We concentrate on providing a bespoke service that helps to design and create treatments, providing all-encompassing health and safety, technical advice and medical cover tailored to fit your requirements in whatever environment – Jungle, Desert, Mountain, Arctic or UK environments, no matter how extreme.
With over two decades of combined experience, S2Si can get you filming in some of the world's most remote, extreme and often hostile environments. We specialise in providing a bespoke service encompassing everything from logistics and technical advice to comprehensive medical support, tailored for your particular needs. In short, S2Si is a ‘one-stop-shop’ for all your health and safety, planning, logistics and expedition support needs wherever you need to be.
We have access to staff and an expert panel that have operated in all major environments, including the Jungle, Desert, Mountain and the Arctic.
Whether it be drawing up treatments for programmes that work with remote tribes in the South Pacific, or providing an full support system for kayaking, mountain or jungle expeditions to Borneo, South America or North Africa, S2Si can help. Staff have assisted TV and film companies worldwide for years; the client list includes the BBC, Ginger TV, Ricochet TV, IWC and MTV. We can take care of all your location management and logistics, as well as providing 1st class medical support both pre– and post-departure allowing you to focus on the filming.
Crucially S2Si believes that having an extreme environment doctor on the ground as well as expert technical and logistical advisors allows your team to stay safe and maximise on filming. We will also complete detailed risk assessments, evacuation plans, call-sheets and schedules as well as providing consultancy for developing treatments or commissions.
These are some of the programmes where the support from consultants was vital to the safe running and completion of the filming sheduale; often in extreme environments:
UK
Working for CBBC, staff that now work for S2Si provided creative input including project management for prop purchasing, and led 13 outdoor challenges for Crisis Control – to be aired on BBC1 in early 2009. Sets were designed and created for these 13 challenges ranging from an Earthquake to a Tsunami and Volcano.
Rob helped to set up and run many of the indoor and outdoor selection weekend challenges for the Jungle series of the award-winning CBBC Serious Series.
MOROCCO
Working with the US TV giant MTV and the US production company Left Right, S2Si staff provided logistical expertise, desert training, security, and health & safety cover for the first series of Exiled. A young American teenage boy lived with a local Berber tribe and completed all the daily chores necessary, as well as proving himself as a Berber.
Working with Ricochet TV, S2Si consultants provided strong leadership and comprehensive health and safety cover, training and logistics for Channel 5’s Unbreakables. Six to eight adults were put through their paces in the Sahara Desert for over seven days.
BORNEO
Working with Ginger TV, S2Si consultants provided the advice, leadership and health and safety cover for a difficult trek in the heart of the Borneo jungle (Sarawak) to meet the Penan, one of the last remaining hunter gatherer tribes in the world.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Working with the BBC, staff that now work for S2Si provided logistical, jungle and health and safety expertise for the ‘Last Man Standing’ series in the heart of the remote Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, living and working with indigenous communities.
Working with Ricochet TV, S2Si consultants led a tough and spectacular trek through the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea as part of the new Ben Fogle documentary series Extreme Dreams, rafting back to civilisation on bamboo rafts.
GUYANA
Working with Ricochet TV, S2Si consultants were involved in taking Ben Fogle to Guyana for the first in the series of Extreme Dreams. The expedition used dugout canoes and trekked to the base of Kaiteur Falls, the largest single-drop waterfall in the world.
BELIZE
Working with Ginger TV, S2Si consultants, took Jack Osbourne to Belize for the second series of Adrenaline Junkie. The group was led to Chiquibul Chamber, one of the largest cave systems in the Western hemisphere. From there they continued their trek to the awe-inspiring Mayan ruins of Caracol, deep in the heart of the rainforests of Belize.








