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Step Into the Unknown . . .

When the call comes in, paramedics never know what’s waiting for them.

A heart attack. A crash. A child in danger. A stranger’s worst day. A life hanging in the balance.

From executive producers Randolph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe, Steve Buscemi, and the director of BURN, this groundbreaking documentary spends a year with a diverse group of paramedics around the U.S. as they confront the physical danger, emotional weight, and impossible pressure of a job most people only glimpse from the side of the road.

They help people through crisis. They absorb panic, pain, fear, and loss. Then they go home and try to be parents, partners, friends, and ordinary people.

This is a film about the cost of saving lives, and the courage it takes to keep showing up. INTO THE UNKNOWN takes audiences inside the ambulance and beyond the uniform to reveal the human beings who risk everything when the rest of us need help most.

Producers’ Note

For twenty years, Kevin Tighe and I have discussed producing a documentary on Paramedics. We felt we did not want it to be just about its history. We also wanted to examine where this life-saving system is today, and where we think it will be in the future. We feel we have put together a powerful team to help realize that dream.

In order to tell an epic story that would encompass the Paramedic’s past to future, we needed to surround ourselves with men and women who are, not only highly respected in this field, but have had a hand in shaping the EMS system we have and benefit from today.

The three qualities Paramedics all seem to have are, courage, compassion and caring. The men and women who sit on our board have all displayed these qualities by dedicating their lives to the health and wellbeing of others. As a result, they have had a direct hand in shaping a noble profession.

We are eager to share with the public the story of the Paramedic.

-Randy