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3 Sponsors 4 Schedule 7 Walking directions between DoubleTree and AMC Navy Pier IMAX Theater 10 Professional development sessions GSCA CONTACTS 12 New films Giant Screen Cinema 18 Trailers Association 20 Films in production 624 Holly Springs Road, Suite 243 Holly Springs, NC 27540 U.S. 32 Projects in development giantscreencinema.com 40 Technical sessions facebook.com/giantscreencinema Marketing symposium twitter.com/gsca 44 linkedin.com/groups/1046547 46 Trade show exhibitors Tammy Seldon 52 Session presenters Executive Director Office: 1-919-346-1123 ADVERTISING INDEX Mobile: 1-703-855-3699 AEOS inside front cover, 1 [email protected] Christie Digital inside back cover Kelly Germain Foxfire Interactive Corp. 19 Director of Membership and GSCA 39 Communications ImagesInSound 43 Office: 1-651-917-1080 IMAX Corporation 23, 33 Mobile: 1-651-270-4915 MacGillivray Freeman Films 30, 31 [email protected] nWave Pictures Distribution back cover Eileen Pheiffer SK Films 8, 9 Accounting Strong/MDI Screen Systems 25 Office: 1-314-725-7020 Technicolor 36 Mobile: 1-314-708-0448 Ushio America 41 [email protected] Visceral Image Productions 35
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Sunday, September 24: Pre-conference Day TIME EVENT LOCATION Registration and Information, sponsored by 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm DoubleTree: State Foyer The Stephen Low Company Monday, September 25: Pre-Conference Day TIME EVENT LOCATION Registration and Information, sponsored by 8:00 am - 8:00 pm DoubleTree: State Foyer The Stephen Low Company 8:00 am - 10:00 pm Film Rehearsals (see GSCA desk for schedule) Navy Pier IMAX 8:00 am - 10:45 am Board Meeting (with breakfast; board members only) DoubleTree: State Committee Meetings DoubleTree 11:00 am - 12:45 pm • Event Planning • St. Clair • Member Services • Huron Committee Meetings DoubleTree 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm • Technical • St. Clair • Industry Development • Huron 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Giant Screen 101 Professional Development Session DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm 3D Film Interest Group (by invitation only) DoubleTree: Huron 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Distributors’ Interest Group (by invitation only) DoubleTree: St. Clair First-Timer and New Member Reception (by invitation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm DoubleTree: State only), sponsored by D3D Cinema and Christie TEA Mixer Reception, sponsored by Themed DoubleTree: State and State 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Entertainment Association. All are welcome! Foyer
Tuesday, September 26: Conference Day 1 TIME EVENT LOCATION 7:30 am - 8:00 am Walk to Navy Pier IMAX Registration and Information, sponsored by 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Navy Pier IMAX The Stephen Low Company 8:00 am - 8:45 am Projects in Development, sponsored by IMAX Navy Pier IMAX 8:45 am - 9:30 am Film 1: Extreme Weather Navy Pier IMAX 9:30 am - 10:15 am Film 2: Conquest of the Skies 3D Navy Pier IMAX 10:15 am - 10:30 am Break 10:30 am - 11:15 am Film 3: Mysteries of China Navy Pier IMAX 11:15 am - 12:00 pm Film 4: Planet Power (fine cut) Navy Pier IMAX 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm Trailers Navy Pier IMAX 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch on your own 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm Awards rehearsal (by invitation only) DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 1:30 pm - 4:15 pm Films in Production, sponsored by IMAX Navy Pier IMAX 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Film 5: America’s Musical Journey (rough cut) Navy Pier IMAX 5:00 pm Walk back to DoubleTree 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm GSCA Achievement Awards, sponsored by IMAX DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm GSCA Achievement Awards Reception, DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom sponsored by IMAX
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TIME EVENT LOCATION Registration and Information, sponsored by 8:30 am – 12:30 pm DoubleTree: State Foyer The Stephen Low Company 8:30 am - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast DoubleTree: State Foyer Champion-Led, Cross Collaboration for Best Success 9:00 am - 10:15 am professional development session, sponsored by DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom Destination Cinema 10:15 am - 10:30 am Break DoubleTree: State Foyer Is It More Than Just a Film? How Do We Know? professional 10:30 am - 11:45 am DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom development session, sponsored by Destination Cinema Member meeting and lunch, sponsored by nWave 11:45 am - 1:00 pm DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom Pictures Distribution 1:00 pm Walk to Navy Pier IMAX theater Registration and Information, sponsored by 1:30 pm - 6:30 pm Navy Pier IMAX The Stephen Low Company 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Technical Session Navy Pier IMAX 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Break 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm Film 6: Incredible Predators Navy Pier IMAX 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Film 7: Aircraft Carrier: Guardians of the Sea Navy Pier IMAX 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm Break 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm Film 8: Hearst Castle: Building the Dream Navy Pier IMAX 5:45 pm - 6:30 pm Film 9: Backyard Wilderness (rough cut) Navy Pier IMAX 6:30 pm - 7:15 pm Film 10: Volcanoes (rough cut) Navy Pier IMAX
Thursday, September 28: Conference Day 3 TIME EVENT LOCATION DOME SCREEN: MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY 6:45 am Buses will depart DoubleTree for MSI for dome screenings Registration and Information, sponsored by Museum of Science & 7:10 am - 1:00 pm The Stephen Low Company Industry (MSI) 7:10 am - 7:30 am Welcome MSI 7:30 am - 8:15 am Dome film 1: Hurricane MSI 8:15 am - 9:00 am Dome film 2: Amazon Adventure MSI 9:00 am - 9:45 am Dome film 3: Dream Big: Engineering Our World MSI 9:45 am - 10:00 am Break MSI 10:00 am - 11:30 am Technical Session (dome version) MSI 11:30 am - 12:20 pm Lunch, sponsored by D3D Cinema MSI: Rosenwald Room Dome film 4: Global Soundscapes: Mission to Record 12:25 pm - 1:05 pm MSI the Earth 1:15 pm - 1:45 pm Buses return to Navy Pier and DoubleTree FLAT SCREEN: AMC NAVY PIER IMAX THEATER 9:15 am Walk to Navy Pier IMAX Registration and Information, sponsored by 9:30 am - 3:00 pm Navy Pier IMAX The Stephen Low Company 9:45 am - 10:30 am Film 11: Hurricane Navy Pier IMAX 10:30 am - 11:15 am Film 12: Dream Big: Engineering Our World Navy Pier IMAX 11:15 am - 12:00 pm Film 13: Amazon Adventure Navy Pier IMAX 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch on your own
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Thursday, September 28: Conference Day 3 (cont.)
TIME EVENT LOCATION 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm Film 14: The Search for Life in Space Navy Pier IMAX 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm Film 15: The Trolley That Saves the World Navy Pier IMAX 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Film 16: We, The Marines Navy Pier IMAX 3:45 pm Walk to DoubleTree ALL DELEGATES Registration and information, sponsored by 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm DoubleTree: State Foyer The Stephen Low Company 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Trade show with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm GSCA Board Meeting and Dinner (board members only) DoubleTree: State
Friday, September 29: Marketing Symposium TIME EVENT LOCATION 7:30 am – 8:00 am Continental Breakfast, sponsored by AEOS Theaters DoubleTree: State Foyer Registration and information, sponsored by 7:30 am - 5:00 pm DoubleTree: State Foyer The Stephen Low Company 8:00 am – 8:30 am Welcome and Introductions DoubleTree: State Foyer PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE 8:30 am – 9:15 am Seeing the Forest and the Trees DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom PART 2: AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT 9:15 am – 9:30 am Storytelling Performance DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 9:30 am – 10:00 am How to Find Audiences (You Already Have!) DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 10:00 am – 10:15 am Break 10:15 am – 10:30 am 15 Audience Engagement Ideas in 15 Minutes DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 10:30 am – 11:00 am Connecting with New Audiences DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 11:00 am – 11:30 am Turn Your Visitors Into Marketers DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 11:30 am – 12:00 pm Q&A with Audience Engagement Speakers DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch, sponsored by AEOS Theaters DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom PART 3: MAXIMIZING REVENUE 1:00 pm – 1:15 pm Box Office Rally DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 1:15 pm – 1:30 pm 15 Ways to Stretch Your Marketing Budget in 15 Minutes DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Practical (and Creative) Ways to Increase Ticket Revenue DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Q&A with Maximizing Revenue Speakers DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Break PART 4: DIGITAL MARKETING TIPS AND TRICKS 2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Social Media Tips and Trends DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 3:15 pm – 3:45 pm The Power of Search DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm Email Gold DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom 4:15 pm – 4:45 pm Q&A with Digital Marketing Speakers DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom CLOSING 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Closing Remarks DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom
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DOUBLETREE HILTON WALKING DIRECTIONS TO AMC NAVY PIER MAGNIFICENT MILE IMAX THEATER Total distance: is .6 mile (.9 kilometer) 300 E Ohio St Chicago, IL 60611 1. Exit the DoubleTree main able to see the Navy Pier 312-787-6100 door on Ohio Street. ferris wheel once you 2. Take a left out the door are in the park, so keep AMC NAVY PIER and walk east on Ohio walking toward that. IMAX THEATER Street. If you pass a 6. At the end of the park, 700 E Grand Ave grocery store called cross Ohio Street onto Chicago, IL 60611 Bockwinkel’s on your left East Grand Avenue. 312-281-7095 just past the hotel, you’re 7. Cross Grand Avenue and headed in the right di- continue walking east on MUSEUM OF SCIENCE rection. Grand toward the pier. AND INDUSTRY 3. Continue on Ohio for 1.5 8 Cross N Streeter Drive 5700 S Lake Shore blocks until you get to and enter the Navy Pier Drive the pedestrian tunnel building through the Chicago, IL 60637 that goes under Lake doors on the west end 773-684-1414 Shore Drive. of the building. It’s the 4. Take the steps/ramp end closest to you as you down to the tunnel. approach the pier. 5. Exit the tunnel and 9. The IMAX Theater is on continue walking straight the left just a few yards through Jane Addams down the main corridor Memorial Park. You’ll be of the building.
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“Breathtaking detail and compelling plot … the images inspire wonder.” “Visual majesty … and compelling “Fascinating and narrative.” inspiring tale … visually stunning.”
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Giant Screen 101 THE IMAX THEATER AT THE Monday, September 25 HEART OF THE MUSEUM 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm PRESENTER: Pam Hartley, Vice President, DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom Play Initiatives, Marbles Kids Museum & Theater SESSION ORGANIZER: Diane Carlson, Giant Screen Cinema Consulting At Marbles Kids Museum, staff have worked over the last 5+ years to unite the museum MODERATOR: Paul Wild, Theatre Director, IMAX Victoria in the Royal BC Museum, and theater campus around the mission, a Victoria, British Columbia, Canada unified team culture and playful guest experience. This has resulted in the IMAX Giant screen veterans and newcomers Theater being fully integrated into the heart have high praise for this ongoing series of the museum’s mission, programming and of discussions with knowledgeable and operations. Learn how this integrated approachable industry experts. This approach results in educational programs session is a great kick off to the conference that extend the impact of films, promotions and is a safe and comfortable space for all that engage guests and the community, a questions. Presenters include a filmmaker, staffing model that maximizes talent, and film distributor, theater exhibitor and an organizational culture that embraces the industry consultants. Audience members potential of giant screen films to spark often contribute their perspectives as well. imagination, discovery and learning. It is also a great way to start networking. CHOOSING A DISTRIBUTOR GS101 PRESENTATIONS FOR YOUR GIANT SCREEN FILM PRESENTER: Daniel Ferguson, Producer/ A 360-DEGREE VIEW OF Director, Cosmic Picture GIANT SCREEN ECONOMICS So you’ve finally almost finished your giant PRESENTER: Paul Fraser, President, screen film project, or perhaps you’re Blaze Cineworks considering making one. You want to get it Paul Fraser will present a 360-degree view in front of the biggest audience possible, of the giant screen film economic model. but this raises all kinds of questions. Do you He will show the financial impact of various self-distribute or go with an established film success scenarios from the perspective distribution company? What are the pitfalls of three key stakeholders: the producer, of each? In addition to the financial the distributor, and the theater. He will considerations, what about positioning? also weave into his presentation some key Artistic control over marketing? Satisfying findings from the recent Blaze Cineworks a sponsor or investor? Daniel Ferguson 2017 Theater Programming Survey. And (director of Jerusalem and Superpower in time for this conference, we will upload Dogs and former distributor with Primesco to the GSCA website a new “Glossary of Communications) has worked with several Terms” for newcomers to the industry different models and will share the insight especially, with definitions of some film, he has gained while navigating the theater, and technology terms that will ever-changing giant screen ecosystem. likely surface during this session.
