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Ed Stafford: Into the Unknown

Project Summary

Ed Stafford: Into the Unknown Poster
Genre
Adventure, Documentary
Featured Content
Agriculture, Culture, Mystery, Remote Wilderness, Survival, Swamp, Traditional Knowledge
Islands
Papua
Regions
Merauke
Narrator

Ed Stafford

Talent

Ed Stafford

Producers

Felix Black

Jonny Young

Director

Jonny Young

Other Crew

Trevor Lopez De Vergara

Ed Stafford Into The Unknown Poster

FORMAT

TV Series

RELEASED

2015

EPISODE

S1E1

TITLE

South Papua

Overview

Ed Stafford is on a mission to investigate the planet's newest mysteries. With photographs of Earth – taken by spy satellites and the International Space Station – showing strange and unexplained markings in some of the most remote and inaccessible places on the planet, Ed sets out to find the target, and solve the riddle.

In This Episode

Unexplained white lines found on satellite images have spurred on Ed to paddle deep into one of the most inaccessible parts of Papua. Ed sets out to find the cause of these mysterious white lines, covering a vast area in an uninhabited expanse of swamp on Kimaam Island - also known as Yos Sudarso - in West Papua. Helped by a team of travelling missionaries, he gets close to his target before having to venture alone into the swamp. It's slow progress and, as Ed closes in, his adventure takes a totally unexpected turn when he finds a group of indigenous people living in what was thought to be an uninhabitable swamp. As the mystery deepens, Ed is led to a settlement no outsiders have ever visited before. Among the villagers he undergoes a tribal initiation, and discovers a startling insight into an ancient way of life.

Jungle Run Production Services

To support Ed Stafford and crew in a remote corner of Papua, we called on local friends.

KMTV Merauke is just one of dozens of local television stations with whom we enjoy a long relationship distributing Earth Report and other programming of an environmental bent. Besides supporting diverse local media outlets, our ad hoc TV network provides us ears and boots on the ground across this vast archipelago.

Video

Locations

Papua

Merauke

Kimaam Island

Production Companies

Keo films l
KEO Films

Distributors

Discovery Channel