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1 Table of Contents GSCA Contacts 4 Schedule Giant Screen Cinema Association 7 Sponsors 624 Holly Springs Road, Suite 243 8 Map Holly Springs, NC 27540 U.S. giantscreencinema.com 10 New Films facebook.com/giantscreencinema 16 Films in Production twitter.com/gsca Instagram: gsca1 24 Projects in Development linkedin.com/groups/1046547 29 Trailers Tammy Seldon 32 Symposium Sessions Executive Director 35 Presenters Office: 1-919-346-1123 Mobile: 1-703-855-3699 Advertiser Index [email protected] BIG & Digital, LLC 28 Cosmic Picture 5 Kelly Germain December Media Distribution back cover Director of Membership and Evans & Sutherland inside back cover Communications Office: 1-651-917-1080 Giant Screen Cinema Association 34 Mobile: 1-651-270-4915 ImagesInSound 7 [email protected] IMAX Corporation 3 K2 Studios 13 Eileen Pheiffer MacGillivray Freeman Films 20, 21 Accounting nWave Pictures Distribution 9 Office: 1-314-725-7020 SK Films inside front cover, 1 Mobile: 1-314-708-0448 Visceral Image Productions 25 [email protected]
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Sunday, March 10: Pre-Expo Day TIME EVENT LOCATION 8:00 am Official Start of Film Expo
8:00 am - 6:00 pm Registration and Information Hilton: Lobby
9:00 am - 11:30 am GSCA Board Meeting (breakfast served) Hilton: Mandarin B
Committee Meetings (snacks served): Hilton: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm - Technical Mandarin A - Industry Development Mandarin B
2:00 pm - 8:30 pm Film Rehearsals AMC IMAX Theater
Committee Meetings: Hilton: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - Event Planning Mandarin B - Member Services Mandarin A
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Distributors Interest Group Meeting* Hilton: Mandarin A
Dinner on your own
Monday, March 11: Film Expo Day 1 TIME EVENT LOCATION Breakfast on your own
8:00 am Walk to Theater
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration and Information AMC IMAX Theater
8:30 am - 8:45 am Welcome AMC IMAX Theater
8:45 am - 9:30 am Film 1: Apollo 11: First Steps (2D) AMC IMAX Theater
9:30 am - 10:15 am Film 2: Hidden Pacific (2D) AMC IMAX Theater
10:15 am - 10:30 am Break AMC IMAX Theater
10:30 am - 11:15 am Film 3: Great Bear Rainforest (3D) AMC IMAX Theater
11:15 am - 12:00 pm Film 4: Great Barrier Reef (3D) AMC IMAX Theater
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch on your own
1:15 pm - 4:00 pm Films in Production Session AMC IMAX Theater
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Coffee break, sponsored by IMAX Corporation AMC IMAX Theater
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Film 5: Australia’s Great Wild North (3D) AMC IMAX Theater
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm Film 6: Superpower Dogs (3D) AMC IMAX Theater
Cosmic Picture Sponsored Reception Hard Rock Café 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (all attendees welcome)
7:00 pm Dinner on your own
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Tuesday, March 12: Film Expo Day 2 TIME EVENT LOCATION 8:30 am - 10:00 am Registration and Information Hilton: Foyer A 9:00 am - 10:15 am GSCA Member Meeting and Breakfast Hilton: Ballroom A 10:15 am Walk to theater 10:30 am - 5:00 pm Registration and Information AMC IMAX Theater 10:45 am - 11:30 am Film 7: Turtle Odyssey (3D) AMC IMAX Theater 11:30 am - 12:15 pm Film 8: Touch the Stars 3D AMC IMAX Theater 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Film 9: Volcanoes—The Fires of Creation (3D) AMC IMAX Theater 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch on your own 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Projects in Development Session AMC IMAX Theater 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Trailers Session AMC IMAX Theater 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm Film 10: Cuba (2D) AMC IMAX Theater 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Break 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Film 11: Mountain Quest (3D) AMC IMAX Theater 5:00 pm - 5:25 pm Film 12: Planet Power (3D) AMC IMAX Theater 5:25 pm Walk to hotel 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm GSCA Board Meeting Hilton: Mandarin AB Dinner on your own
Wednesday, March 13: Filmmaker Symposium TIME EVENT LOCATION Breakfast on your own 7:30 am - 3:00 pm Registration and Information Hilton: Foyer A 8:00 am - 8:15 am Welcome Hilton: Ballroom A Tales from the Trenches: First-Time Filmmakers Share 8:15 am - 9:30 am Hilton: Ballroom A Their Lessons Learned 9:30 am - 10:00 am The Business of the Giant Screen Hilton: Ballroom A 10:00 am - 10:15 am Break 10:15 am - 12:00 pm Understanding the Audience Hilton: Ballroom A 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch and mini trade show Hilton: Ballroom B 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm The Art of Storytelling for the Giant Screen Hilton: Ballroom A 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Walk to IMAX Theater 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm Technology & Art Tools for Giant Screen Filmmaking AMC IMAX Theater 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm Giant Screen Scenes That Have Moved and Inspired AMC IMAX Theater Reception, sponsored by FotoKem 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Hilton: Sierra Courtyard (all attendees welcome)