10 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND exhibition. Champion leadership can THE UGLY OF DISTRIBUTOR- draw upon resources and expertise from EXHIBITOR RELATIONS different teams within the institution, such PRESENTER: Mark Katz, SVP Film as marketing, education and exhibits, Distribution and Theater Development, creating a united campaign-approach to D3D Cinema and Giant Screen Films launching a film. This event-style approach to programming works for some of the In a business that has seen its fair share of most successful museums in our industry. challenges, especially in recent years, the relationship between a distributor and exhibitor remains one of the most important. Is It More Than Just a It’s not just about sales, although that is Film? How Do We Know? always an important part. It is, despite the Wednesday, September 27 cliché, mostly about relationships. After 30 10:30 am - 11:45 am years in film distribution, and, though not DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom by design, having worked for IMAX MODERATOR: Gary M. Timko, Ph.D., Senior Corporation, Sony Pictures, nWave Research Associate, Center for Research Pictures, National Geographic, MacGillivray and Evaluation at COSI Freeman and Giant Screen Films, Mark Katz PANELISTS: Barbara Flagg, Ph.D., Consultant, has seen and heard a thing or two about Multimedia Research; Valentine Kass, distributor/exhibitor relationships. So, let’s National Science Foundation; Valerie talk about this relationship and how it has Knight-Williams, Ed.D., Knight Williams changed over the years yet also remained Inc.; Brad Lisle, Foxfire Interactive the same—and why it is still so important. When watching a film on the giant screen, Champion-Led, what types of learning take place? To what extent do viewers increase their curiosity Cross Collaboration about a topic, become inspired or motivated for Best Success to action, or want to see more types of Wednesday, September 27 films like the one they just watched? How 9:00 am - 10:15 am do we measure and collect data to provide DoubleTree: LaSalle Ballroom evidence of this impact and the value of the MODERATOR: Mary Jane Dodge, giant screen experience? How do we justify MacGillivray Freeman Films the investment? This session is a facilitated discussion with expert panelists who will PANELISTS: Diane Carlson, Giant Screen Cinema Consulting; Mike Day, Science share their thoughts and experiences about Museum of Minnesota; Chris Hurtubise, how they have collected data to produce COSI; Marlene Janetos, Museum of the types of evidence that show that a Discovery and Science; Edgar Rodriguez, giant screen film can produce measurable Central Cultural Tijuana impact. Each panelist will describe specific examples and approaches they have used This panel discussion will showcase the best and lessons learned. The session is intended examples of institutions that draw from a to stimulate thought among filmmakers variety of departments within their institutions and producers, funders, and theater operators to leverage maximum resources for theater of approaches they can take to demonstrate success. Finding a senior level “champion” that a film is more than just a film. is critical to the ultimate success of film
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WT = working title AIRCRAFT CARRIER: [email protected] GUARDIANS OF WEBSITE: amazonadventurefilm.com THE SEA Amazon Adventure tells the epic, true Presented in 3D story of explorer Henry Bates’ 11-year RELEASE: May 26, 2017 journey through the visually stunning and FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, bio-diverse Amazon rainforest as a young DCI-compliant Digital, man who risks his life for science. Experience IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser the compelling clues Bates unearths in his LENGTH: 43:15 major science discovery of the rare PRODUCER: K2 Films and Giant Screen Films phenomenon of mimicry, whereby certain DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications and animals adopt the look of others which Giant Screen Films helps them deceive predators and gain an CONTACT: Mark Kresser, advantage to survive. Bates, the scientific [email protected] hero you’ve likely never heard of, made WEBSITE: aircraftcarrierfilm.com other crucial contributions: identifying The mission to protect and defend the 8,000 species new to science, most world’s oceans has become far more importantly, putting forward the first ever complex and challenging in recent years, case for the creation of a new species and naval aviation has become increasingly which Charles Darwin called the “beautiful vital to success. One of the greatest proof” for his theory of Natural Selection. engineering feats in naval maritime history, Viewers will be wowed by over 80 different the modern Nimitz-class carrier is a animals, mind-boggling examples of masterpiece of technology, and the flagship camouflage and mimicry and inspired by of the fleet. With RIMPAC, the world’s Bates’ endless curiosity and determination largest and most comprehensive international to explore and understand the natural maritime training exercise providing a world around him. stunning visual context for the story, find yourself aboard the USS Ronald Reagan AMERICA’S alongside the 5,000 highly skilled sea and MUSICAL JOURNEY, air personnel conducting flight operations ROUGH CUT in the midst of the simulated war exercises Presented in 2D taking place there. Rarely has there been a RELEASE: February 2018 topic so visually suited and compelling for FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX® and other giant screen theaters. 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, AMAZON IMAX Laser, Dome- ADVENTURE customized 15/70, Fulldome digital LENGTH: 40:00 Presented in 3D PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray RELEASE: April 18, 2017 Freeman Films FORMATS: 3D, 15/70, CONTACT: Patty Collins, DCI-compliant Digital, [email protected] IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 Jazz, blues, zydeco, old time country LENGTH: 45:29 music and other variations on America’s PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films musical heritage are at the heart of CONTACT: Amber Hawtin & Jonathan Barker, MacGillivray Freeman’s America’s Musical
12 Journey, a giant screen film the forest floor and pond bottom, to show that celebrates the unique diversity of nature and its habitats, in rare intimacy. cultures and creative risk-taking that The human story focuses on a young girl’s characterize America. The film follows awakening to the intricacies and joys of singer/songwriter Aloe Blacc as he traces nature. She and her modern family, living Louis Armstrong’s footsteps through the next to the woods, are at first blind to the colorful locales and cultures where real-life spectacle around them, absorbed America’s music was born, in iconic cities by an array of electronic devices in their busy like New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, New lifestyle. The film reminds us that Wi-Fi is York City, Nashville, Miami and more. At not the only connection that matters. each stop, audiences will experience uniquely American adventures that CONQUEST OF THE SKIES embody the country’s trailblazing spirit— Presented in 3D paddle-wheel boating up the Mississippi RELEASE: Spring 2017 Delta, flash mob dancing in Chicago or FORMATS: 2D and 3D, group skydiving above Memphis—in A story 320 million 15/70, DCI-compliant years in the making scenes shot specifically for the giant Digital, IMAX Digital, screen. Along the way, audiences will meet IMAX Laser, Dome- the artists, music makers, storytellers and customized 15/70,
SERENGETI ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS A COLOSSUS PRODUCTIONS FILM IN ASSOCIATION WITH SKY 3D “CONQUEST OF THE SKIES 3D” NARRATOR MARK BONNAR VFX SUPERVISOR JAMES PROSSER CINEMATOGRAPHER PAUL WILLIAMS COMPOSER GRAHAM HADFIELD Fulldome digital innovators who are shaping America’s EDITOR PETER MILLER DIRECTOR DAVID LEE SUPERVISING PRODUCER MIKE DAVIS PRODUCER ANTHONY GEFFEN WWW.SERENGETIENTERTAINMENT.COM
COTSkies_1Sheet_AW.indd 1 22/11/2016 13:42 LENGTH: 39:43 culture today. (20:00-version also available) BACKYARD PRODUCER: Colossus Productions WILDERNESS DISTRIBUTOR: Serengeti Entertainment (WT), ROUGH CUT CONTACT: Melissa Williams, [email protected] Presented in 2D The ability to fly is one of the greatest RELEASE: Spring 2018 FORMATS: 2D and 3D, wonders in the natural world. Millions of DCI-compliant Digital, creatures soar above our heads today. But IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, how did animals make the incredible Dome-customized 15/70 transition from land to air? Conquest of the LENGTH: 42:00 Skies uses the very latest science and PRODUCER: Arise Media stunning special effects to uncover the DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films 320-million-year story of flight—and it’s CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, [email protected] not simply about birds. Using advanced 3D Backyard Wilderness reveals the filming technology we capture the beauty unexpected wonders of nature that take and excitement of the whole world of place right under our noses in backyards flying creatures, from the fastest predatory and communities across North America. falcons to the most acrobatic of insects, Spanning a seasonal year around a suburban night flyers like owls and bats, and the home within commuting distance of New soaring and gliding specialists capable of York City, the film displays a stunning traveling huge distances. Audiences will array of unique wildlife activity from enter the truly amazing world of these astounding macro shots to amazing family animal aviators, and leave the theater both behaviours, including mothers with stunned by the spectacle and thrilled by offspring—all captured by cameras mounted the story of how animals rose up and inside dens and nests, and moving along conquered the skies.
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DREAM BIG: customized 15/70, Fulldome digital ENGINEERING LENGTH: 38:59 OUR WORLD PRODUCER: National Geographic and Presented in 3D Sean Casey RELEASE: February 17, DISTRIBUTOR: National Geographic 2017 CONTACT: Antonietta Monteleone, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, [email protected] 15/70, DCI-compliant Weather is one of the most dynamic forces Digital, IMAX Digital, shaping our planet, but now it’s more IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, extreme and complex than ever. Extreme Fulldome digital Weather takes us to the frontlines where LENGTH: 42:20 few have gone. Travel to the edge of PRODUCER: MacGillivray Freeman Films 300-foot tall glaciers collapsing, to the DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films front lines of massive wildfires, directly in Distribution Company the path of deadly, yet mesmerizing tornadoes. CONTACT: Patty Collins, Follow researchers and everyday heroes [email protected] as they uncover surprising connections to WEBSITE: dreambigfilm.com help us understand and adapt to our Narrated by Academy Award® winner ever-changing weather. Jeff Bridges, Dream Big: Engineering Our World transforms how we think about GLOBAL engineering. From the Great Wall of China SOUNDSCAPES: and the world’s tallest buildings to MISSION TO underwater robots, solar cars and smart, RECORD THE sustainable cities, Dream Big celebrates EARTH the human ingenuity behind engineering Presented in 2D marvels big and small, and shows how RELEASE: October 2017 engineers push the limits of innovation in FORMATS: 2D, DCI- unexpected and amazing ways. With its compliant Digital, inspiring personal stories and extraordinary IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Fulldome visuals for the world’s largest screens, Digital, D3D dome Dream Big reveals the compassion and LENGTH: 40:00 (20-25 minute short creativity that drive engineers to create version is also available in flat and better lives for people and a more sustainable fulldome and D3D’s digital dome) PRODUCER: Foxfire Interactive, Purdue future for us all. Dream Big is a MacGillivray University, and Masters Digital Freeman film produced in partnership with DISTRIBUTOR: Foxfire Interactive American Society of Civil Engineers and CONTACT: Brad Lisle, | presented by Bechtel Corporation. [email protected] WEBSITE: SoundscapeShow.com EXTREME WEATHER Our world is full of sound! Global Soundscapes takes you on an ear-opening Presented in 3D journey into the science of sound and the RELEASE: October 2016 FORMATS: 2D and 3D, emerging field of soundscape ecology. 15/70, DCI-compliant Explore basic acoustics in this educator-led Digital, IMAX Digital, participatory theater experience with IMAX Laser, Dome- incredible slow-motion footage of pulsating
14 musical instruments, vibrating vocal HURRICANE, A chords, and more. Investigate the dramatic WIND ODYSSEY soundscapes of Costa Rica’s rainforests, Presented in 3D Hawaii’s coral reefs, and Mongolia’s vast RELEASE: December 1, grasslands. Learn how animals use sounds 2016 to survive and communicate in lush, but FORMATS: 2D and 3D, threatened environments. Discover what DCI-compliant Digital, soundscapes tell us about the health of our IMAX Digital, IMAX planet. With Global Soundscapes’ unique Laser, Fulldome Digital format—combining giant screen imagery, LENGTH: 39:50 and 20:00 surround sound, and live presentation— PRODUCER: Ouragan Film you’ll hear the Earth in a whole new way! DISTRIBUTOR: nWave Pictures Distribution CONTACT: Janine Baker, [email protected], HEARST CASTLE: Jennifer Lee Hackett,[email protected] BUILDING THE WEBSITE: hurricane.nwave.com DREAM This is the true story of a 15,000-kilometre Presented in 2D journey in the footsteps of one of the most RELEASE: In release devastating natural events on our planet: FORMATS: 2D, DCI- the Atlantic Hurricane. Our protagonist is compliant Digital, IMAX both shatteringly destructive and vital to Digital, IMAX Laser life on earth. A mere breeze at its conception, LENGTH: 38:42 as it sweeps over the African Sahel it becomes PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Destination Cinema Inc. a life-giving monsoon, before setting out CONTACT: Paul Wild, across the Atlantic as a deepening depression. [email protected] The hurricane is the film’s main character. Hearst Castle: Building the Dream tells the The supporting cast—the men, women, story of a visionary, William Randolph plants and animals that it encounters on Hearst, and the enchanted castle that he its journey and affects in some way, for built on a hilltop along California’s central better or for worse. Serene and exquisitely coast. In 1893, Hearst, then 10, traveled beautiful from space, at ground level in the with his mother to Europe, “the Grand face of the screaming wind, Hurricane is Tour,” they called it. In English, Germany, nothing less than terrifying. Switzerland and Italy, young William became fascinated with the artwork, INCREDIBLE sculpture, glassworks and everyday PREDATORS artifacts he saw. The images he saw there Presented in 3D stayed with him into adulthood. Fifty years RELEASE: January 2017 later—after building one of the greatest FORMATS: 2D and 3D, media empires in the world and creating DCI-compliant Digital, a fortune—Hearst and an odds-defying IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser architect, Julia Morgan, built an enchanted LENGTH: 42:04 (20:00- castle for the ages, exquisite in design, and version also available) filled with artistic treasures throughout. A PRODUCER: Silverback Films and BBC Earth in association with Giant Screen Films dream place, and mecca for stars of the DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth and Giant Screen Films silver screen. This amazing story serves as CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] an example to all of us to honor our own WEBSITE: BBCEarth.com/IncrediblePredators dreams, and make them a reality.
