Uncharted Territory, LLC is a film production company based in Los Angeles, California. UT was founded in 1999 by academy award winning visual effects supervisor and producer Volker Engel and Emmy award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

 winning VFX supervisor and producer Marc Weigert

Marc Weigert

Marc Weigert is a film producer and film/TV visual effects artist.-Early career:Weigert was born in Bad Harzburg, Germany. While in Christian-von-Dohm-Gymnasium, a grammar school in Goslar, Germany, he developed an interest in filmmaking. He moved on to study directing and producing from 1991-1994...

. Engel and Weigert usually serve as producers or co-producers and visual effects supervisors on the company's projects.

With their first production, the adventure movie "Coronado" in 2001, UT started a new paradigm for handling visual effects: Instead of contracting out to other established VFX houses, UT would build up a VFX crew from scratch by selecting freelance artists, managers and programmers and creating the necessary infrastructure (hardware and software), custom tailored to a single project only.

This in-house VFX crew is, as in the case of the latest production "2012

2012 (film)

2012 is a 2009 American disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich. It stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, and Woody Harrelson. It was produced by Emmerich's production company, Centropolis Entertainment and was distributed by Columbia Pictures...

", up to 100 people strong.

The company has a subsidiary in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

: Uncharted Territory GmbH.

Productions

• The Triangle (2005)
• Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King
  Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King
  Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King is a fantasy film and mini-series based on the Norse mythology story Völsungasaga and the German epic poem Nibelungenlied, which tells the mythological story of Siegfried the Dragon-Slayer...
  
   (2004)
• Coronado (2003)

Visual effects productions

• Anonymous
  Anonymous (film)
  Anonymous is a political thriller and historical drama which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011. Directed by Roland Emmerich and written by John Orloff, the movie is a fictionalized version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, an Elizabethan...
  
   (2011)
• 2012
  2012 (film)
  2012 is a 2009 American disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich. It stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, and Woody Harrelson. It was produced by Emmerich's production company, Centropolis Entertainment and was distributed by Columbia Pictures...
  
   (2009)
• The Triangle (2005)
• The Day After Tomorrow
  The Day After Tomorrow
  The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science-fiction disaster film that depicts the catastrophic effects of global warming in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling which leads to a new ice age. The film did well at the box office, grossing $542,771,772 internationally...
  
   (2004)
• Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King
  Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King
  Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King is a fantasy film and mini-series based on the Norse mythology story Völsungasaga and the German epic poem Nibelungenlied, which tells the mythological story of Siegfried the Dragon-Slayer...
  
  (2004)
• Coronado (2003)