Uncharted Territory, LLC is an American film production company based in

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. UT was founded in 1999 by

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winning visual effects supervisor and producer

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and

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winning VFX supervisor and producer

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. Engel and Weigert usually serve as producers or co-producers and visual effects supervisors on the company's projects. With their first production, the adventure movie ''

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'' in 2001, UT started a new paradigm for handling visual effects. Instead of contracting out to other established VFX houses, UT would build up a VFX crew from scratch by selecting freelance artists, managers and programmers and creating the necessary infrastructure (hardware and software), custom tailored to a single project only. This in-house VFX crew has included (as in the case of the production ''

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'') as many as 100 people. The company has had for a short term a subsidiary in

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: Uncharted Territory GmbH.

Overall-work productions

* ''

'' (2003) * '' Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King'' (2004) * '' The Triangle'' (2005)

Visual effects productions

* ''

'' (2003) * '' Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King'' (2004) * ''

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'' (2004) * '' The Triangle'' (2005) * ''

'' (2009) * ''

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'' (2011) * ''

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'' (2013) * '' Independence Day: Resurgence'' (2016)

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