Carlos Neuenschwander, who had been conducting his own investigation into Paititi and the significance of the Pantiacolla plateau since the 1950’s. “Beginning in 1994, we allied ourselves with Peru’s foremost living explorer, Dr. And in 1984 I began traveling there, to the north and northeast of Cusco, first in the company of Cusqueño hunters who had made forays well past their holdings in Paucartambo, and then with the Quechua-speaking highland campesinos of Challabamba and Calca that I had met through them.” It was then that I began to hear about a site which lay hidden somewhere off to the east, where the Andes and the Amazonian rain forests meet in a riot of hills, ravines, and isolated peaks, all covered in jungle and crisscrossed by unnavigable boulder-strewn rivers and streams. Legendary explorer Greg Deyermenjian explains his extraordinary devotion to the area, “The quest for Paititi, for the furthest presence of the Incas into the selva beyond the ranges, began for me after having visited, in 1981, the site of Vilcabamba, the redoubt of Manco Inca–who did finally rebel against the Spaniards after enduring nearly three years of their increasingly harsh rule–at Espíritu Pampa in the forested plains of La Convención province to the northwest of Machu Picchu. Currently drug trafficking, illegal logging and oil mining are overtaking this part of Peru, and many amateur explorers that enter are often killed. The BBC’s psychological thriller The Woman in White filmed in the area, as did ITV’s The Frankenstein Chronicles, doubling the city for 1830s London.įor more on The Lost City of Z and its Colombia shoot see an extended article on our sister site KFTV here.Due to the remote location of the area, as well as dense mountains that have to be traveled, it is no wonder that Paititi remains so hard to find. In production terms, Northern Ireland is best known internationally as the home of HBO’s fantasy drama Game of Thrones, but Belfast is also a popular location for UK television shoots. Other filming locations included Belfast City Hall, Myra Castle and the Castle Ward National Trust property in County Down, as well as the First World War-era ship HMS Caroline, also in Belfast. “Recreating the battlefields of the Somme (at Antrim Hills outside Belfast) was also a very difficult ask on a relatively modest budget – it took a lot of scouting to find exactly the correct geography where we could shoot 360 (degrees) and have the freedom to create the trenches and explosions.” “Given that we were filming a period piece, even the period locations we used were changed - the decor, colours of walls, drapes – any modernity removed – the dressing and all props. “Absolutely everything was changed,” he tells The Knowledge. Location manager Andrew Wilson helped organise the Northern Ireland leg of the shoot. The Lost City of Z was supported with funding from Northern Ireland Screen. Northern Ireland was the production’s home for around five weeks of filming, shooting entirely on location in and around Belfast and the surrounding countryside. Fawcett also fought in the trenches of the Somme during the First World War. The film tells the tale of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who led expeditions into the Amazon rainforest in search of evidence of a lost civilisation. The Lost City of Z is based on a true early 20th century exploration story and used Northern Ireland as a production base, but also shot on location in Colombia.
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