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Incredible Predators deconstructs the when a fierce warrior brought together world of major predators as never before, a warring nation and how an accidental taking an intimate look at the remarkable discovery changed everything we know strategies they use to succeed. Advanced about China’s past. The discovery of the filming techniques expose the planet’s top Terracotta Warriors and the Tomb of predators in extraordinary footage, putting the First Emperor offers a unique time the audience right beside them as they capsule into the past, revealing many hunt—on land, under the sea or in the air. things about this great country, which Far from a film about the kill, instead the we use to tell a larger story of the growth audience will be emotionally engaged with of China into a true superpower. From the key characters, learning how these modern China to ancient China and back supreme species must be at the very peak again, the film is a visual adventure, using of performance to have any chance of beautiful aerial photography and cutting- success. Their backstory will be a key part edge time-lapse techniques to reveal of the narrative; to understand a cheetah’s great majesty, tragedy, splendor and dilemma you must meet her hungry cubs. growth in a nation that continues to Top predators occupy an apex position excel quickly into the future. within the habitats they dominate and, alongside dramatic animal behaviour, PLANET POWER, Incredible Predators reveals the unique FINE CUT relationship between predators and prey Formerly titled Full Charge as a fundamental building block of ecology. Presented in 3D RELEASE: 2018 MYSTERIES FORMATS: 2D and 3D, OF CHINA DCI-compliant Digital, Presented in 3D IMAX Digital, IMAX RELEASE: October 7, 2016 Laser, Dome-customized FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, Fulldome digital 15/70, DCI-compliant LENGTH: 38:29 Digital, IMAX Digital, PRODUCER: N3D Land IMAX Laser, Dome- DISTRIBUTOR: nWave Pictures Distribution customized 15/70 CONTACT: Janine Baker, [email protected]; LENGTH: 37:37 (20:00-version also available) Jennifer Lee Hackett, [email protected] PRODUCER: Giant Screen Films, Top WEBSITE: planetpower-thefilm.com Production China, and Expanded Eye Planet Power tells the story of electricity, Entertainment from the first spark created by man’s DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films hand to the largest power plants, the CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] age of miracles to that of industry, from Mysteries of China captures one of the Benjamin Franklin’s kite to Solar Impulse, great archaeological events of the the first solar-powered plane capable modern age, telling the story of ancient of perpetual flight. Thus, it is also a story China, the First Emperor, and the literal of pioneers, scientists and inventors, foundation of the China we know today. one that began 200 years ago, driven Through the lens of this groundbreaking by innovation. Today, electricity is discovery, we explore an ancient time indispensable to mankind. Energy of
16 choice for innovation and development, Life in Space will make you re-examine electricity is also the energy of our future, such fundamental questions as: “Are we as long as it is produced in a cleaner alone?” The Search for Life in Space is a and more sustainable way. By mixing December Media film produced in traditional animation and CGI to association with Film Victoria Australia spectacular aerial shots, Planet Power and Swinburne University of Technology. shows how renewable energy can help us fight climate change while improving THE TROLLEY our quality of life and protecting the THAT SAVES environment. Now, thanks to clean THE WORLD technologies, the greatest forces of Presented in 2D nature can help make our planet cooler RELEASE: September 2017 and our future better. FORMATS: 2D, DCI- compliant Digital, IMAX THE SEARCH FOR Digital, IMAX Laser, IMAX LIFE IN SPACE Laser 12.0 LENGTH:45:44 Presented in 3D PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: The Stephen Low RELEASE: October 7, 2016 Company FORMATS: 2D and 3D, CONTACT: Pietro Serapiglia, 15/70, DCI-compliant [email protected] Digital, IMAX Digital, WEBSITE: www.stephenlow.com IMAX Laser, Dome- customized 15/70, The Trolley That Saves the World propels Fulldome digital giant screen audiences through the great LENGTH: 32:00 cities of the globe to tell the story of one PRODUCER: December Media of civilization’s most remarkable DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films inventions. The electric streetcar, tram or CONTACT: Patty Collins, trolley was a ride that changed everything. [email protected] Across a century-and-a-half, trolleys WEBSITE: searchforlifeinspace.com/ carried billions of people to work and play Journey from the depths of the Pacific and home again. Gifted with extreme Ocean into the far reaches of space on a efficiency and an egalitarian outlook, the quest to find something that changes device helped revitalize and re-build the everything—signs of life, somewhere else in urban landscape. The Trolley That Saves the universe. With stunning imagery from the World follows this unique and evolving the world’s most powerful telescopes, this machine: from its perfection at the hands new giant screen film takes audiences from of a 19th century inventor and its the surface of Mars and the icy moons of explosive global adoption, to its Jupiter and Saturn, to the extreme lava engagement in two World Wars; from its fields of Hawaii and the thermal vents deep devastating collision with the automobile beneath the sea. In these harsh environments, age to its 21st century renaissance. Step astrobiologists look for clues to how life aboard the talented electric trolley for a takes hold. As this immersive adventure bell-ringing musical ride across the eras into the universe reveals the possibility of and through 34 cities and 15 countries. life on planets like our own, The Search for
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VOLCANOES AMAZING MIGHTY (WT), ROUGH MICRO MONSTERS CUT RELEASE: January 2016 Presented in 2D FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant RELEASE: Spring 2018 Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- FORMATS: 2D and 3D, customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital DCI-compliant Digital, LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 IMAX Digital, IMAX PRODUCER: Colossus Productions Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 DISTRIBUTOR: Serengeti Entertainment LENGTH: 40:00 CONTACT: Melissa Williams, PRODUCER: Digital Crossing Films [email protected] DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, [email protected] Super powers exist. Right here on Earth. And they are beneath our feet. They Volcanoes—The Fires of Creation is a include beetles that shoot chemical fire and tale of science, culture, and thrilling lift enormous weights; scorpions that glow adventure. Audiences will be on the edge in the dark with astonishing crushing of their seats as our scientists and powers; spiders that can make themselves explorers discover molten worlds and virtually invisible and hypnotise their prey; erupting craters in this adrenaline-filled, even a bug that can transform itself into immersive experience that only IMAX®/ Giant Screen films can provide. Earth is a planet born of fire. For billions of years volcanoes have helped create the world we know. From the continents to the air CONTACT: Patty Collins, we breathe, and even life itself, all have [email protected] their origins in fire. These processes are WEBSITE: wethemarinesfilm.com still creating incredible ecosystems and We, The Marines is an action-packed, wildlife habitats today. With over 500 giant screen film that immerses audiences active volcanoes, our Earth is bursting at in the unparalleled experience of the seams with these forces of mass becoming and serving as a member of construction. The story of volcanoes is the U.S. Marine Corps. Narrated by the story of Earth’s creation, and the Academy Award-winning actor and story of us. former marine Gene Hackman, the film uses the giant screen to honor the WE, THE MARINES dedication, the service and the first-hand experiences that create the undeniable Presented in 2D bonds among America’s “first RELEASE: July 2017 responders.” The result is an inspirational FORMATS: 2D, DCI- and moving tribute to the lives and compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, legacy of the men and women who honor Fulldome digital and defend our country. Produced in LENGTH: 40:00 association with the Marine Corps PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Heritage Foundation and the National Freeman Films Museum of the Marine Corps.
18 another creature entirely. Prepare to be magical and engaging film, audiences get amazed in this 3D giant screen adventure to follow one lucky visitor who stays in exploring the hidden world of the super- the museum after dark, when the most powered bugs. fascinating extinct prehistoric creatures rise MUSEUM ALIVE 3D again. Dinosaurs, a sabre-tooth tiger, giant birds and monster reptiles escape their RELEASE: January 2016 display cases, shake off the dust and LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 explore the museum, by means of stunning FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant special effects. And far from being just Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- fantasy, everything in Museum Alive 3D is customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital firmly rooted in the latest science, through PRODUCER: Colossus Productions a unique collaboration between leading DISTRIBUTOR: Serengeti Entertainment paleontologists and award-winning CGI CONTACT: Melissa Williams, artists. Audiences will be treated to a [email protected] thrilling, spectacular film that both educates The fantasy that drives sleepovers and fires and entertains—because as the lights go the imagination of every museum visitor is down, the past comes roaring back to life! at the very heart of Museum Alive 3D: what if the exhibits could come to life? In this
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WT = working title Ancient Caves tells the story of a young cave researcher from the United Kingdom, ANCIENT AUSTRALIA (WT) Dr. Gina Moseley, working with a team Presented in 3D from the University of Innsbruck. Dr. RELEASE: February 2018 Moseley, a paleoclimatologist, and her FORMATS: 2D & 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant colleagues venture into caves to retrieve Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, geologic “fingerprints” that reveal the Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital climate history of our planet for the last LENGTH: 40:00 500,000 years. The production will PRODUCER: Wild Pacific Media & capture extreme caving expeditions in Definition Films France, the U.S., the Bahamas, and the DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications CONTACT: Mark Kresser, Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The [email protected] production is being directed by Jonathan Bird in conjunction with MacGillivray Few places on earth remain as wild and Freeman Films and the Giant Dome pristine as the top end of Australia. It’s a Theater Consortium (GDTC). Image land that time forgot—in the dry season capture is being done with a 15/70 film huge bushfires ravage the ancient camera and a RED 8K digital camera. Only landscape and in the wet the world’s the giant screen can deliver the ultimate biggest thunderstorms bring torrential experience and adventure of exploring rain and flooding. These almost Jurassic ancient caves worldwide to uncover the conditions have created some of the intriguing history of our planet. richest wetlands on earth and harbor the oldest rainforests on the planet. They also create the perfect conditions for some of the deadliest creatures on the planet. The largest dinosaurs known to man left their foot prints in these ancient rocks and one of their deadly relatives ANTARCTICA—THE FROZEN still lives here today. Come with us on TIME CAPSULE an epic scientific adventure through Presented in 2D some of the most beautiful landscapes RELEASE: Summer 2018 on earth as we take you deep into salt FORMATS: 2D, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX water crocodile country. Digital, IMAX Laser, Fulldome Digital, 2D 60fps ANCIENT CAVES (WT) LENGTH: 45:00 Presented in 2D PRODUCER: NHK (Japan Broadcasting RELEASE: Fall 2018 Corporation) FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, Dome-customized DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced 15/70 CONTACT: Yuri Sudo, [email protected] LENGTH: 45:00 A team of NHK crew and SETI scientists PRODUCER: Oceanic Research Group, Inc. embark on an expedition to Antarctica to DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films unlock the secrets behind how Earth CONTACT: Jonathan Bird, [email protected] became so full of oxygen. Antarctic underwater lakes are known to hide pristine primordial ecosystem still today.
20 At an ice-covered lake on Antarctica more time in 3D and exclusively for the giant than 100 kilometers away from the screen, the film will reveal why Cuba nearest station, the team bored a hole in continues to stir the imagination of the thick ice and started dives to capture the world. the underwater world in 8K 60fps. In the bottom of the lake an ancient strain of THE DOLPHIN AMBASSADOR (WT) bacteria is still thriving, silently producing Presented in 2D oxygen just as they did in the primordial RELEASE: To be determined sea billions of years ago and forming a FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, mysterious micro-biotic landscape of IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- unearthly beauty; the lake bottom seems customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital LENGTH: 40:00 as if an alien planet. This unique, precious PRODUCER: Millbrand Cinema time capsule of Earth’s history will be DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films presented for the first time ever in CONTACT: Lance Milbrand, stunningly high-resolution video images [email protected] and a higher frame rate. WEBSITE: thedolphinambassador.com CUBA (WT) Come along on a fantastic journey to swim with dolphins and dive the Mesoamerican Presented in 2D Barrier Reef, the world’s second largest RELEASE: Spring 2018 coral reef. This is the story about a special FORMATS: 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- Atlantic bottlenose dolphin named Han customized 15/70 and the ocean he calls home. Han is LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 remarkable, because his life has bridged PRODUCER: Golden Gate 3D in association two worlds. One of living in the wild and with BBC Earth and Giant Screen Films instinctively caring for himself and the DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films other, living within managed care where CONTACT: Tom Rooney, food and companionship is provided. The [email protected] heart of the storyline is that Han and some Cuba tells the powerful story of a land of his buddies are allowed to leave their preserved in time yet poised today on enclosure every day and swim in the open the cusp of dramatic change. The island ocean. What could they encounter along nation’s vibrant culture, meticulously this magnificent reef? Will Han and his maintained colonial architecture, and buddies choose to return to managed care pristine ecosystems all provide a vivid or decide to live out, on their own, in the window into the past. Cuba will transport wild? This freedom of choice is intriguing audiences across breathtaking island and creates a bond between an iconic landscapes, under the ocean surface to marine mammal and mankind. Dolphin dazzling reefs and groundbreaking specialist and star of the MacGillivray scientific research, and into the streets Freeman film Dolphins from 2000, throbbing with music and dance in the Kathleen Dudzinski Ph.D., will be a heart of Havana. Through the eyes of scientific advisor for the project and Cuban artists, historians, and scientists, appear on-camera. People who have audiences will have a rare opportunity to dedicated their lives to working with explore this amazing country at a pivotal dolphins will be highlighted as well as coral moment in its history. Filmed for the first reef animal life and studying its health. The
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project’s working title in 2016 was In the Timed for release on the 50th anniversary Wake of the Dolphin and in 2017 was of the first lunar landing, First Steps is a changed to a title that translates well into direct-cinema historical experience of all languages, The Dolphin Ambassador. the dramatic Apollo 11 mission. With the assistance of NASA and the National ELEPHANT (WT) Archives, and a global team of researchers Presented in 2D and archivists, the film uses never-before- RELEASE: 2019 seen footage from 1969 and tells the story FORMATS: 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX entirely through archival materials; giving Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome-customized audiences a thrilling firsthand experience 15/70, Fullcome Digital of humanity’s first trip to another world. LENGTH: 40:00-45:00 From the Emmy© Award-winning PRODUCER: Wild Expectations Ltd. filmmakers of Dinosaur 13 and CNN Films, DISTRIBUTOR: To be confirmed First Steps will be available Summer 2019. CONTACT: Victoria Stone, [email protected] GREAT BARRIER REEF Experience elephants as you have never Presented in 2D experienced them before. The film is a RELEASE: 2018 visually stunning, intimate story about FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant the most majestic and sentient animals Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, in Africa. It stars a charismatic elephant Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital matriarch and her extraordinary family, LENGTH: 40:00 as they encounter nature at its most PRODUCER: December Media generous and at its most harsh. It is the DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films story of the creatures large and small CONTACT: Patty Collins, that inhabit a watering hole before the [email protected] dry season sends the elephant family Every year millions of visitors travel by on a challenging and heart-wrenching way of fins, flippers and feet to see one of journey. Young and old will fall in love the seven wonders of the natural world: with the elephants and the animals that the Great Barrier Reef—a living treasure share their world. Filmed over 4 years in trove of biodiversity. There is still so much the African bush for the large screen. to learn and knowledge is the key to understanding more about this living FIRST STEPS (WT) Eden. A thriving metropolis populated Presented in 2D by a cast of characters straight out of an RELEASE: Summer 2019 adventure novel – heroes, bad guys, FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, sidekicks, lovers and clowns—they’re all IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- players in this vast underwater drama. customized 15/70 Today, a new generation of reef guardians LENGTH: 40:00 are committed to protecting this marine PRODUCER: Statement Pictures/CNN Films reserve, making a difference and sharing DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined their knowledge of this extraordinary CONTACT: Todd Miller, [email protected] ecosystem, the beating heart of the reef. WEBSITE: firststepsmovie.com Learn how this amazing sanctuary has endured for thousands of years and will continue to do so far into the future.