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9 New Australia’s Films Great Wild North PRESENTED IN 3D RELEASE: June 2018 FORMATS: 2D and 3D, Apollo 11: 15/70, IMAX Digital, First Steps IMAX Laser, DCI- ROUGH CUT compliant Digital, PRESENTED IN 2D DCI-compliant Laser, RELEASE: May 17, 2019 Fulldome Digital FORMATS: 2D and 3D, LENGTH: 36:30 15/70, IMAX Digital, PRODUCER: Wild Pacific Media and IMAX Laser, DCI- Definition Films compliant Digital, DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Studios DCI-compliant Laser, Dome-customized CONTACT: Mark Kresser, 15/70, Fulldome Digital [email protected] LENGTH: 40:00; 20-minute version in all 2D WEB: australiasgreatwildnorth.com digital formats and fulldome Few places on earth remain as wild and PRODUCER: Statement Pictures & CNN Films pristine as the Top End of Australia. It is a DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films land that time forgot. A place with some of CONTACT: Patty Collins, [email protected] the richest wetlands and oldest rainforests where ancient people lived in harmony with Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary this wild land and her beasts. The largest of the first lunar landing, Apollo 11: First dinosaurs called this land home and left Steps gives a thrilling cinematic experience their footprints in these ancient rocks, and that showcases the real-life moments of the one of their deadly relatives still lives there famed Apollo 11 mission. With never-before- today. Come on this epic scientific seen 70mm footage and a newly discovered adventure with Tommy, our native trove of audio recordings, the filmmakers Aboriginal guide, as we venture through reconstruct the Apollo 11 mission in some of the world’s most beautiful astonishing detail. Audiences will experience landscapes and travel deep into saltwater the exhilarating final moments of preparation, crocodile country. the countdown, liftoff, landing, and return of this historic mission that united the world— Cuba one of mankind’s greatest achievements. PRESENTED IN 2D An immersive giant screen experience RELEASE: Available now that takes you straight to the heart of this in 2D; 3D available May intense scientific and human endeavor, 2019 Apollo 11: First Steps leaves us marveling at FORMATS: 2D and 3D, human ingenuity and the impulse that led 15/70, IMAX Digital, humanity to space. Produced by Statement IMAX Laser, DCI- Pictures and CNN Films and distributed by compliant Digital, MacGillivray Freeman Films. DCI-compliant Laser, Fulldome Digital LENGTH: 43:50 and 20:00 PRODUCER: Golden Gate 3D
10 DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films aquatic life. Narrated by acclaimed CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] Australian actor Eric Bana, Great Barrier WEB: cuba-film.com Reef explores the awe of this natural Cuba tells the powerful story of a land environment and introduces the visionaries preserved in time yet poised on the cusp and “citizen scientists” who help us better of dramatic change. The nation’s vibrant understand and protect the reef. Grab your culture, meticulously maintained colonial mask and snorkel and join an unforgettable architecture, and pristine ecosystems adventure with majestic manta rays and sea provide a vivid window into the island’s turtles, witness the birth of baby seahorses, history and spirit. Cuba will transport participate in a coral watch expedition, and audiences across breathtaking landscapes, discover the exotic splendor of fluorescent under the ocean surface to iridescent reefs, corals at night as Great Barrier Reef and into streets throbbing with music and captures the natural beauty and exquisite dance in the heart of Havana. Through strangeness of this awesome, and vibrant the eyes of Cuban artists, historians, and living world. A December Media film scientists, the film provides an intimate produced in association with Slattery Family look this vivacious island nation. Filmed Trust, Biopixel, Soundfirm, Film Victoria, and exclusively for the giant screen format, Screen Queensland and distributed by Cuba reveals why Cuba continues to stir the MacGillivray Freeman Films. imagination of the world. Cuba is produced by Golden Gate 3D, in association with BBC Great Bear Earth, Giant Screen Films, and the Giant Rainforest PRESENTED IN 3D Dome Theater Consortium. RELEASE: February 15, Great Barrier 2019 Reef FORMATS: 2D and 3D, PRESENTED IN 3D 15/70, IMAX Digital, RELEASE: July 2018 IMAX Laser, DCI- FORMATS: 2D and 3D, compliant Digital, 15/70, IMAX Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Laser, DCI- Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital compliant Digital, LENGTH: 40:00 DCI-compliant Laser, PRODUCER: Spirit Bear Entertainment Dome-customized DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films 15/70, Fulldome Digital CONTACT: Patty Collins, LENGTH: 42:30 [email protected] PRODUCER: December Media WEB: greatbearrainforestfilm.com DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films Great Bear Rainforest is the story of one of CONTACT: Patty Collins, the rarest animals on Earth—the fabled [email protected] all-white Spirit Bear—and its ancient forest WEB: greatbarrierreeffilm.com home. Hidden from the outside world, the No structure built by living creatures Great Bear Rainforest is one of the planet’s compares to the size and majesty of the most exquisite and secluded wildernesses. Great Barrier Reef—spanning more than Found on Canada’s rugged Pacific coast, it 1,400 miles off the coast of Australia and is the largest temperate coastal rainforest in home to countless unique species of the world and is home to indigenous First
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Nations peoples, who have provided Mountain Quest stewardship of the forest for millennia. PRESENTED IN 3D Embark on a remarkable journey into a land RELEASE: 2018 of grizzlies, coastal wolves, sea otters, and FORMATS: 2D and 3D, humpback whales—and discover the secret IMAX Digital, IMAX world of the Spirit Bear. Narrated by Ryan Laser, DCI-compliant Reynolds. Great Bear Rainforest is a Spirit Digital, DCI-compliant Bear Entertainment film presented by Laser, Fulldome Digital Seaspan in association with Destination LENGTH: 38:21 British Columbia and distributed by PRODUCER: Stranger MacGillivray Freeman Films. Than Fiction Films DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Studios Hidden Pacific CONTACT: Mark Kresser, PRESENTED IN 2D [email protected] RELEASE: May 2019 A lone climber, suspended hundreds of feet FORMATS: 2D and 3D, in the air, struggles to find the next finger IMAX Digital, IMAX hold, defining progress in inches. The Laser, DCI-compliant dramatic visuals immerse us in a gripping Digital, DCI-compliant contest of human determination versus the Laser reality of gravity’s potent grip. Mountain LENGTH: 42:21 and 20:00 Quest explores the precarious relationship PRODUCER: Tandem Stills + Motion of humanity’s quest to scale some of the DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films world’s highest places, while also revealing CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] the scientific and technological advances