titled The Jeff Corwin Experience. Jeff and his team visited Guyana in 2001 to film a documentary.
Legends of the Lost World
Rising from the mists of the jungle, Wild Chronicles joins researchers to scale a giant tepui in Guyana, South America. Flat-topped mountains with sheer sides rising over 8000 feet into the clouds, tepuis are like prehistoric islands in the sky, populated by plants and animals found nowhere else. Don’t look down as this story is a real cliff hanger. Wilderness Explorers/Guyana was elated when National Geographic choose Guyana as their next destination to film a documentary.
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