Dear OEX;

Thanks! Your organization of our National Geographic crew and vehicles let us have a timetable.

     Photo: OEX, on location with National Geographic in Vietnam. Will this make it?

What a luxury in Vietnam. Your help went beyond getting us through tough areas. From keeping vehicles on a schedule from city to jungle, organizing placement of equipment for safety and access, (the OEX team knew to put the most important equipment in the lead Land Cruiser so when other vehicles couldn’t get through we could still function and shoot) -much of the shooting just wouldn’t have happened if OEX wasn’t with us.

Photo: A dry place to load film. Note boots on side view mirror. They weren't allowed inside.

And much of the driving would have been pretty messy too. Our local drivers and the actors benefited (we know) from your class, and we could see it on the film when they had to drive Russian and Chinese 4x4s and 6x6s for reenactments. They had to look like they had driven those vehicles for years, and they did.

Not to mention the old “bridge out on the last day of shooting” trick. You guys got film crew, vehicles and talent over the river and up some marginal roads – we would have been standing and looking at the broken roadway if OEX hadn’t taken over and taken us all across. 

Photo: A leech finds a meal on Mr. Elfstrom.

Thanks again,

Brian Breger

Producer