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GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST (WT) protected and remote national wildlife Presented in 2D refuge islands and marine national RELEASE: 2018 monuments to giant screen cinemas FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant around the world. The film captures the Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- beauty of the ocean and these emerald customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital islets, the conservation efforts to restore LENGTH: 40:00 their ecosystems, and the diversity of PRODUCER: Spirit Bear Entertainment, Inc. life on both land and reef. Hidden Pacific DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films will take audiences to these faraway, CONTACT: Patty Collins, picturesque “Pearls of the Pacific” in [email protected] ultra-high resolution immersive giant Filmmakers Ian McAllister and Jeff screen formats. Turner and Executive Producer Kyle Washington and Byron Horner of Spirit IN SATURN’S RINGS Bear Entertainment are partnering with Presented in 2D MacGillivray Freeman Films to distribute RELEASE: May 2018 (fulldome will be a beautiful giant screen film about one of released 3-6 months later) the rarest animals on Earth—the fabled FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, all-white Spirit Bear. These remarkable IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- creatures live in the lush temperate customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital rainforests of British Columbia on LENGTH: 40:00 Canada’s West Coast, where they hold PRODUCER: SV2 Studios DISTRIBUTOR: BIG & Digital almost mythic status among the region’s CONTACT: Tina Ratterman, indigenous people. Shot exclusively for [email protected] the giant screen, Great Bear Rainforest WEBSITE: insaturnsrings.com (working title) will offer a remarkable Fly through space and explore the journey into one of the planet’s most wonders of the universe as science spectacular wildernesses—a land of meets art on the giant screen. Created wolves, grizzly bears, humpback whales, from over seven million real photographs sea lions, sea otters and others—as from space missions and historical it explores the secret world of the sources, all animated to full motion, Spirit Bear. audiences will journey from the Big Bang HIDDEN PACIFIC (WT) to the awe-inspiring rings of Saturn. In Saturn’s Rings showcases stunning, Presented in 2D rarely seen and newly processed images RELEASE: Spring 2018 from humanity’s space missions including FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, Cassini-Huygens, SDSS, Voyagers 1 & 2, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser Hubble, Solar Dynamics Observatory, LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 Messenger, Lunar Reconnaissance PRODUCER: Tandem Stills + Motion and Giant Screen Films Orbiter, and many more. Leading DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films astrophotographers have contributed CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] 500,000 photographs of the night sky, including the highest resolution multi-day Directed by Ansel Adams award-winning time-lapse of the Milky Way ever nature photographer Ian Shive, Hidden photographed. The result is a ground- Pacific will bring the Pacific Ocean’s
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breaking visual epic that is the closest OCEANS: THE BLUE PLANET (WT) experience to flying through space Presented in 2D and time possible without a personal RELEASE: Spring 2018 spacecraft. Set to powerful music and FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, dense sound design, In Saturn’s Rings IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser appeals to the great human yearning LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 to explore, to question, to discover. Producer: BBC Earth and Alucia Productions MOUNTAIN QUEST (WT) DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth and Giant Presented in 2D Screen Films RELEASE: December 2017 CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] FORMATS: 2D & 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, From BBC Earth, Oceans: The Blue IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Fulldome Digital Planet is an extraordinary journey of LENGTH: 40:00 discovery and wonder, transporting the PRODUCER: Stranger Than Fiction Films audience to the deep, mysterious worlds DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications of our oceans. Packed with drama, awe CONTACT: Mark Kresser, and spectacle, we reveal untold stories [email protected] of the ocean’s most astonishing A lone climber, suspended hundreds of creatures in all-immersive 3D. The feet in the air, struggles to find the next scientific community has made more finger hold, defining progress in inches. discoveries within the last 10 years than The dramatic visuals immerse us in a the previous 100 years, expanding our gripping contest of human determination frontiers of knowledge and revealing versus the reality of gravity’s potent grip. richer diversity than we could ever have Mountain Quest explores the precarious imagined. From the freezing shores of relationship of humanity’s quest to scale the Arctic to the balmy waters of the some of the world’s highest places, tropics, we share these extraordinary while also revealing the scientific and new discoveries. Using revolutionary technological advances that have underwater and on-board filming enabled us to conquer these peaks, technology, we’ll dive into the giant void exposing the heartbeat of the human of the big blue, journey with a deep-sea soul. A tapestry of jaw-dropping action, current, and witness scenes of wonder combined with rich STEM content—for from the greatest fishery on earth. In example, physics of the real world, such stunning 3D, Oceans: The Blue Planet as how climbing is a tug-of-war between takes the audience to magical worlds friction and gravity, while skiing involves and delivers a connection to the ocean the same battle of forces in reverse. like never before. Educational insights about the engineering of climbing gear and skis, PANDAS (WT) and the aeronautical effects of a Presented in 2D wingsuit, are seamlessly integrated with RELEASE: Spring 2018 dramatic visuals and action. The film will FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, be narrated by Willem Dafoe and release IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 December 2017. LENGTH: 40:00 PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected]
26 A naturalist in rural New Hampshire SECRETS OF THE SERENGETI (WT) becomes the unlikely key to solving one of Presented in 2D the most pressing issues in conservation— RELEASE: 2019 saving the Giant Panda. For twenty-five FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, years, Ben Kilham quietly raised orphaned IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- black bears and returned them to the customized 15/70 forests of New England. But his life takes LENGTH: 40:00 on greater meaning when Chinese PRODUCER: Digital Crossing Films scientists enlist his help to launch a bold DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films new project preparing captive-bred panda CONTACT: Jonathan Barker, [email protected] cubs to leave their coddled world behind The Serengeti is one of the world’s most and set off on a wild adventure in the spectacular ecosystems. It’s home to the snowy mountains of Sichuan. biggest migration of mammals on earth. Two million wildebeest endure a THE SECRETS OF GRAVITY: treacherous year long journey, culminating IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF in the largest synchronized birth of ALBERT EINSTEIN mammals on the planet. Why they travel Presented in 3D such long distances, and why they time RELEASE: October 1, 2017 their births together was one of nature’s FORMATS: 3D, DCI-compliant, Fulldome greatest mysteries. Fifty years ago, scientist Digital, VR/360 Tony Sinclair set out to answer those LENGTH: 30:00 questions. Secrets of the Serengeti recounts PRODUCER: Softmachine Immersive his incredible life’s work. Sinclair and his Productions fellow scientists discovered something DISTRIBUTOR: BIG & Digital, LLC much bigger and more complex than they CONTACT: Tina Ratterman, [email protected] ever imagined. All species from the largest WEBSITE: gravity-360.com elephant to the tiniest insects play a role, and the rules governing their behaviour Why do things fall to the ground without are not limited to the Serengeti, but can be magic? Young magician’s apprentice applied to all of nature. Now, with climate LIMBRADUR is far more interested in the changing and resources becoming universe and its secrets than boring magic scarcer, understanding how populations spells. He is fascinated by the stars, the are regulated is even more important. universe and the laws of nature. So, one night he sneaks into the Albert Einstein SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE Museum, where he meets ALBYX3, a small, Presented in 3D clever but rather quirky robot who knows RELEASE: April 2019 all about Albert Einstein and his theories. FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant ALBY takes LIMBRADUR on a magical Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- journey of discovery through time and customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital space, during which they not only uncover LENGTH: 40:00 the secrets of gravity but also learn much PRODUCER: The Stephen Low Company about friendship and imagination. For DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications LIMBRADUR and ALBY both have secrets CONTACT: Mark Kresser of their own. Fulldome format is available [email protected] now in 2D and 3D 4K resolution. WEBSITE: secretsoftheuniversefilm.com
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Breakthrough advancements in the Alps, Sigurd talks to himself and technology are enabling never-before- jokes with his colleagues over the radio. possible scientific experimentation. Their conversations break the solitude These fascinating machines, such as of their work, preparing the slopes for the $13 billion Large Hadron Collider tomorrow’s skiers. Sigurd wonders about in Geneva, Switzerland, provide an snow, its structure and what happens to unprecedented pathway to answers it when it reaches the ground. But he also surrounding the nature of our universe. wonders how much longer the magical Thousands of scientists, with a diversity snow spectacle will last. of backgrounds and expertise, journey from all over the world to labs like CERN THE STORY OF EARTH (WT) (the host of the LHC) and Fermilab (new Presented in 3D host of ICARUS and the highly- RELEASE: 2018 anticipated DUNE project)—now with a FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant real hope of unlocking the secrets that Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser have long eluded us. Dark matter, LENGTH: 40:00 antimatter, extra dimensions, and more, PRODUCER: December Media DISTRIBUTOR: December Media join them as they push the boundaries of Distribution the possible, on the cusp of turning CONTACT: Mark Bretherton, science fiction into science fact. The film [email protected] will be narrated by acclaimed actor This is the story of a remarkable planet, Simon Helberg. unlike any other yet found across deep SNOW (WT) space. Born from dying stars, it was Presented in 3D sculpted by violent collisions in space. Yet, in an epic journey, this hostile ball RELEASE: End 2018/Beginning 2019 FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, of molten rock transformed itself into a IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Fulldome Digital nurturing environment. From it emerged LENGTH: 40:00 forms of life, none of which have been PRODUCER: Ouragan Film found anywhere else in the universe. DISTRIBUTOR: nWave Pictures Distribution That planet is not millions of light years CONTACT: Alexandre Milazzo, away either... You are standing on it right [email protected] now. It is Earth. The northern hemisphere is preparing for winter and its customary blanket of snow. TOUCH THE STARS (WT) Late at night, Sigurd Haraldson Presented in 3D crisscrosses the mountains of his Alpine RELEASE: Early 2018 home at the controls of his snowplough. FORMATS: 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, On his radar screens, he tracks a IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- snowstorm that is gaining ground in customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital LENGTH: 40:00 and 25:00 Northern Canada and about to make its PRODUCER: Afterglow Studios way East. He hopes it’s going to head his DISTRIBUTOR: BIG & Digital way... Everyone is waiting for the arrival CONTACT: Luke Ployhar, of snow and everything it will bring. [email protected] Beneath the stars in his snowplough in
28 Trace the path to space through the TURTLE ODYSSEY (WT) history of NASA’s probes, orbiters, and Presented in 3D landers, from the heart of our solar RELEASE: March 2018 system to the surface of other planets FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant and moons, to the grand tour of the Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- Voyager spacecraft through the outer customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital planets and beyond. Created with the LENGTH: 40:00 latest imagery and scientific data, Touch PRODUCER: Definition Films & the Stars uses inspiring real footage and Ocean 3D Films three-dimensional vistas of our solar DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films system and interstellar space to transport CONTACT: Amelia McCarten, [email protected] audiences to planets and distant stars alongside these intrepid robot explorers. We live in two worlds—one we call Earth, the other as alien as any distant planet—a TRAIN TIME (WT) planet where we could not breathe but Presented in 2D where we could fly—where we would RELEASE: April 2018 meet unbelievably strange creatures— FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, creatures that could not live on our world IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser no more than we could live on theirs. And LENGTH: 44:00 yet here on our blue planet these worlds PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: The Stephen Low co-exist. One creature must touch the Company edge of the otherworld—must, for its CONTACT: Pietro Serapiglia, birth, life and rebirth, cross the barrier. It [email protected] is the sea turtle—an astounding voyager WEBSITE: stephenlow.com that can traverse thousands of kilometers On a stunning and kinetic rail journey of open ocean for 40 or 50 years then, across the North American continent, from half a world away, travel, with Train Time reveals the hidden inner mysterious precision, back to the very workings of the modern railroad. The film beach where it was born—there to lay the will explore how, over the course of more eggs that are the foundation of the next than two centuries, the world’s railroads generation. With our turtle guide our have helped to shape modern nation crews have traveled thousands of states, propelling goods and commodities kilometers to capture in 3D the wonders and enabling smooth functioning of this water world—encountering all economies. Combining stunning imagery kinds of strange and wonderful creatures and a people-oriented story line, the film from enormous breaching whales to the will explore the science and engineering coral wonderland of the Great Barrier of railroading: how trains and Reef—all recorded with the magic of 3D locomotives are designed . . . how and so that playful sea lions, tiny Sea Horses— where they are built . . . how they have and playful clown fish can float out into evolved over the years . . . what makes the theater. We are reminded that there is them so inherently efficient . . . what the so much beauty in our world and moved future holds . . . and more. to cherish it.
