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BBC Map Men / No Data

Justin HAll Explorer Elsewhere Project

Adventure Series: Cutting Edge Technology applied in the context of investigative expeditions mapping the lesser-known parts of the world

Having pitched a fair few projects to the teams at BBC Natural History department and BBC Earth of Bristol we finally had a green light on an idea that took advantage of high tech tools and lateral thinking here’s the promo followed by one of my pitches that set things in motion.

 NO DATA: Travels to the edge of the known world… and beyond!’’

In such a hi-tech world, it is easy to imagine that we know all there is to know… that every valley, mountain, jungle, ocean and desert have been mapped to the nearest millimetre… And yet for all our efforts and activities: supercomputers and scanning satellites, there are still areas of Earth, so remote, so isolated that we know nothing about them at all… They appear on maps as grey patches defined only by the words ‘NO DATA’

My original (Pitch 2011) of the idea os laid out in full below… 

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Lost City (Colombia)

Justin Hall Nat Geo Explorer Runningman discovers lost city Colombia

The Secrets of The Map Stone: Developed & Produced by Justin Hall

Explorer Justin Hall Runningman

Travelling deep into the heart of Colombia’s jungle-clad coastal mountains, this extraordinary multi-part BBC special reveals a truly remarkable story of daring exploration, lost cities, tomb raiders, bandits, ancient tribes, cryptic maps and golden treasure… A real-world Indiana Jones adventure grounded by science and in close collaboration with UNESCO, the Global Heritage Fund and the Colombian Institute of Anthropology & Indigenous Peoples. With unique access and a host of incredible details. Here is the promo and detailed Pitch doc just for fun… it’s an epic truly epic adventure.

Working at first with BBC EARTH (Mark Wild) then the teams at  NAT GEO (Hamish Mc Keown and finally the fantastic Keo FIlms who edited the following promo

Heres the detailed pitch doc….

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Tribes 2.0 (Series Pitch)

Tirio Tribe Suriname music Justin Hall Nat Geo Explorer Runningman

Tribes 2.0 ‘Then and Now’

Developed by Justin Hall

This unique series travels back in time as it revisits 12 of the world’s last remaining tribal and hunter-gathering groups. Utilising high tech expedition and mapping technologies as never before, the series is underpinned by a bank of unique tribal footage drawn from over 40 years of expeditions and 25 films made by renowned ethnographer and explorer Jean Pierre Dutilleux. The series presents a unique ‘then and now’, tribal perspective on the world today. Offering an up-to-the-minute youthful perspective, Dutilleux is joined by high tech tribal explorer and natural history filmmaker Justin Hall. Complementing each other’s skills (traditional and modern) and inspiring the audience along the way (with collaborative online systems), the team introduce a wholly updated approach to this captivating genre.

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