Mergui – The Hidden Island of Myanmar

Nature & Wildlife·2x50 min·In Development

Hidden off Myanmar’s coast, the Mergui Archipelago reveals one of Southeast Asia’s last wild island realms, where rainforest, mangroves and reefs teem with rare life.

Genre
Nature & Wildlife
Duration
2x50 min
Definition
4K
Audio
5.1
Status
In Development
Back to all projects

Synopsis

Hidden in the Andaman Sea lies one of the least explored island wildernesses in Southeast Asia. For decades, Myanmar’s Mergui Archipelago remained closed to the outside world – a maze of more than 800 islands where ancient rainforests, remote beaches and pristine coral reefs have endured unseen.

Here, life is shaped by two elemental forces: the ancient rock of the islands and the moving currents of the Andaman Sea. Families of spectacled langurs move through rainforests, while tropical kingfishers patrol creeks for fish. At dusk, thousands of flying foxes leave their roosts and cross the sea between islands. Along secluded beaches, sea turtles emerge from darkness to nest.
Beneath the waves, coral reefs create underwater labyrinths where octopuses hunt. In tidal pools, fish survive in worlds that exist only for a few hours a day. Along the coast, mangroves flood and empty with each tide as small-clawed otters hunt in shifting shallows.

Far offshore, powerful currents converge at the Burma Banks, drawing manta rays and whale sharks to one of the Indian Ocean’s remarkable marine ecosystems.
Mergui – one of the last island wildernesses in Southeast Asia, where survival and resilience are written in the rhythm of rock, sea and time itself.

Team

Written by Johannes Berger, Stephan Krasser, Claudia Schmitt
Directed by Johannes Berger, Stephan Krasser, Hendrik S. Schmitt
Executive producer Susanne Lummer
Production companies Terra Mater Studios, Catkin Media, The Jetlagged
Footage rights

Licensing & Usage

Interested in licensing or footage usage?
Contact us directly.

Get in touch

In the same Genre