About Us
Early cartographers used terra incognita to delineate unknown or unexplored lands—most notably much of Africa below the equator and remote parts of the New World. In the opinion of Daniel J. Boorstin, author of The Discoverers, these two words are “the most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge.” Terra Incognita Films continues this voyage of discovery, producing documentaries that explore the unexplored, films that map the unknown territories of our current knowledge—be they events or individuals or ideas.
Ron Lamothe, founder of Terra Incognita Films, was born in 1968 and grew up in the small New England town of Lunenburg, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. in 1990 from Tufts University, where he studied clinical psychology and political science. Following a 1990-1991 trip through Africa, Ron moved to Washington, DC, where he taught high school for three years. After a 1995 sojourn in Prague, he relocated to Leverett, Massachusetts, and soon thereafter enrolled as a graduate student in history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. It was here that he also discovered documentary filmmaking, and in 2000-2001 began production on The Political Dr. Seuss. Ron moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2003, in order to study African history at Boston University, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate. In 2004 The Political Dr. Seuss aired on the PBS series Independent Lens. His latest film, The Call of the Wild, was released in September 2007. In addition to his filmmaking and academic work, he teaches introductory college courses in digital video production, most recently at Clark University, Holy Cross, and Emerson College. Ron currently lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with his wife Karen and two daughters, Madeleine and Parker.
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