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Chasing Mummies: The Amazing Adventures of
Zahi Hawass is a weekly onehour series that will bring
viewers all the way to Egypt to climb through pyramids and
hunt for mummies with the world’s foremost authority on
ancient Egypt and the Secretary General of its Supreme
Council for Antiquities, Dr. Zahi Hawass.
Video Cairo Sat’s responsibilities for
“Chasing Mummies” involved comprehensive pre-production and
production services including:
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Creating overall theme, writing episodes and assisting in the creative writing process
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Preparing treatments
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Research and scouting
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Obtaining permits and customs clearances
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Preparing and finalizing legal contracts, deals and permits
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Facilitating domestic and international communication
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Accommodation
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Security
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Transportation
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Pre-production support and Logistics
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Production budgeting
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Crewing and hiring production crews and local Egyptian personnel and expertise
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On-site production
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Preparing and distributing daily call sheets
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Bookkeeping and financial management
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Access to archival footage from VCS library
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Chasing Mummies: The Amazing Adventures of Zahi Hawass
is a History
Channel production scheduled to air in May 2010. The series
follows Dr. Zahi Hawass the renowned Egyptologist on his
adventures across Egypt as he makes real archeological
discoveries with a team of Americans and Egyptians engaging
them in an unprecedented experiment in inter-cultural
dynamics.
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For four months a highly professional crew
from USA, France, Sweden, Sudan, Canada, Ireland, UK and
Australia along with 20 Egyptian TV production
professionals, travelled from Alexandria to Luxor with Dr.
Hawass and his fellows on a journey to uncover Egypt’s past.
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The journey promises to transport the
viewers into the exhilarating and exciting environment of
Egypt’s breathtaking archeological sites and locations.
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Some of the real discoveries Dr. Hawass
makes are being seen for the first time on TV and include
unearthing mummies, removing pylons from the bottom of the
sea, climbing up the fifth chamber in the Great Pyramid of
Giza, going down the Seti I tomb 140 meter narrow shaft in
the Valley of the Kings.
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1121 Corniche El Nile St. Maspero