RING OF FIRE
Ring of fire
Available worldwide ⓘ
Available in US, UK, Canada & Australia
Available worldwide ⓘ
Available in US, UK, Canada & Australia
THE FILM
CELEBRATING
50 YEARS
Now available on iTunes, this exciting five-part series documents the ten-year voyage of two filmmakers and brothers, Lorne and Lawrence Blair, through the world’s largest and least-known archipelago – the exotic, mysterious islands of Indonesia. These islands form a chain of active volcanos around into the Pacific to form the “ring of fire”.
The Blair Brothers sailed with pirates aboard their black-sailed schooners in search of the Bird of Paradise, struggled through rapids and deep jungle searching for elusive nomadic tribes, witnessed veiled forms of human sacrifice and found themselves drawn into ten years of danger and discovery in a magic land where myths still flourish.
Their intimate encounters with the vanishing masters of tribal wisdom were to lead them from a physical adventure into a deeper, more personal quest of self-discovery.
Originally cut from 80 hours of 16mm film in co-production with WGBH Boston, Ring of Fire was produced, directed and photographed by Lorne Blair and co-produced and written by Lawrence Blair. Executive producer was Frontline’s David Fanning.
The digital remaster is powered by impact media company SAVEarth studios.
Available worldwide ⓘ
Available in US, UK, Canada & Australia
Available worldwide ⓘ
Available in US, UK, Canada & Australia
MEDIA
THE STORIES
SPACE TALKS
Dr Lawrence Blair on Nature, Meditation & Ring Of Fire Adventures
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NOW BALI
Fantastic Documentaries Now Available On iTunes
Two very different but equally important Indonesia-focused documentaries have recently been released on iTunes for online viewing.
‘Bali: Island of the Dogs’ and ‘Ring of Fire: an Indonesian Odyssey’ have two things in common, those being: Dr. Lawrence Blair, an explorer, film-maker, author, psycho anthropologist and public speaker on the peoples and creatures of Indonesia…
REVIEWS
WHAT THEY SAY
“A vivid Indonesian odyssey… ADVENTURE sets sail and sights for lands as unfamiliar and spectacular as anything dreamed up for a Steven Spielberg movie…Thoroughly fascinating nearly every harrowing step of the way… it is not the style of the Blairs to indulge in anthropological voyeurism, however, they neither patronize nor romanticize the primitivism of the cultures they visit…The brothers are engaging and eloquent guides… Under the right circumstances, television can be a bold expeditionary force: with ‘RING OF FIRE’, Public Television and ‘ADVENTURE’ find themselves under the right circumstances once more.”
Tom Shales, THE WASHINGTON POST
“In another age the Blair brothers might have been Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Thor Heyerdahl, Lewis and Clark, Stanley and Livingstone… Hypnotically into four one-hour documentaries that are part eye-popping travelogue, part living record of people and places untouched by the last 50,000 years of technological development, and part incomparable adventure teeming with thrills, chills, mystery and the bizarre… But perhaps the real value of the work is etched in the faces of the adventurers themselves, whose Indiana Jones-like real lives are as much a part of the films as are the lives of the native peoples and lands they visited. Not only will the audience see the brothers age over the course of 10 years, but it also will watch them become a part of the strange places they set out to capture on film. And the integration of these two white, English brothers into some of the most foreign societies imaginable does, after awhile, begin to resonate with the possibilities afforded to humankind when individuals are willing to risk opening their minds to the unfathomable.”
Steve Weintein, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
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