WEB: hiddenpacific.com that have enabled us to conquer these peaks, Hidden Pacific is a pioneering film that exposing the heartbeat of the human soul. profiles some of the Pacific Ocean’s most beautiful islands and marine national Planet Power monuments—breathtaking places that will 20-MINUTE VERSION leave audiences with a deep-felt appreciation PRESENTED IN 3D for the beauty of nature untouched by RELEASE: March 2018 civilization. The storied histories of Palmyra, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, Midway and other atolls—from the WWII IMAX Digital, IMAX Pacific Theater to their present environmental Laser, DCI-compliant recovery and ecological research initiatives— Digital, DCI-compliant provide the platform from which the film Laser, Fulldome Digital explores a diversity of science and human LENGTH: 20:31 stories. Hidden Pacific is produced by PRODUCER: N3D Land Films Tandem Stills + Motion, in cooperation with DISTRIBUTOR: nWave Pictures Distribution the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and affiliated CONTACT: Janine S. Baker, Goedele Gillis, organizations, which provided the filmmakers [email protected] with unprecedented access to the bio-secure WEB: planetpower-thefilm.com zones of the marine monuments. Launching Planet Power explores the history of globally in museum, zoo, aquarium, giant electricity—from the first spark created by screen, and IMAX® cinemas on Earth Day man’s hand to today’s industrial power weekend 2019. plants. We meet scientists who changed the
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world, like Faraday, Franklin, and Tesla, and legend helping people with special needs, we glimpse the future, as Solar Impulse and the Bloodhound brothers, ‘Tipper and becomes the first plane to complete a Tony,’ who are leading the fight to save round-the-world flight powered only by the endangered species in Africa. As we sun. With a mix of chalk animation, CGI, discover the incredible abilities of dogs archival footage, and spectacular aerials, and the astonishing science behind their the film also explores the challenges ahead: superpowers, we’ll never look at our best how to meet the growing energy needs of friends the same way again! our industrialized world, while also protecting the health of our planet. Touch the Stars 3D Superpower PRESENTED IN 3D Dogs RELEASE: February 2, 2019 PRESENTED IN 3D FORMATS: 2D and 3D, RELEASE: March 15, 2019 IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, 15/70, IMAX Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Laser, DCI- Fulldome Digital compliant Digital, LENGTH: 38:00, 26:00 DCI-compatible DCI-compliant Laser, version also Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital PRODUCER: Afterglow Studios LENGTH: 44:00 DISTRIBUTOR: BIG & Digital, LLC PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Cosmic Picture CONTACT: Tina Ratterman, and IMAX [email protected] CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected]; Doris WEB: touchthestarsmovie.com Babiera, [email protected]; Antonietta Touch the Stars dramatically showcases the Monteleone, [email protected]; robotic spacecraft used in exploration of John Wickstrom, [email protected] our solar system and the galaxy beyond. WEB: superpowerdogs.com The film traces the path to space through Join an immersive IMAX adventure to the history of NASA’s probes, orbiters, and experience the life-saving superpowers and landers—from the heart of our solar system extraordinary bravery of some of the world’s and the surface of its planets and moons to most amazing dogs. In this inspiring true the grand tour of the Voyager spacecraft story narrated by Chris Evans, our best through the outer planets and beyond. friends are also real-life superheroes. Created with the cooperation of NASA and Journey around the globe to meet Lockheed Martin, and using the latest high remarkable dogs who save lives and definition imagery and scientific data, Touch discover the powerful bond they share the Stars engages audiences through the with their human partners. Follow ‘Halo,’ use of real footage and 3-dimensional a rookie puppy training to join one of the vistas, transporting us to planets and distant most elite disaster response teams in stars alongside these heroic robot explorers America. Meet ‘Henry,’ an avalanche rescue for an unforgettable voyage. Touch the expert in the Canadian Rockies, ‘Reef,’ a Stars is the second of a trilogy of films from Newfoundland lifeguard with the Italian Afterglow Studios. Space Next 3D released coastguard, ‘Ricochet,’ a Californian surf in December 2015 and was the GSCA Best
14 Visual Effects Winner in 2016. Lockheed stunning 3D. Playful sea lions, tiny sea Martin is a partner of Touch the Stars and horses, and vibrant clown fish will float right the third film. Fulldome will release in March out into the theatre! Sea turtles remind us and 180-Fulldome will release summer 2019 just how interconnected we all are in this in both run times. amazing world and audiences will be moved to cherish them even more. Turtle Odyssey PRESENTED IN 3D Volcanoes—The RELEASE: July 2018 Fires of Creation FORMATS: 2D and 3D, PRESENTED IN 3D 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX RELEASE: Fall 2018 Laser, DCI-compliant FORMATS: 2D and 3D, Digital, DCI-compliant 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome-customized Laser, DCI-compliant
THE FIRES of CREATION IN ASSOCIATION NARRATED AN SK FILMS RELEASE OF A DIGITAL CROSSING FILMS PRODUCTION ‘VOLCANOES’ WITH THE GIANT DOME THEATER CONSORTIUM FEATURING CARSTEN PETER BY ROSS HUGUET ORIGINAL SOUND SOUND VISUAL EFFECTS WRITTEN MUSIC BY DANIEL SADOWSKI DESIGN BY GEORGE FLORES MIX BY BRIAN EIMER SUPERVISOR JAIME JASSO BY KAREN GORDON, MICHAEL DALTON-SMITH & WENDY MACKEIGAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTED, FILMED 15/70, Fulldome Digital PRODUCERS JONATHAN BARKER, MICHAEL DALTON-SMITH & WENDY MACKEIGAN & EDITED BY MICHAEL DALTON-SMITH Digital, DCI-compliant