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WT = working title pose to our planet today. Learn how we monitor them in order to stay out of THE 331 DAYS TO V-E DAY their deadly path. Through the eyes of RELEASE: May 2019 scientists tasked with keeping watch over FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant our planet, see the devastating effects of Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, a hypothetical asteroid impact, portrayed Dome-customized 15/70 on a grand scale as never seen before. LENGTH: 40:00 The ways we might prevent a cosmic PRODUCER: N3D Land Films collision are also explored. This new IMAX DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined documentary will make clear it’s not a CONTACT Pascal Vuong, [email protected] question of if an asteroid will strike our planet again, but when. On June 6th, 1944, the Allied Forces opened up a “second front” in France so COLOURS OF CHINA (WT) that they could begin freeing Europe from RELEASE: April 2019 German occupation and put an end to the FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Third Reich. Thus, in the West and the East, Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, the gigantic vice formed by Allied Forces Dome-customized 15/70 began to clamp shut on Nazi Germany. LENGTH: 37:00 However, it was only almost a year after PRODUCER: Making Movies, China the D-Day landings, after the price was Intercontinental Communication Center paid in millions of civilian and military lives, (CICC), and Gebrueder Beetz that a ravaged Germany would capitulate Filmproduktion without condition, on May 8th, 1945. From DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced Normandy to the heart of Germany via CONTACT: James Heyward, [email protected] Belgium and the Netherlands, Carentan, WEBSITE: makingmovies.co.nz/portfolio/ Operation Market Garden, Bastogne are colours-of-china/ some of the major battlefields that marked out the heroic course of the Allies towards Five colours resonate through every layer Victory in Europe. The film V-E Day brings of traditional and modern Chinese life to light, in a novel and immersive way, all representing emotional, physical, spiritual the ins and outs of the 331 days that and directional forces. In the centre, is changed the world. yellow, surrounded by blue for east, red for south, white for west and black for ASTEROID IMPACT the north. Guided by these profoundly RELEASE: To be determined influential colours, the audience embarks FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, on a visual and cultural journey to IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 discover spectacular landscapes, moods, LENGTH: 40:00 seasons and regions; unpacking the PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation complex relationship between Colour CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] and Chinese culture, landscapes, built Asteroid Impact will reveal the origins environments and the astonishing of asteroids and the effects of previous advances in the development and Earth impacts. Delve into how these deployment of green technologies. celestial bodies have shaped life on primitive Earth, and the threat they
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EINSTEIN’S INCREDIBLE Sinosauropteryx—a squirrel version of UNIVERSE (WT) Velociraptor—and the massive Yutyranus— RELEASE: 2020 a sort of feathered T-Rex—roam in search FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant of dinner. Highly exposed on the ground, Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Microraptor can only climb trees to escape. Dome-customized 15/70 Its neighbours have other strategies: primitive LENGTH: 45:00 mammals rely on dens to hide in and poisonous PRODUCER: Cosmic Picture heel spurs to inflict deadly wounds; coloured DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced Caudipteryx—a peacock version of a small CONTACT: Daniel Ferguson, Velociraptor—or “Pyjama raptor”—another [email protected] fluffy raptor—have to run through the maze WEBSITE: cosmicpicture.com/films/ einstein-3d-2/ of trees to confuse their predators. Every minute, Microraptor battles to survive: Today Albert Einstein is regarded as the Darwinopterus pterosaurs attack through most famous scientist of all time, his name the canopy, winter brings snow and volcanoes shorthand for genius, yet few of us fully spew deadly clouds of ashes. Will Microraptor understand his discoveries and their impact thrive long enough to give its chicks a on our lives. Now through a combination of chance to flee and venture out of their nest? stunning live-action cinematography and immersive CGI, audiences will experience GRAVITY 3D first-hand the visceral “thought experiments” RELEASE: 2019 at the heart of Einstein’s radical new vision FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant of the universe. Along the way, we will come Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser to appreciate how so many innovations we LENGTH: 45:00 take for granted stem from his imagination PRODUCER: December Media/Boston Films and how his General Theory of Relativity DISTRIBUTOR: December Media Distribution remains the basis of nearly every current CONTACT: Mark Bretherton, theory about how the cosmos works, from [email protected] black holes and time travel to the recent Gravity does much more than just connect discovery of gravitational waves. us to our planet. Through the world of extreme sports we’re going to place our FEATHERED DINOSAURS (WT) trust in this, a fundamental law of science. RELEASE: 2019 As we leap off waterfalls, free fall from FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, space, and jump over the Arc de Triomphe, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser we reveal how gravity drives the creation, LENGTH: 40:00 structure, and movement of the entire PRODUCER: St. Thomas Productions universe. Strap yourself into your seat— DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications you’re about to experience some major Gs. CONTACT: Mark Kresser, [email protected] HUMAN BODY (WT) RELEASE: To be confirmed On the green slopes of giant volcanoes FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant lives Microraptor. Not a bird, nor a normal Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser dinosaur: with four wings, this small, LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 feathered dinosaur glides between trees PRODUCER: BBC Earth in search of lizards or insects to feed its DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth and Giant young. Being tiny exposes it to various Screen Films threats from its neighbours: on the ground, CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected]
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There is a story that unites everyone on OUT OF BOUNDS (WT) earth, because of the one thing we all RELEASE: February 2019 have in common, the most mind-blowing FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant machine we know of in the Universe—the Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, human body. This film is a fantastic voyage Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital through the body to discover how we all LENGTH: 40:00 achieve the complex balancing act of being PRODUCER: K2 Communications and Wild alive. Using the latest breakthroughs in Pacific Media DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications medical imaging, combined with state of CONTACT: Mark Kresser, the art 3D photo-real animation, this is your [email protected] body as you’ve never seen or understood it WEBSITE: outofbounds-film.com before. The latest science provides fascinating insight into the extraordinary Follow Australian Olympic snowboarder world within us all. Human Body will take Torah Bright as she heads from her home in you to incredible places around world, the foothills of the Australian Alps, deep into sharing personal stories and events that Alaska’s glaciated Chugach mountain range. individual people experience, to reveal the Torah dedicated her life to conquering the unseen and often unbelievable actions that mountain, and now she’s working with her go on inside us every day. This is a film is for team to understand and protect these epic anybody who has a body—for all of us. ecosystems from an ever-changing world. Standing over the ledge of a 2000-foot
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36 vertical drop, we unravel the science behind we will experience this world of water as if the earth’s most incredible mountain for the first time, through stunning giant screen environments and ride these untamed peaks. 3D imagery and a unique perspective—a breathtaking rollercoaster ride through the PHIL’S POLLINATOR FILM (WT) ever-streaming currents and upwellings from RELEASE: To be determined the abyss to the surface. A water molecule FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant riding this vast Ocean Conveyer Belt takes a Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, thousand years to travel the entire world Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital ocean and back. Along the way, we’ll encounter LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 spectacular wildlife in a liquid sky and meet PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined the heroes who fight for ocean health with CONTACT: Phil Streather, [email protected] creative scientific solutions. Planet Ocean 3D Not all pollinators are insects. Tiny will be a cinematic thrill ride but will also crustaceans pollinate turtle seagrasses of show how our one ocean is crucial for our the Mexican Gulf and white winged doves planet’s health—a vast circulatory system provide personal services to mighty Saguaro and climate engine that supports all life on cacti in the Sonoran desert. Not all Earth, including our own—leaving audiences pollination is about food. The arctic circle’s both enlightened and inspired. northern orchid could not exist without the loathed mosquito. But it is the honey bees, POWERED BY THE WIND wild pollinators and other insects that are RELEASE: September 2018 most important to us. Between them they FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant produce $40bn of products annually in the Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, USA. Humans depend on pollinators for one Dome-customized 15/70 in three mouthfuls of food; and those are the LENGTH: 45:00 tasty ones! Fruit, nuts, most vegetables. But, PRODUCER: Blue Sky Aerial & Specialist Filming why are honeybee colonies collapsing and DISTRIBUTOR: Mate & Orchard Productions other pollinators in decline? Well, let’s find Steven Morris out! During one glorious North American CONTACT: Peter Degerfeldt, [email protected] year, all these vital pollinators evade their This new large format film will focus on the enemies as, on tireless legs or wings, they Turn the Tide on Plastic team about to visit up to 2000 flowers daily, foraging participate in the Volvo Ocean Race, and pollinating as if their lives depend 2017-2018. This race is often referred to as on it. Ours certainly do. the Ocean’s Everest. She will be leading a young, mixed crew, half men and women. PLANET OCEAN 3D (WT) They will race to win, but they also have RELEASE: To be determined a higher goal: to spread an important FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant environment message. “This isn’t a B2B or Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, B2C campaign. It’s relevant to everyone, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital and so it feels like I’m taking on a major LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 responsibility. We’ve abused our planet, PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Principal Large and it’s key to drive conversation about Format and Vulcan Productions the amount of plastic in our ocean. We’re CONTACT: Phil Streather, [email protected] already talking about it, of course, but this Earth is not covered by “Seven Seas,” as campaign is all about pushing people into we once learned in school, but one single proactively doing something about it.” interconnected ocean. In Planet Ocean 3D Dee Cafree.