DIGITAL CROSSING LENGTH: 41:00 FILMS Laser, Dome-customized PRODUCER: Definition Films 15/70, Fulldome Digital DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films LENGTH: 42:01, shorter version also available CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, PRODUCER: Digital Crossing Films [email protected] DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films WEB: turtleodysseyfilm.com CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, [email protected] Sea turtles are some of Earth’s most ancient WEB: volcanoesfilm.com and majestic creatures. For over 100 million Volcanoes—The Fires of Creation is a tale of years, they have traversed the seas, science, culture, and thrilling adventure. For surviving multiple mass extinctions and billions of years, from the continents to the playing critical roles in maintaining healthy air we breathe and even life itself, volcanoes marine food webs. Not only do these friendly have helped forge the world we know animals captivate us as they peacefully creating extraordinary ecosystems and glide through the ocean, but their personal wildlife habitats. With over 500 active journeys of survival are equally fascinating. volcanoes, the Earth is bursting at the seams These remarkable reptiles will traverse with these forces of mass construction. The thousands of kilometres of open ocean for story of volcanoes is the story of the as long as 50 years and then, from half a planet’s creation and the story of us. With world away, migrate with mysterious intrepid explorer Carsten Peter, descend to precision back to the very beach where a lava lake in Vanuatu and visit incredible they were born—to lay eggs that will acid ponds, geysers and mineral deposit become the foundation of the next fields in Ethiopia. Visit the archaeological generation. With the turtles guiding them, ghost town of Pompeii, hydrothermal vents Turtle Odyssey’s crew voyaged the same at the bottom of the ocean and witness the thousands of kilometres to capture the devastating effects of the 2018 Kilauea wonders of their habitats. Come on an eruption in Hawaii. Audiences will be on adventure, encountering many strange and the edge of their seats as they discover compelling creatures, from enormous molten worlds in this adrenaline-filled, breaching whales to the coral wonderland immersive experience. of the Great Barrier Reef—all filmed in
15 Films in LENGTH: 42:00 Production PRODUCER: BBC Studios DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth CONTACT: Jonathan Williams, jonathan.williams@bbc.com Ancient Caves Antarctica is the most extreme continent PRESENTED IN 2D on our planet—higher, colder, and even RELEASE: 2020 drier than any other on Earth, and FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX although it is thousands of miles away, Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant what happens here affects every single Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome one of us. Temperatures can plummet Digital to -70C, freezing its ocean waters, yet LENGTH: 45:00 even in this remote, hostile habitat there PRODUCER: Oceanic Research Group is an abundance of life and beauty. To DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films discover exactly how life can thrive in CONTACT: Patty Collins, such a desolate place, this giant screen [email protected] adventure will tell the story of a year Dr. Gina Moseley is a scientist on a in the Antarctic and reveal what mission as she travels the world in her courageous scientists are learning quest to unlock the secrets of the Earth’s about the wildlife of Earth’s last ancient climate in the most unlikely of great wilderness. places—ancient caves. Her need for underwater samples leads her to world- Asteroid Impact renowned cave diver Brian Kakuk. Brian PRESENTED IN 3D can go where Gina can’t, and together RELEASE: October 4, 2019 they can reach places very few humans FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, will ever go. Ancient Caves brings science IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- and adventure together as the team compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, embarks on an expedition to some of the Fulldome Digital world’s most extreme caves, both above LENGTH: 40:00 and below the water, to learn about PRODUCER: IMAX Corporation, Apophis rapid climate change and how it has, and Pictures LLC, Huahuang Pictures DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX might, impact human civilization. Ancient CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] Caves is being shot in dome-native format in conjunction with the Giant Asteroid Impact will reveal the origins Dome Theater Consortium. of asteroids and the effects of previous Earth impacts. Delve into how these Antarctica 3D: Into the celestial bodies have shaped life on Unknown primitive Earth and the threat they pose PRESENTED IN 2D to our planet today. Learn how we RELEASE: 2020 monitor them in order to stay out of FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, their deadly path. Through the eyes of IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- scientists tasked with keeping watch compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, over our planet, see the devastating Fulldome Digital effects of a hypothetical asteroid impact,
16 portrayed on a grand scale as never Blue Whales seen before. The ways we might prevent PRESENTED IN 2D a cosmic collision are also explored. This RELEASE: March 2021 new IMAX documentary will make clear FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, it’s not a question of if an asteroid will IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- strike our planet again, but when. compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital Back From the Brink: LENGTH: 42:00 Saved From Extinction PRODUCER: Oceanic Films PRESENTED IN 2D DISTRIBUTOR: to be determined RELEASE: Fall 2019 CONTACT: Hugh Pearson, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, [email protected] IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- WEB: oceanicfilms.tv compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Blue whales grow to 100 feet long Fulldome Digital and have a heart the size of a car, yet LENGTH: 40:00 despite their great size, we know PRODUCER: Roam and Sean Casey (director) surprisingly little about them. With new DISTRIBUTOR: Cosmic Picture scientific discoveries and the latest CONTACT: Antonietta Monteleone, filming techniques we can now reveal [email protected] the secret lives of blue whales, in a story WEB: cosmicpicture.com/films/back-from- made for the giant screen. We will the-brink/ follow a team of passionate scientists Back from the Brink, from award- using the latest tech and “old fashion” winning giant screen director Sean science to reveal the blue whales’ epic Casey, is an immersive film that will migrations and intimate birthing explore extraordinary true stories of grounds. In Mexico’s stunning Gulf of animals rescued from the brink of California and off the coast of Southern extinction. Audiences will meet California we will film blue whales as California’s endearing Channel Island never before. Come with us as we Fox, the smallest canid in the world, discover the mysteries of the largest imperiled by the introduction of Golden animal that has ever lived, shown in life Eagles to their only habitat. We will size on the giant screen—a truly witness the stunning migration of the awe-inspiring experience. Blue whales— Christmas Island Red Crabs, thinned the intimate story of an iconic character dangerously by the Crazy Ant invasion. in an epic location. Oceanic Films are And, finally, we journey to Yunnan, pleased to team up with Myles Connolly China, to find the enigmatic Golden as supervising producer on this film. Monkey, high on the most-endangered Myles is a 25-year giant screen veteran primates list, living in one of the most and has collaborated on more than biodiverse and remote regions of the 40 award-winning and Oscar- world. Back from the Brink, with real nominated films. and inspiring conservation stories, will renew your hope that our threatened planet and all its inhabitants can be saved.
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Colours of China and real solutions that provide hope PRESENTED IN 2D for a planet that cannot only survive RELEASE: December 2019 but thrive for countless generations FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX to come. Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser Disneynature Penguins LENGTH: 40:00 PRESENTED IN 2D PRODUCER: Making Movies RELEASE: April 17, 2019 CONTACT: James Heyward, FORMATS: 2D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, [email protected] DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, WEB: makingmovies.co.nz/portfolio/ Fulldome Digital colours-of-china/ LENGTH: 90:00 Five colours resonate through every PRODUCER: Disneynature layer of traditional and modern Chinese DISTRIBUTOR: Walt Disney Studios life. In the centre, is yellow, surrounded CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] WEB: nature.disney.com/penguins by blue for east, red for south, white for west, and black for the north. Guided by Disneynature’s all-new feature film these profoundly influential colours, the Penguins is a coming-of-age story audience embarks on a visual journey to about an Adélie penguin named Steve discover the relationship between who joins millions of fellow males in the Colour and Chinese culture. icy Antarctic spring on a quest to build a suitable nest, find a life partner, and Cool Cities start a family. None of it comes easily FORMERLY COOL PLANET for him, especially considering he’s PRESENTED IN 2D targeted by everything from killer RELEASE: March 2020 whales to leopard seals, who FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, unapologetically threaten his happily IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, ever after. From the filmmaking team DCI-compliant Laser, Fulldome Digital behind Bears and Chimpanzee, LENGTH: 40:00 Disneynature’s Penguins opens in PRODUCER: Wild Pacific Media theaters nationwide in time for Earth DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Studios Day 2019. CONTACT: Mark Kresser, [email protected] Ireland PRESENTED IN 2D Cool Cities is an immersive global journey that explores how science and RELEASE: 2021 FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, technology together with a cultural IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- renaissance are opening the door to compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, a sustainable future in many of the Fulldome Digital world’s most iconic mega-cities. The LENGTH: 40:00 film will offer a practical vision for PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray more livable cities that all people of all Freeman Films continents can connect with and be part CONTACT: Patty Collins, of. We will showcase the human stories [email protected]
18 Ireland invites worldwide giant screen arrival. Scar, Mufasa’s brother—and audiences on an extraordinary and former heir to the throne—has plans joyful film adventure. Premiering in of his own. The battle for Pride Rock 2020, this Emerald Isle film celebrates is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy, and Ireland’s rich history, land and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba’s seascapes, language, arts, and music. exile. With help from a curious pair of A 40-minute showcase of the island newfound friends, Simba will have to nation’s natural beauty, Ireland also figure out how to grow up and take reaches for the soul of a country. Amid back what is rightfully his. awe-inspiring locations such as Giant’s Causeway, Skellig Michael, and the Cliffs Lost Empire of Angkor of Moher, the film follows Irish writer PRESENTED IN 2D Manchán Magan on his quest to RELEASE: April 2019 reconnect Irish people from around the FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, world with their land, language, and IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- stories. Premier violinist Patricia Treacey compliant Laser, Fulldome Digital and four of her teen orchestra students LENGTH: 40:00 join Manchán to lend an even greater PRODUCER: Helio Projects Asia insight into Irish traditions and culture DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Studios through the lens of music. Along the CONTACT: Mark Kresser, way they’ll also meet scientists studying [email protected] basking sharks and the adorable puffins A civilization that rose to become the of Skellig. From Dublin to Belfast, envy of the world, only to disappear... Kilkenny, Blarney Castle, and beyond, a mystery waiting to be unlocked by audiences will discover why they modern archaeologists, scientists love Ireland. and explorers.
The Lion King MFF’s New Adventure Film PRESENTED IN 2D PRESENTED IN 2D RELEASE: July 19, 2019 RELEASE: February 2020 FORMATS: 2D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- Fulldome Digital compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, LENGTH: TBD Fulldome Digital PRODUCER: Fairview Entertainment & Walt LENGTH: 40:00 Disney Pictures PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray DISTRIBUTOR: Walt Disney Studios Freeman Films CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] CONTACT: Patty Collins, From Disney Live Action, director [email protected] Jon Favreau’s all-new The Lion King A journey through time and place, this journeys to the African savanna where giant screen film will follow the trails a future king is born. Simba idolizes his made on land and sea that showcase father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart our quest to explore our world. The film his own royal destiny. But not everyone follows an adventurous Alaskan pilot in the kingdom celebrates the new cub’s and a Space Station astronaut, both continued on page 22
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FOR LEASING INQUIRIES, CONTACT: Patty Collins [email protected] Chip Bartlett [email protected] 949 494 1055 macgillivrayfreemanfilms.com 21 Films in Production
Native Americans, who share a passion Out of Bounds to inspire the next generation to seek PRESENTED IN 2D new experiences in nature, discover RELEASE: October 2019 math and science, and learn from FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, history and other cultures. They’ll take IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- audiences to spectacular locations, compliant Laser, Fulldome Digital ancient homelands, hidden treasures LENGTH: 40:00 and scenic byways, even into space. As PRODUCER: K2 Studios & Wild Pacific Media they honor the past and reach toward DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Studios the future, the film connects audiences CONTACT: Mark Kresser, to the trailblazer in us all. [email protected] WEB: outofbounds-film.com/ Ocean Currents Follow Australian Olympic gold PRESENTED IN 2D medalist Torah Bright as she journeys RELEASE: 2020 along the great American Cordillera, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, the world’s longest chain of mountain IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- ranges extending from Antarctica all compliant Laser, Fulldome Digital the way to Alaska. On the journey, LENGTH: 40:00 Torah will encounter world-class snow PRODUCER: Wild Pacific Media and athletes, scientists and environmentalists. Definition Films Discover the crucial role mountains play DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Studios in our ecosystem and everyday life, CONTACT: Mark Kresser, while witnessing the most spectacular [email protected] snowboard and ski action ever brought 500 million years ago life left this blue to the giant screen! womb and colonized the land, but we are still intricately linked to the ocean. Sea Lions: Life by a Whisker Our climates, coastlines, ecosystems, PRESENTED IN 2D and economies are tied to the perpetual RELEASE: December 1, 2019 movement of water between continents. FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, The great ocean currents are the IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- arteries and veins of Planet Earth! compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, This is the story of one particularly Fulldome Digital fascinating flow—the East Australian LENGTH: 45:00 Current, a massive oceanic river that PRODUCER: Definition Films stretches the length of Australia’s DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Studios and K2 Films east coast. Australia CONTACT: David Gross, [email protected]
22 Between a jagged cliff face and a Snow roaring ocean lives a colony of PRESENTED IN 2D Australian Sea Lions. In an environment RELEASE: Spring 2020 equally as harsh as it is beautiful, be FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX immersed in a classic coming-of-age Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant tale guided by one of Australia’s most Laser, Fulldome Digital unique, intelligent, and playful animals. LENGTH: 40:00 Take an intimate journey inside the PRODUCER: Ouragan Films colony where a life of great intimacy, DISTRIBUTOR: nWave Pictures Distribution tenderness, and clumsiness must often CONTACT: Janine S. Baker, Goedele Gillis, give way to a life of great sacrifice and [email protected] bravery. Exposed to the elements, life WEB: thefutureofsnow.com/ here can be brutal and more dramatic A meteorologist follows the movement than any scripted drama. Dive into the of a winter storm that will bring snow world of a rare Australian Sea Lion to several countries. As landscapes are pup—and meet the people who are transformed, he wonders how long this trying to save her species. magical snow scene will last.
Secrets of the Universe Toy Story 4 PRESENTED IN 3D PRESENTED IN 2D RELEASE: May 24, 2019 RELEASE: June 21, 2019 FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, FORMATS: 2D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, compliant Laser, Fulldome Digital Fulldome Digital LENGTH: 40:00 LENGTH: TBD PRODUCER: The Stephen Low Company PRODUCER: Pixar Animation Studios DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Studios DISTRIBUTOR: Walt Disney Studios CONTACT: Mark Kresser, CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] [email protected] Woody has always been confident WEB: secretsoftheuniversefilm.com/ about his place in the world and that his We are at the beginning of a period priority is taking care of his kid, whether of unprecedented technological that’s Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie advancement, catalyzing a new age adds a reluctant new toy called “Forky” of scientific discovery. Travel with us to her room, a road trip adventure on this immersive giant screen film, as alongside old and new friends will show we explore the most exciting machines Woody how big the world can be for ever conceived by man, including the a toy. Large Hadron Collider and James Webb Space Telescope. See how these new experiments allow us to look deeper into our origins, and unveil the mysteries of dark energy, dark matter and extra dimensions.