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SUPERPOWER DOGS (WT) attack a myriad of debilitating and fatal RELEASE: 2019 diseases in humans. From the thrill of the FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI- chase to the world of advanced medical compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX science, follow our team of venomologists Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 as they risk their lives to save the lives Length: 40:00 of others. PRODUCER: Cosmic Picture DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced WILD WONDERS OF CHINA CONTACT: Taran Davies, RELEASE: September 2019 [email protected] FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant WEBSITE: superpowerdogs.com Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, The true story of a rookie puppy who Dome-customized 15/70 discovers her superpowers with the help LENGTH: 45:00 of the world’s most extraordinary search PRODUCER: Blue Sky Aerial & Specialist and rescue dogs. From the Canadian Filming DISTRIBUTOR: Mate & Orchard Productions Rockies to the Italian Riviera to Northern Steven Morris Kenya, join these heroic canines and CONTACT: Peter Degerfeldt, [email protected] their human partners as they brave WEBSITE: wildwondersofchina.com/en/en/ earthquakes and avalanches, bring criminals to justice and lift our spirits. Wild Wonders of China is a Chinese- Audiences will experience how dogs see, International project about showing hear and smell the world and discover China’s amazing natural treasures to how we are harnessing their remarkable China’s citizens and the world. The wild superpowers to heal, inspire and save side of China, with wonderful wildlife and lives. We will never look at our best wild places that most people don’t even friends the same way again! know exist. Using the emotional power of great photography to inspire really wide VENOM 3D: THE BITE audiences with the Joy of the Wild. Put THAT CURES simply, it’s about nurturing a love affair RELEASE: 2019 with China’s very rich and really attractive FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI- natural heritage, using every available compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, communication tool. Celebrating what is IMAX Laser still out there, why it matters to us all and LENGTH: 45:00 why we need to both enjoy and take good PRODUCER: December Media/Biopixel care of it. Celebrating also that nature DISTRIBUTOR: December Media Distribution conservation works—highlighting the CONTACT: Mark Bretherton, many Chinese conservation success [email protected] stories, the great initiatives and the people The animal kingdom uses venom to hunt behind these, while at the same time and defend itself. These deadly cocktails showing concern for habitats and species. of toxins unleash multifaceted attacks How are people to be expected to care on their victims, targeting the nervous for something they haven’t ever seen, felt system, paralyzing muscles, clotting blood strongly for, or simply don’t know about? and breaking down cells to name a few We want the whole world to experience effects. But that is only part of the story. the stunning landscapes and splendid Medical science is discovering that the biodiversity of China today. very same deadly toxins can be used to
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Wednesday, September 27 the perfect location to record 1:30–3:00 pm multi-channel audio, with the idyllic Navy Pier IMAX Theatre sounds of the dawn chorus, the variety of bird calls, and other CONVERTING VS. SHOOTING animal voices that make up the IN NATIVE 3D audio spectrum. Discussed and PRESENTER: Nancy Wang, Legend 3D demonstrated are a variety of Macrophotography of bugs? Check! recording technics and updated Aerials of snowcapped mountains? information about available mixing Check! Shooting in cramped software for the unique 12.0 giant locations with inclement weather? screen audio system. Check! The production challenges for giant screen projects are myriad, SAVE OUR ASPECT RATIO but telling a compelling 3D story (SOAR) GSCA TECHNICAL shouldn’t be limited by production COMMITTEE INITIATIVE obstacles. This technical PRESENTERS: Daniel Ferguson, presentation will cover how stereo Cosmic Picture; Rick Gordon, RPG Productions; James Neihouse, ASC post-conversion can be a useful tool in a documentarian’s arsenal to Save Our Aspect Ratio is a GSCA bring the real world to screen. We initiative to illustrate how 4:3 aspect will have examples of scenarios that ratio can be captured with today’s benefit from post-conversion and state-of-the-art 8K digital cameras. clips to show how this can be This is an attempt to preserve this integrated seamlessly with footage legacy aspect ratio that has been from 3D cameras, along with a the hallmark of giant screen cinema discussion of how post-conversion since its inception, and it is the ideal format for giant screen dome can be used to heighten the 3D theaters since it covers about 75% effect in the service of storytelling of the screen. With 16:9 widescreen so that a filmmaker’s vision can be format, the vertical impact of the larger-than-life in all dimensions, scenes is lost, and in flat screen without compromise. theaters, the top and bottom of the screens are not utilized. In domes, MULTI-CHANNEL LOCATION only about 50% of the dome is AUDIO RECORDING AND covered with imagery, seriously MIXING...AN UPDATE diminishing the impact of an PRESENTER: Tim Archer, Masters Digital immersive dome experience. This presentation is an update on multi-channel location audio We will showcase the latest in digital capture technology recording and mixing, both performance and demonstrate this technically and creatively, utilizing method in the following ways: recent recordings from Great Bear Rainforest. Great Bear Rainforest is
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1. Shoot with room to stretch THE OUTER LIMITS OF the sky digitally (digital shot IMMERSIVE MEDIA extensions) MODERATOR: Michael Daut, Evans & Sutherland 2. Shoot scene and tip up to shoot sky again Immersive media takes many forms beyond the giant screen cinema 3. Shoot properly for giant screen experience. Domes in particular (low in frame and crop—losing are incredibly immersive spaces. resolution) Their digital capabilities have given We will master the footage in 4:3 rise to innovative shared virtual format and also warp it experiences that extend into other appropriately for display in dome forms of media and other creative theaters for the session at the communities. In this session we will Museum of Science and Industry look at practical examples of the on Thursday. latest work that is being produced for a variety of applications, including Thursday, September 28 VR, themed entertainment, art, and 10:00-11:30 am scientific visualization. Hopefully Museum of Science and Industry this will inspire new uses for Giant Dome Theater immersive digital domes that can reach new audiences. SHOOTING FOR THE DOME: PRESENTERS: COMPOSITION, ACTION Dani LeBlanc, Museum of Science AND LIGHTING Boston, will share work done by PRESENTER: Jonathan Bird, Oceanic local artists. Donna Cox and Robert Research Group Patterson, National Center for Dome theaters offer an incredible Supercomputing Applications, immersive experience for audiences, will share scientific visualization but shooting for the dome has examples. Kent Maahs, Science special considerations. In this tech Center of Iowa, will discuss live session, filmmaker Jonathan Bird surgery on the dome and flat will discuss some of the most screen. Robin Sip, Evans & important aspects of shooting for Sutherland, will also present. the dome, including composition, action, and lighting using examples SAVE OUR ASPECT RATIO from his film Space School and the (SOAR) GSCA TECHNICAL forthcoming Ancient Caves, both of COMMITTEE INITIATIVE which are dome-specific giant (DOME VERSION) screen films. PRESENTERS: Rick Gordon, RPG Productions; James Neihouse, ASC Save Our Aspect Ratio is a GSCA initiative to illustrate how 4:3 aspect ratio can be captured with today’s state-of-the-art 8K digital
42 cameras. This is an attempt to method in the following ways: preserve this legacy aspect ratio 1. Shoot with room to stretch the that has been the hallmark of giant sky digitally (digital shot screen cinema since its inception, extensions) and it is the ideal format for giant screen dome theaters since it 2. Shoot scene and tip up to shoot covers about 75% of the screen. sky again With 16:9 widescreen format, the 3. Shoot properly for giant screen vertical impact of the scenes is (low in frame and crop—losing lost, and in flat screen theaters, the resolution) top and bottom of the screens are not utilized. In domes, only about We will master the footage in 4:3 50% of the dome is covered with format and also warp it imagery, seriously diminishing the appropriately for display in dome impact of an immersive dome theaters for the session at the experience. Museum of Science and Industry on Thursday. We will showcase the latest in digital capture technology performance and demonstrate this
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Hidden in Plain Sight: PRESENTER: Jodi Harris, Content Finding Solutions to Modern Marketing Consultant Learn how to create data-driven Marketing Challenges audience personas that can help you Friday, September 29, 2017 identify niche segments within your 7:30 am – 5:00 pm primary audience—and target the DoubleTree LaSalle Ballroom right audience for every film.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 10:00 am - 10:15 am BREAK 7:30 am - 8:00 am Sponsored by AEOS Theaters 10:15 am - 10:30 am 15 Audience Engagement Ideas WELCOME AND in 15 Minutes INTRODUCTIONS PRESENTER: Despi Ross, Museum Playbook 8:00 am - 8:30 am 15 quick research-backed Task force leaders Mark Katz and suggestions to better engage Andy Zakrajsek will welcome audiences. attendees and introduce Museum Playbook. 10:30 am – 11:00 am Connecting with New Audiences PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE PRESENTER: Doug Harris, The 8:30 am - 9:15 am Kaleidoscope Group Seeing the Forest and the Trees Thinking about diversity isn’t enough. PRESENTERS: Despi Ross and Charity In order to reach new audiences, we Counts, Museum Playbook have to kick those ideas into action. Museum Playbook will present an This presentation will focus on ways interactive summary of the challenges to turn ideas into engagement. and opportunities that museums and theaters face with insights gathered 11:00 am - 11:30 am from site visits, visitor interviews Turn Your Visitors Into Marketers and member surveys, including the PRESENTER: Jackie Huba, author of dangers of overlooking audience Monster Loyalty (How Lady Gaga engagement blindspots. Turns Followers Into Fanatics) Research has shown that word- PART 2: AUDIENCE of-mouth is the most powerful ENGAGEMENT marketing vehicle for films. This 9:15 am - 9:30 am session will teach you how to use Storytelling Performance great customer service experiences A local Chicago performer will tell a to turn your visitors into powerful story about the awe-inspiring experience brand ambassadors. of seeing a giant screen film inspired 11:30 am – 12:00 pm by a real visitor account to set the stage Q&A with Audience Engagement for our audience engagement track. Speakers 9:30 am – 10:00 am The speakers featured in the How to Find Audiences (You Already Audience Engagement track will Have!) return to the stage for a Q&A session.
44 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch Break, The speakers featured in the sponsored by AEOS Theaters Maximizing Revenue track will return “Conversate and Collaborate” to the stage for a Q&A session. activity. Each table will have a set of conversation starters that 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm BREAK encourage attendees to talk about PART 4: DIGITAL MARKETING ways producers, distributors and TIPS AND TRICKS museums/theaters can collaborate. 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Topics will be inspired by Museum Social Media Tips and Trends Playbook site visit and staff PRESENTER: Sarah Summit, Ghost Social interview findings. Do you find social media to be a PART 3: MAXIMIZING paradox? Brimming with opportunity REVENUE but difficult to get results? This session will be focused on specific actionable 1:00 pm - 1:15 pm Box Office Rally tips to get you on the right track. Actor Mookie Harris will perform 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm scripted and improvised scenes with The Power of Search audience suggestions and real-life box PRESENTER: Mary Hartman, Hanapin office situations that propose creative Marketing ways to upsell. Ideas could include Visitors find film showtimes through improved on-site signage, changes online search more than any other to staff training, salesmanship, etc. method. This session will offer tips to optimize your website, use Google 1:15 pm - 1:30 pm 15 Ways to Stretch Your Marketing Adwords and other third party tools Budget in 15 minutes to make sure you show up when your PRESENTER: Despi Ross, Museum visitors are looking. Playbook 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm 15 real-life, hands-on, down-and-dirty Email Gold ways to make every dollar count. PRESENTER: Mike Christie, Good Health Session will include findings/ Copywriter recommendations from site visits. Email tips and tricks to increase 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm conversion and revenue. Practical (and Creative) Ways to 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm Increase Ticket Revenue Q&A with Digital Marketing Speakers PRESENTER: Brian Siddle, Strong The speakers featured in the Digital Coffee Marketing Marketing track will return to the Action-oriented tactical ideas for stage for a Q&A session boosting revenue through your approach to ticket sales. CLOSING 4:45 - 5:00 PM 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Mark Katz and Andy Zakrajsek will Q&A with Maximizing Revenue Speakers wrap up and provide an overview of tools available on the GSCA site.
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Foxfire Interactive is an eLearning IMAX CORPORATION production company that specializes in Therese Andrade science education. We design and produce [email protected] interactive solutions that are delivered via 1-310-255-5588 the web, apps, and giant screen cinema. imax.com Clients include some of the world’s facebook.com/IMAXUSCA/ foremost educational institutions and Twitter: @IMAX biopharma companies. Foxfire founder, IMAX, the pioneer in large-format Brad Lisle, currently serves as producer/ exhibition and producer of award-winning director and co-Principal Investigator for giant-screen documentaries, combines the Global Soundscapes Project (funded proprietary software, architecture and by the National Science Foundation). This equipment to create experiences that project targets middle school students take audiences beyond the edge of their and focuses on the science of sound and seats to worlds never imagined. The most the emerging field of soundscape prestigious museums, science centres and ecology. Project components include an aquariums have partnered with IMAX to interactive theater show that combines a entertain, educate and inspire patrons live presenter with the IMAX/giant screen about the wonders of the universe. experience (now available in 4k flat, fulldome, and D3D digital dome). K2 COMMUNICATIONS Mark Kresser GIANT SCREEN FILMS [email protected] Don Kempf Ed Capelle [email protected] [email protected] 1-847-475-9140 1-310-524-9100 gsfilms.com k2communications.com facebook.com/GSFD3D/ facebook.com/k2communications/ For over two decades, Giant Screen Films Twitter: @k2comm (GSF) has established itself as a pioneer in K2 is committed to producing, the large-format industry, producing and distributing, and developing films that distributing films that push the boundaries resonate with diverse audiences and that of the medium. Through the magic of are rich in STEM content. Working jointly immersive sight and sound technologies, with accomplished filmmakers like GSF’s productions challenge the imaginations Stephen Low and Mark Krenzien, K2 has of children and adults, offering an inspiring released a number of top performing perspective on the world and an unforgettable large format films, including their most theater experience. Meaningful educational recent releases, Aircraft Carrier-Guardians collaborations and partnerships extend of The Sea and Journey to Space, both each film’s impact far beyond the theater. joint K2/GSF productions. Two new films The company is recognized as one of the will be releasing over the next 12 months, world’s leading and most active large- Ancient Australia and Mountain Quest. K2 format producers and distributors and is also distributes a number of films for based in Evanston, Illinois. In addition to other talented producers within our producing exciting new content, GSF is industry. the exclusive US distributor of BBC Earth productions in the large-format industry.
48 MACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN FILMS Living up to its global reputation for Patty Collins amazing images and fascinating storytelling, [email protected] National Geographic produces and Bob Harman distributes films for educational museum [email protected] theaters. The catalog includes: Extreme Chip Bartlett Weather; Asteroid: Mission Extreme; [email protected] Jerusalem; Mysteries of the Unseen World; Dona Harman Robots 3D; Living in the Age of Airplanes; [email protected] Pandas–The Journey Home; Meerkats; Sea 1-949-494-1055 Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure; Lewis macgillivrayfreemanfilms.com and Clark; Forces of Nature; Flying facebook.com/MacGillivrayFreeman Monsters; U2 3D and more! Twitter: @MacFreeFilms NWAVE PICTURES MacGillivray Freeman Films is the largest DISTRIBUTION independent producer of giant-screen Janine Baker, [email protected] films and has produced many of the most 1-818-565-1101 popular and highest grossing films in the Jennifer Lee Hacket, industry. Current releases include Dream [email protected] Big: Engineering Our World, National Parks 1-386-256-5151 Adventure, The Search for Life in Space, Goedele Gillis, [email protected] and Humpback Whales. Our upcoming +32 2 347-63-19 releases include America’s Musical Journey nWave.com (available February 2018), a voyage of Facebook: nWavePicturesDistribution culture through the lens of music; We, The Instagram: nwavepicturesdistribution Marines (available November 2017); Great Twitter: @nWave Barrier Reef (2018) from December Media; Great Bear Rainforest (2018) from Spirit nWave Pictures Distribution is the sales Bear Entertainment and Ancient Caves and marketing arm of nWave Studios, a (2019). Visit us at the trade show to learn fully integrated digital feature animation more about these exciting releases and studio. The company is known as a our library of award-winning films, market leader in the supply of exciting including Journey To The South Pacific, and immersive 3D/4D content that To The Arctic, Grand Canyon Adventure, maximizes the WOW factor for audiences. Hurricane on the Bayou, Mystery of the We offer giant screen educational Nile, Everest and the Academy Award®- documentaries for institutional sites nominated pictures Dolphins and The (science centers, aquariums, zoos and Living Sea. natural history museums, etc.), and attraction films and ride simulation titles NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC for entertainment venues (theme parks, Antonietta Monteleone stand-alone attractions and family [email protected] entertainment centers). Recent releases 1-212-656-0724 include Wild Cats 3D, The Great Apes 3D, nationalgeographic.com/movies Galapagos 3D: Nature’s Wonderland facebook.com/natgeomovies narrated by Jeff Corwin, Penguins 3D Twitter: @natgeomovies narrated by David Attenborough and #natgeofilms Hurricane 3D, produced by Ouragan Films.