23 Projects in Into the Aurora Development RELEASE: 2021 Q4 FORMATS: 2D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, Fulldome Digital Dinosaurs of Antarctica LENGTH: 40:00 RELEASE: 2020 PRODUCER: Bifrost Media FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, DISTRIBUTOR: to be determined IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- CONTACT: Susie Kim, [email protected] compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 WEB: bifrostaurora.org LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 Into the Aurora will be the first documentary PRODUCER/ DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films about the aurora phenomenon made for CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] giant screen theaters worldwide. The Journey to the south polar landscapes of visually dramatic film will showcase the Earth 100 million years ago, a world of science of auroras in an engaging way for primitive forests and thick swamps— viewers of all ages, including for the first populated by bizarre dinosaurs and colossal time in any medium, real-time video amphibians. Enter a surreal world of Permian footage from inside the aurora—made and Triassic bug-eyed giants and egg-laying possible by a little-known NASA rocket mammals—where survival meant enduring program. In telling the true-life story of the the sunless, six-month polar winter surrounded quest to gain new insights into, and capture by meat-eaters with night vision. Join spectacular images of auroras, Into the Antarctic scientists on a quest to understand Aurora will chronicle the contributions of a Earth at a time of great climatic and geologic diverse team of participants, including upheaval… and to unravel the mystery scientists, researchers, and educators behind the largest extinction in the history across the globe. An inspiration to a broad of our planet. Made possible with support audience, the film will celebrate the sense by the National Science Foundation. of discovery, multi-disciplinary collaboration, overcoming obstacles, and ultimately the How To Be An Orangutan achievement of the project’s goals while RELEASE: 2020 contributing to the world’s knowledge of FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX auroras through the eyes of our students Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant from the University of Puerto Rico. The Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 Into the Aurora experience is packaged LENGTH: 42:00 with educational tools and curriculum that PRODUCER: December Media parents + teachers can take back and DISTRIBUTOR: December Media Distribution continue discovering the science and CONTACT: Mark Bretherton, arctic culture around the Auroras and an [email protected] interactive immersive exhibition that How To Be An Orangutan is a giant screen accompanies the film. spectacular that immerses you in the mysterious tropical jungles of Borneo to Koala Cove discover the story of Basuki, a big-hearted RELEASE: September 2020 orphan Orangutan who overcomes FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX incredible adversity to learn the skills she Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant needs for a life of freedom in the wild. Laser, Dome-customized 15/70
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LENGTH: 40:00 distributor, and we look forward to sharing PRODUCER: Amezdroz Media exciting news about the state of financing DISTRIBUTOR: to be announced for this film. CONTACT: Stephen Amezdroz, [email protected] The Planets: Our Next From its days as a provider of primary Century in Space RELEASE: Early 2021 resources, seafood, timbers, and native animal pelts: the community of this once FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX small and isolated settlement are learning Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant to embrace the concept of biodiversity. Laser LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 Today, their most treasured resources are PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films the ones they previously exploited and K2 Studios believing to be of little value in their CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] natural state. Come with us on a truly restorative journey and experience the Scale the poisonous volcanoes of Venus natural beauty of Koala Cove and the and the ancient red dunes of Mars. Bore diversity of its inhabitants, large and small. through the icy crust of Europa to imagine life in hidden seas. Fly through Saturn’s Ocean 3D dreamy rings and the alien clouds of FORMERLY TITLED PLANET OCEAN 3D Jupiter. The Planets is a journey from RELEASE: 2021 science fiction to “science vision,” an FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX aspirational imagining of the next century Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant in human space-faring achievement, Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome profiling the technological and pioneering Digital stepping stones thought necessary for LENGTH: 42:00 humankind to become a truly interplanetary PRODUCER: Principal Large Format and species. The Planets is produced by Giant Vulcan Productions Screen Films and K2 Studios, in association DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films with NASA’s Advanced Innovative CONTACT: Phil Streather, [email protected] Concepts program. WEB: www.plf.cc Ocean 3D (previously Planet Ocean 3D) is Shark Rescue RELEASE: 2020 a film about the real-life heroines and heroes who use science, ingenuity, and FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX collective action to address the big issues Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant that threaten marine environments around Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 the world. Centre stage is the ocean as an LENGTH: 42:00 interconnected life-supporting system, host PRODUCER: December Media & Sealight Pictures DISTRIBUTOR: December Media Distribution to awe-inspiring biodiversity now at risk CONTACT: Mark Bretherton, because of climate change, overfishing and [email protected] run-away pollution. Audiences will come away educated, entertained and, most Humans don’t need rescuing from sharks, importantly, inspired to action. Luke it’s sharks that need rescuing from humans. Cresswell has come on board as writer/ Meet Madi Stewart, a young, passionate director, SK Films has come on board as shark advocate, on a mission to save sharks from humans—their most fearsome predator.