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In 2018, nWave will release a new immersive having experienced a movie in RealD 3D. giant screen film Planet Power produced Furthering their mission to perfect the by N3D Land Films. Our company is visual experience, RealD has expanded its headquartered in Brussels (Belgium) with tech offerings into consumer electronics sales offices in California and Florida. with revolutionary new technology that enhances the visual experience on every PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER’S screen and every device. AMAZON ADVENTURE MASTERS OF MIMICRY SERENGETI ENTERTAINMENT Diane Carlson Catherine Quantschnigg [email protected] [email protected] 1-206-369-4946 +44 (0)20 8735 9300 Masters of Mimicry is a live stage show serengetientertainment.com/ developed by Pacific Science Center to screeners/theatrical/ accompany Amazon Adventure. Developed Serengeti Entertainment prides itself on with NSF funding, it is designed to engage distributing films that push the boundaries families in the topic of natural selection. Stop in technology and storytelling. Museum by booth #405-406 to learn how you would Alive and Amazing Mighty Micro Monsters survive as a predator avoiding poisonous have captivated audiences in theatres frogs and in the process find out about worldwide, and its latest release, Conquest natural selection, mimicry, and camouflage. of the Skies, promises to maintain Selfies with you wearing a pair of bird Serengeti’s strong educational focus, wings are highly encouraged. how you while leaving the audience wanting more. can take this program home to integrate Amazon Adventure educational concepts SK FILMS into areas beyond your theater. Jonathan Barker [email protected] REALD 1-416-367-0440 ext. 3031 Shauna Kent Wendy MacKeigan [email protected] [email protected] 1-424-702-4745 1-416-367-0440 ext. 3032 reald.com Amber Hawtin facebook.com/RealD3D [email protected] Twitter: @reald3d 1-416-367-0440 ext. 3033 Twice named as “most innovative skfilms.ca company” by Fast Company, RealD is facebook.com/SKFilms recognized as the world’s visual Twitter: @SKFilms technology leader. RealD pioneered digital SK Films is an award-winning producer 3D cinema and today has the world’s and distributor of giant screen content, largest 3D cinema platform. RealD’s founded by veteran executive Jonathan dominant market share is comprised of a Barker and IMAX Corporation co-founder network of theaters that include more Robert Kerr. SK works with top scientific than 30,000 installed screens in 72 experts and industry-leading institutions countries with over 1,200 exhibition to bring quality projects to the market; partners. RealD is the world’s preeminent recent partnerships and relationships 3D brand, with well over 2 billion people include those with the U.S. National
50 Science Foundation (NSF) and the We are producers and distributors of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s giant screen experience with a host of new Tangled Bank Studios. SK’s newest projects on tap. High-impact storytelling release is the critically acclaimed is what this company is all about. Come Amazon Adventure, following on the see us about upcoming releases. heels of the multi-award-winning Flight of the Butterflies. Our upcoming releases STRONG/MDI SCREEN include Backyard Wilderness, Volcanoes SYSTEMS and Turtle Odyssey, all available in 2018. Francois Barrette Join us at the tradeshow to learn more [email protected] about these new projects, meet our live Office: 1-877-755-3795 #258 sloth and use virtual reality to rappel Mobile: 1-450 750-4236 into a volcano. strongmdi.com facebook.com/ SPITZ PROJECTION DOMES strongmdiscreensystems Joyce Towne, [email protected] Twitter: @strong_mdi 1-610-459-5200 linkedin.com/company/strong-mdi spitzdomes.com Strong/MDI Screen Systems manufactures facebook.com/SpitzInc premium cinema screens, 2D and 3D Spitz is the world’s leading provider screens, specialty screens, motorized of projection domes, with over 2,000 screen systems, custom structures and domes installed in giant screen cinemas, masking motors for clients worldwide. planetariums, and attractions worldwide. Strong/MDI is also known for the NanoSeam™ by Spitz is the only seamless development of highly sophisticated projection surface available, offering coatings for projection surfaces unmatched uniformity under show projection. Spitz offers dome repaneling USHIO AMERICA for Giant Screen theaters, which greatly Jan Johnson improves the quality of large-format [email protected] projection. We’ve repaneled projection 1-714-229-5344 domes at the Reuben H. Fleet Science ushio.com Center, Science Center Singapore, and facebook.com/UshioAmerica/ Science Museum of Virginia with NanoSeam, Twitter: @UshioAmerica providing optimal projection surfaces for USHIO America, Inc. is a leading modern digital projection methods. Spitz manufacturer of Specialty and General also provides planetariums, fulldome Illumination lighting solutions based in shows, and architectural dome design Cypress, California. Established in 1967 and construction services. as a subsidiary of USHIO Inc., in Tokyo, Japan, USHIO carries over 3,500 general THE STEPHEN LOW COMPANY lighting and specialty products. USHIO is Pietro Serapiglia the xenon lamp of choice for the digital [email protected] cinema industry, offering a full line of 1-514-633-6036 xenon lamps that are approved by Barco, stephenlow.com NEC, and Sony. USHIO also offers a washing system for cinema 3D glasses.
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TIM ARCHER public television in the USA since Creative Director / 2008. This series has won 8 Emmy Sound Designer, Awards and is currently in the 6th Masters Digital season of production. Jonathan has For over 30 years Tim shot and produced over 50 films, has been recording, which have appeared all over the designing and mixing audio for the world on networks such as National giant screen and themed attractions. Geographic Channel, PBS, ABC, He has received MPSE Golden Reel USA Network, Discovery, and even Awards for the giant screen film the SciFi Channel. Jonathan is the president and founder of projects Santa vs. the Snowman 3D Oceanic Research Group, Inc., and The Human Body as well as www.oceanicresearch.org, a non-profit Pirates, a themed-attraction project. He also shared the GSCA Best Sound environmental organization founded in Design Award for the location audio 1990 to promote conservation of the world’s oceans. He is the author of on Tornado Alley. Tim is also co- producer and sound designer for seven books of underwater photography. www.jonathanbird.net the giant screen production Global Soundscapes: Mission to Record the DIANE CARLSON Earth, an interactive theater show President, Giant Screen about the science of sound and Cinema Consulting, LLC soundscape ecology. Most recently Diane Carlson is a deeply Tim has been recording in remote engaged and passionate parts of the Pacific Northwest for the champion of the giant upcoming giant screen production, screen field. She left her 30+ year Great Bear Rainforest, Land of the career at Pacific Science Center, as VP Spirit Bear (w/t). of Theaters and Emerging Media, to JONATHAN BIRD launch her consulting firm. She has President and Founder, advised on film projects, theater Oceanic Research Group operations and marketing. She is Inc. currently serving as the PI of a $2.9M Jonathan Bird is an National Science Foundation grant in Emmy award-winning support of the Amazon Adventure film cinematographer specializing in project. She has visited over 100 ® underwater production. He is currently IMAX theaters on four continents. GSCA committee participation in production on Ancient Caves, a film for giant dome theaters. His previous includes membership, marketing, and professional development. Her film, Space School, about underwater astronaut training, is a live-action contributions to the annual conference fulldome film. He is the host and programming include initiating and coordinating the Giant Screen 101 producer of Jonathan Bird’s Blue Workshop and Great Marketing Ideas. World, an educational family-friendly underwater adventure series airing on She is serving her fourth elected term
52 on the GSCA board. The launch of the MICHAEL DAUT Boeing IMAX® Theater, which she led, Creative Director & garnered a GSTA MAC theater launch Marketing Director, award in 1999. She was honored in Evans & Sutherland 2012 with an IMAX Founders Award Michael has a passion for and in 2013 with a GSCA Big Shoe immersive media and is award. She attended the University an award-winning writer, producer, and of California at Berkeley, earning director for fulldome videos, theatrical a Bachelors of Science degree in productions, music videos, live concert zoology and a Masters of Public videos, commercials, documentaries, Health. corporate videos, and trade show DONNA COX presentations. Since joining Evans & Sutherland in 1998, he has helped Dr. Donna J. Cox, MFA, develop a library of shows for the is the first Michael Aiken digital fulldome community. He created Chair, Director of the the world’s first digital fulldome film for Advanced Visualization SIGGRAPH ’99 in Los Angeles. He also Laboratory (AVL) at the helped create the world’s first digital National Center for Supercomputing fulldome transfer of a giant screen film, Applications (NCSA), NCSA Director Africa the Serengeti in 2007. As a result of Research & Education and the of this groundbreaking first step, there eDream Institute for digital arts, are now over 50 giant screen films and Professor in the School of Art converted to fulldome digital. He also & Design, University of Illinois at produced the first two 8K Digital Dome Urbana-Champaign. For over 30 years, Demos for GSCA and co-produced last she has researched and developed the year’s event with members of the art of scientific visualization and the Technical Committee. Michael is a collaborative methodology of member of the Producer’s Guild of “Renaissance Teams” to create big America, a founding member of the screen and big data science. AVL and Association of Fulldome Innovators, her collaborators have thrilled millions a member of the Telly Awards’ Silver of people with the cinematic and Council, a board member of the Giant artistic data scientific visualizations for Screen Cinema Association (currently international fulldome and digital co-chair of the Technical Committee), museum shows, IMAX movies, feature and a board member of IMERSA.org, films, and television. AVL recently the Immersive Media Entertainment, completed fulldome Solar Research, Science and Arts and Superstorms A Beautiful Planet 3D organization dedicated to raising IMAX film. The Chicago Museum of the visibility of immersive media Science and Industry selected her as across a variety of disciplines one of 40 modern Leonardo DaVinci’s. throughout the world. In 2017, IMERSA awarded her a lifetime achievement award for her lasting contributions to the fulldome community. http://avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/
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MIKE DAY numerous IMAX theaters, including Executive Vice President, Boston’s Museum of Science and the Science Museum of Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Minnesota and consulting for over 28 different Mike Day has enjoyed a institutions around the world, including 35-year career in public the Smithsonian Institution and the program administration and museums. Museum of Science in Barcelona. She also After earning a finance degree from the helped develop the commercial giant University of Illinois, Mike was awarded screen theater industry by launching and a New York State Arts Council grant to operating one of the first commercial study museum management in IMAX theaters in New York City, while Rochester, New York. He went on to working for Sony Theatres. In 2006, she the Cleveland Board of Education, from joined MacGillivray to develop strategic which he was recruited to join the business partnerships, coordinate the Science Museum on Minnesota. He has marketing and distribution of films. She traveled the world as an executive was also the Executive Producer of Dream producer of 11 giant screen films for the Big: Engineering Our World, released in 2017. At MacGillivray, she’s discovered the museum’s IMAX® Dome theater, the William L. McKnight-3M Omnitheater. incredible teamwork it takes to make a film He and his film teams spent seven years and loves being in the office the first day chasing volcanoes around the Pacific the crew gets back from a big shoot to hear all their stories firsthand. Basin for Ring of Fire and journeyed to the shores of Lake Tanganyika to DANIEL FERGUSON produce a giant screen film featuring Writer/Producer/ Dr. Jane Goodall. Most recently he was Director, Cosmic Picture the executive producer for National Daniel Ferguson entered Parks Adventure. Mike currently serves the giant screen industry as chair of the board of directors of the in 1998 as a producer and Giant Dome Theater Consortium, the distributor for Primesco Communications. consortium of seven U.S. science He was line producer on Lost Worlds: museums housing giant dome theaters. Life in the Balance, and distributed He is a past president of GSCA and a Wolves, Wildfire: Feel the Heat, Bears former board member of the Association and India: Kingdom of the Tiger. After of Midwest Museums. leaving Primesco in 2002, he worked MARY JANE DODGE as co-writer and associate director on Senior Project Director, Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de MacGillivray Freeman France, line producer and script editor Films on Journey to Mecca, and creative A veteran of the giant consultant for MacGillivray Freeman screen industry for nearly Films. Daniel wrote and directed 38 years, Mary Jane opened her first Jerusalem and is currently working theater back in 1980 when she launched on Superpower Dogs and Einstein’s . He is a past member To Fly! For 20 years, she worked on the Incredible Universe theater side of the industry, overseeing of the GSCA board of directors and the successful launch and operation of former co-chair of the Professional
54 Development Committee. He graduated C-level roles, whose mandates were McGill University with a degree in to develop a new business. Between Theology and has a diploma from 1986 and 2000, he started and led Vancouver Film School. giant screen theater and film divisions at IMAX Corporation and Ogden BARBARA FLAGG Entertainment. Paul developed Director, Multimedia strategic marketing acumen through Research his early-career work in brand Dr. Barbara Flagg is management at Procter & Gamble. He Director of Multimedia has a Bachelor of Commerce degree Research, a consulting from Queen’s University in Canada. group that specializes in front-end, See www.BlazeCineworks.com formative, and summative evaluations of technology-based informal education RICK GORDON products for children and adults. Dr. Flagg President and has been involved in the evaluations Co-founder, RPG of 19 giant screen films and associated Productions outreach products. NSF-sponsored Rick has worked on summative evaluations are available more than 60 giant on informalscience.org. screen projects, both 2D and 3D. Recent giant screen credits include PAUL FRASER Hearst Castle: 20th Anniversary Edition Founder/President, (producer); Extreme Weather (co- Blaze Cineworks, LLC producer); Journey to Space 3D Blaze Cineworks is a (co-producer & visual effects consulting and project supervisor); Titans of the Ice Age 3D management firm (co-producer & visual effects specializing in business development supervisor); Mysteries of China (post and planning for digital cinema, in all supervisor); Aircraft Carrier (post the forms it can take—flat screen and supervisor & 3D producer); Dream Big dome (including fulldome), 2D/3D/4D— (digital post supervisor); and We, The for museum and commercial sectors, Marines (digital post supervisor). His and all functions—exhibition, production work includes post supervision for two and distribution. One of Blaze Cineworks’ Academy Award-nominated films, specialties is guiding museum-theater Amazon and Special Effects. Feature- clients, as an owner’s rep, through the length giant screen credits include business and programming planning Disney’s Beauty and The Beast, The for, and often the acquisition of, a new Lion King, and Treasure Planet; James digital projection system. Blaze also Cameron’s DeepSea Challenge; National helps develop films through planning Geographic’s U2-3D; and Studio Canal’s and executive production services and Fly Me to the Moon. Rick currently handle film licensing assignments. serves on the Board of Directors for the Content projects include developing GSCA, and previously served on the 360° video and virtual reality projects Board of Directors of the LFCA. that are companions to GS films. Paul has held newly created positions and
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PAM HARTLEY overseeing a four-person marketing Vice President for Play team. In addition to her experience at Initiatives, Marbles Kids COSI, Chris has experience in consumer Museum and IMAX products sales and business-to-business Theatre marketing for professional services. Pam Hartley leads play MARLENE JANETOS initiatives at Marbles Kids Museum and Vice President of Visitor IMAX Theatre. She leads efforts to design Services and Marketing, and deliver fun and immersive exhibits, Museum of Discovery film experiences, events, programs and and Science community partnerships. Pam has been Marlene Janetos has with Marbles and its predecessor served at the Museum of Discovery and museum, Exploris, for 24 years. She Science in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was part of the leadership team that since 2002. She directs all marketing, developed and opened the initial public relations, and advertising efforts museum, museum school, and IMAX in addition to overseeing visitor theater, and then merged two museums services, membership, graphics, to create Marbles Kids Museum and IMAX theater, retail, and concession IMAX Theatre in 2007. Over the past operations. Janetos spent four years 10 years, Team Marbles has worked to at the Orlando Science Center and was ensure that the museum has one, unified part of the opening teams of three cross-campus culture, with strong venues: Daytona Beach Ocean Center, operational systems, film content Orlando Arena, and Big Bear Arena selection, and shared play experience. & Fitness Center. Janetos holds a Pam grew up on the production sets of Bachelor’s degree in Journalism: Yorkshire Television, and wanted to be a Advertising/Public Relations. She is a host on BBC’s Blue Peter when she grew graduate of the IAAM “Ogelby” Public up. A kids museum with an IMAX is the Assembly Facility Management School. next best thing. She currently serves on the Promotions CHRIS HURTUBISE Committee of Visit Florida, the Senior Director of membership committee for GSCA and Marketing and is an American Express Leadership Communications, COSI Alumni now serving on the alumni committee summit task force. Chris Hurtubise is an experienced giant screen VALENTINE KASS theater and marketing professional Program Director, working for COSI–The Center of Science National Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio. Chris Foundation has been with COSI for 18 years and has For the past 16 years at been associated with the giant screen the National Science theater for 14 years. In her role at COSI, Foundation (NSF) Education she is the Senior Director of Marketing & Directorate, Valentine has served as Communications and is responsible for Program Director in the Advancing marketing of the National Geographic Giant Screen Theater as well as Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program (formerly the Informal Science
56 Education (ISE) program), where she VALERIE KNIGHT manages the AISL media portfolio. WILLIAMS The two most recent LF films in her Valerie is Co-Director portfolio include Amazon Adventure of Knight Williams, Inc., and Flight of the Butterflies. Valentine a California-based also serves as the Manager of NSF’s corporation which Antarctic Artists and Writers Program specializes in the research, development, in the Polar Division and had the and evaluation of nationally distributed privilege of spending Christmas at the media-based health and STEM education South Pole last year. She is a veteran of programs targeting diverse audiences in the GS industry, having been involved informal and formal educational settings. with the GSCA (and its predecessors Related to the giant screen industry, STC, ISTC, GSTA) for almost 30 years. Valerie directed the evaluations for the She has attended all but two of the 2008 Symposium Connecting Society to organization’s annual meetings Science: The Greater Potential of Giant since 1988. Screen Experiences and the 2013 Setting MARK E. KATZ the Agenda for Giant Screen Research Senior Vice President, Workshop. She has collaborated on the Distribution & Theater front-end and formative evaluations for Development, Giant several giant screen film projects funded Screen Films and by the NSF and directed the summative D3D Cinema evaluations for: Mysteries of the Unseen World, Sea Monsters, Forces of Nature, Prior to joining Giant Screen Films/D3D Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, and Jane Cinema, Mark Katz was President of Goodall’s Chimpanzees. Her team is Distribution for National Geographic currently planning the summative Studios, where he successfully launched evaluation for Amazon Adventures and and built one of the industry’s leading will subsequently conduct foundational distribution companies. Prior to that, work for evaluation and research studies Mark was President of Distribution for for Secrets of the Universe. nWave Pictures, Vice President of Sales for Sony Pictures Classics, and IMAX BRAD LISLE Corporation. Mark has released and Producer/Director, distributed some of the most diverse, Foxfire Interactive original, and successful films in the Brad Lisle is an interactive history of the industry over his 30-year media producer/director/ career. They include a wide array of instructional designer who highly acclaimed documentary, specialty, specializes in science education. In 2000, art and independent films, such as Brad founded Foxfire Interactive to create Jerusalem, The Human Body, Oceanmen, web and giant screen cinema experiences Titans of the Ice Age, U23D, Rolling that help make science exciting and Stones at the Max, Titanica, and Fires of understandable to audiences around Kuwait, as well as the highly acclaimed the world. Clients include some of the feature films The First Grader, Amreeka, world’s foremost educational institutions The Last Lions, and Restrepo, which was and biopharma companies. Brad currently ® nominated for an Academy Award . serves as producer/director and co-
57 Principal Investigator for the Global KENT MAAHS Soundscapes Project—funded by the Director of Sales & Retail National Science Foundation. This project Operations, Science targets middle school students and Center of Iowa and Blank focuses on the science of sound and the IMAX Dome Theater emerging field of soundscape ecology. As a Director with the Project components include an interactive Science Center of Iowa & its IMAX Dome theater show that combines a live Theater, Kent oversees not only the presenter with the giant screen/IMAX theater operations, but all other related, experience. Before founding Foxfire, Brad front-end areas—Box Office, Café/ developed interactive media for WGBH Concessions & Sales Office. He has and more than 20 science museums worked diligently to engage the public around the world. Early in his career, by scheduling the highest quality Brad was a science educator at Boston’s documentaries, but also pushing DMR Museum of Science, where he gave and alternative content in all venues of presentations on topics ranging from his institution. Located in the heart of Des lightning to superconductors. Moines, the Science Center of Iowa and DANI LEBLANC its IMAX Dome Theater helped the city’s Director of the Charles downtown renaissance. The expansion of Hayden Planetarium, evening events and theater offerings has Museum of Science, contributed greatly to this growth. Boston Finding unique and nontraditional uses for all venues has become a necessary As an educator, Dani brings trait for institutional theaters. This over 15 years of experience developing creative approach to expanding business and presenting live, interactive and patron-building should be a focus for astronomy shows for museum visitors, everyone in our industry. including school groups, families, general public, and adult audiences. As a JAMES NEIHOUSE, producer, she leads the development of ASC the CHP team’s fulldome shows, writing Cinematographer scripts, providing concept direction, and James Neihouse is a overseeing the creation of visual freelance cinematographer elements and soundtrack. Since the who has been involved with planetarium’s conversion to digital 4K in the giant screen film business since 1976. 2010, she has written and produced three His credits include some of the most feature shows—Undiscovered Worlds: successful films in the format, including The Search Beyond Our Sun, Moons: The Dream Is Alive, Space Station 3D, Worlds of Mystery, and From Dream to Hubble 3D, and A Beautiful Planet. In Discovery: Inside NASA—and overseen 1980 he was cinematographer for The and contributed to the production of Eruption of Mount St. Helens, the first numerous original arts, music, and giant screen film to be nominated for an experimental programs for the dome. Ms. Academy Award. Neihouse’s work has LeBlanc has a B.A. in Astronomy and taken him from the Arctic Circle to the Physics from Boston University. jungles of India, from South Pacific coral
58 reefs to Sub-Saharan Africa, and from EDGAR RODRIGUEZ the decks of The America’s Cup yachts IMAX Dome Manager, to the cockpit of the Space Shuttle. Tijuana Cultural Center In his work with NASA, he has trained Edgar is a Tijuana native more than 26 shuttle and space station who studied Latin American crews on the intricacies of large format Literature at the Universidad filmmaking. He is a member of the Autónoma de Baja California. He also has American Society of Cinematographers a background in film studies and has (ASC), and the Academy of Motion produced a couple of short films. Since Picture Arts and Sciences, 1994 he has worked with cultural entities cinematography branch. in the city of Tijuana. He started working ROBERT for the Tijuana Cultural Center in 2003, PATTERSON being appointed the IMAX Dome Computer Graphics manager in 2008. Visualization Artist/ ROBIN SIP Designer, NCSA’s Director of Show Advanced Visualization Production & Content, Lab, University of Illinois Evans & Sutherland; Robert collaborates with scientists, CEO Mirage3D technologists, and other artists to Robin is founder and produce cinematic visualizations of director of Mirage3D and an award- scientific data. He has art directed and winning pioneer of special venue 3D created virtual camera choreography cinema. Founded in 1999, Mirage3D, for visualizations that have appeared in based in the Hague, Netherlands, is a IMAX 3D, feature film, broadcast leading production firm in the field of television, and fulldome planetarium digital dome media production (aka productions. Robert co-created Virtual “fulldome”). He originally trained as a Director, a virtual reality computer computer engineer, then became a 3D graphics tool for interactively designing modeler and later a writer/director. camera moves. He has used Virtual Robin entered the fulldome field in 1988, Director and other technologies to gaining experience in the Omniversum collaboratively design immersive Space Theatre in the Hague, at Evans & journeys through scientific data to Sutherland and the London planetarium. inspire broad public audiences about He’s made 20 fulldome shows, including astrophysics, earth systems and other a number of popular favorites and scientific domains. Recent AVL financial successes, including Two Small productions include creating Pieces of Glass, Dawn of the Space Age, visualizations for IMAX’s A Beautiful Origins of Life, Natural Selection and Planet (2016) and Hubble 3D (2010), Dinosaurs@Dusk. The Mirage3D’s The Tree of Life feature film (2011) productions play in over 700 fulldome and fulldome productions Solar theaters and science centers around the Superstorms (2015), Dynamic Earth world. Dawn of the Space Age became (2012) and Black Holes: The Other the world’s first 3D fulldome film and Side of Infinity (2006). is the most licensed fulldome film in the industry.
59 GARY M. TIMKO, has been instrumental in the build PH.D. out of two, 3D screening rooms, Senior Research the implementation of TVIPS and Associate, Center for RV to support simultaneous, multi- Research and Evaluation, site reviews and the integration of COSI SGO Mistika into the Legend Dr. Timko will provide a brief overview review systems. of the benefits and limitations of PAUL WILD evaluation data and facilitate a Theatre Director, IMAX discussion with expert panelists about Victoria Inside the Royal how to collect and interpret data to BC Museum measure the impact of the giant October 2016 marks the screen film experience. He received 14th anniversary for Paul a Doctorate degree in Education in the giant screen industry. During this Research and Evaluation from The time and with credit towards a Ohio State University. He has 18 years commitment to film marketing and a of experience conducting research and great team of staff and management, program evaluation in the areas of IMAX Victoria has continually been a non-profit social service providers, top performer in the industry. In state government, and formal and addition, Paul has implemented and informal education and learning maintained the most successful annual environments. He joined the staff at pass program in the IMAX world, with the Center of Science and Industry around 19,000 to 20,000 members (COSI) in 2015 as a Senior Research annually. In 2008 his projection booth Associate. team was awarded the Best Booth NANCY WANG Award courtesy of IMAX Corporation. Director of Post- While essentially operating as an Production, Legend independent commercial theater, Paul has also had the benefit and Nancy joined the experience of operating within the company in 2010, and environment of a mission-based prior to that edited for institution—the Royal BC Museum. broadcast television and marketing for His 20+ years of professional hotel clients such as The Discovery Channel, management experience within Travel Channel, MTV and Sony Pictures the tourism and hospitality field Home Entertainment. Throughout complements his approach to the her seven-year tenure at Legend, giant screen industry. Over the years she has provided editorial support he has contributed to the GSCA for theatrical stereo conversion, 4K through a long-standing involvement and multi-camera, high frame rate on the Professional Development VR projects for North American Committee and is a GSCA Operations. She has been highly board member. involved in the technical project management and pipeline integration of Legend’s Depth Grade process, and
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