26 Travel with Madi from Australia’s Great The tiger, the biggest of the big cats, is Barrier Reef to a remote island in Indonesia one of the most powerful animals to stride as she works with local villagers to transform our planet—and also one of the most their way of life from shark fishing to shark threatened by extinction. Alan Rabinowitz, tourism. Madi wants to change the way we the leading big cat conservation scientist think about sharks. What better place to of our time, ventures deep into the start than underwater? Come meet them mangrove forests of India and Bangladesh face to face in this immersive 3D adventure. seeking the little-known Sunderbans tiger. As he journeys through the remote Sharks river-forest and the villages that surround RELEASE: 2020 it, Alan encounters both the threats the FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, tiger faces, and the solutions that can save IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- it. Evoking his own childhood vow to be a compliant Laser, Fulldome Digital voice for animals, Alan shows how LENGTH: 40:00 ordinary people can become “tiger PRODUCER: Definition Films heroes.” And casting a thrilling shadow DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Studios over all the action is the magnificent, CONTACT: Mark Kresser, incomparable tiger. [email protected] Great White sharks are the apex predator Winds of Change of the sea. They are the largest of the RELEASE: February 2021 carnivorous shark species. Bull sharks FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX are smaller but often are regarded as Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant the most aggressive of all the sharks. Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 Evolution has arguably delivered the LENGTH: 40:00 perfect predators. As such, we fear and PRODUCER: Amezdroz Media are intrigued by them in equal measure. DISTRIBUTOR: to be announced Sharks deploys new science and utilizes CONTACT: Stephen Amezdroz, filming techniques never used before to [email protected] compare the physical abilities of Great Inspired by the experiences of ocean Whites and Bull sharks head to head, racer and circular economist Dame pushing their highly developed sensory Ellen MacArthur, the fastest woman to systems to the limit in virtual darkness sail around the world, Winds of Change to determine pound for pound, which follows an all-female crew in preparation species is the ultimate shark predator. for their sustainable challenge to one of the world’s most challenging blue classics. Tiger, Tiger Like Ellen MacArthur, their yacht is a RELEASE: Spring 2020 metaphor for our world, survival and FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, success is totally in their hands, nothing IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 can be left to chance. Meticulous planning LENGTH: 40:00 and design, extracting the maximum from PRODUCER: White Mountain Films, Kennedy the resources available and working Marshall, IMAX Corporation, Tiger Tiger together as a team will determine their Productions LLC fortune. The winds of change are blowing. DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected]
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Wings 3D along these “flyways.” Narrated by RELEASE: Fall 2020 Michael Keaton, Wings 3D tells the story FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, of the epic migrations of three amazing IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- bird families—the Canvasback Duck, the compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Sandhill Crane and the Eastern Bluebird— Fulldome Digital with never before seen close-ups of their LENGTH: 42:00 fascinating behaviours. Audiences follow PRODUCER: Dorsey Pictures the triumphs and challenges of these DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films remarkable creatures as they defy all CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, odds and soar across mountains, deserts, [email protected] and oceans—always searching for safe As the glaciers that once covered North havens to rest, refuel, and raise their America retreated, they left an astounding young. No matter where we live, our gift of connected rivers, lakes, and feathered friends and their wetland wetlands. Today, these largely unknown, habitats are powerful examples of how water highways remain vital for sustaining we’re all interconnected, from the Arctic all wildlife that live there and especially to the tropics and across the heartland for the magnificent birds that migrate of America.
WORLD PREMIERE MARCH 20, 2019 Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts Now Leasing! Contact BIG & Digital +1.702.932.4045 Worldwide: Tina Ratterman [email protected] Europe: Maarten Roos, PhD [email protected]
BIGandDigital.Com 28 expeditionchesapeake.org Great Barrier Trailers Reef PRESENTED IN 3D RELEASE: July 2018 FORMATS: 2D and 3D, Cuba 15/70, IMAX Digital, PRESENTED IN 2D IMAX Laser, DCI- compliant Digital, RELEASE: Available now in 2D; 3D available DCI-compliant Laser, May 2019 Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, LENGTH: 42:30 IMAX Laser, DCI- PRODUCER: December Media compliant Digital, DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films DCI-compliant Laser, CONTACT: Patty Collins, Fulldome Digital [email protected] WEB: greatbarrierreeffilm.com LENGTH: 43:50 and 20:00 PRODUCER: Golden Gate 3D No structure built by living creatures DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films compares to the size and majesty of the CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] Great Barrier Reef—spanning more than WEB: cuba-film.com 1,400 miles off the coast of Australia and Cuba tells the powerful story of a land home to countless unique species of preserved in time yet poised on the cusp aquatic life. Narrated by acclaimed of dramatic change. The nation’s vibrant Australian actor Eric Bana, Great Barrier culture, meticulously maintained colonial Reef explores the awe of this natural architecture, and pristine ecosystems environment and introduces the provide a vivid window into the island’s visionaries and “citizen scientists” who history and spirit. Cuba will transport help us better understand and protect audiences across breathtaking the reef. Grab your mask and snorkel landscapes, under the ocean surface to and join an unforgettable adventure with iridescent reefs, and into streets majestic manta rays and sea turtles, throbbing with music and dance in the witness the birth of baby seahorses, heart of Havana. Through the eyes of participate in a coral watch expedition, Cuban artists, historians, and scientists, and discover the exotic splendor of the film provides an intimate look this fluorescent corals at night as Great vivacious island nation. Filmed Barrier Reef captures the natural beauty exclusively for the giant screen format, and exquisite strangeness of this Cuba reveals why Cuba continues to stir awesome, and vibrant living world. A the imagination of the world. Cuba is December Media film produced in produced by Golden Gate 3D, in association with Slattery Family Trust, association with BBC Earth, Giant Screen Biopixel, Soundfirm, Film Victoria, and Films, and the Giant Dome Theater Screen Queensland and distributed by Consortium. MacGillivray Freeman Films.
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Great Bear Hidden Pacific Rainforest PRESENTED IN 2D PRESENTED IN 3D RELEASE: May 2019 RELEASE: February 15, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 2019 IMAX Digital, IMAX FORMATS: 2D and 3D, Laser, DCI-compliant 15/70, IMAX Digital, Digital, DCI-compliant IMAX Laser, DCI- Laser compliant Digital, LENGTH: 42:21 and 20:00 DCI-compliant Laser, PRODUCER: Tandem Stills + Motion Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films LENGTH: 40:00 CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] PRODUCER: Spirit Bear Entertainment WEB: hiddenpacific.com DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films Hidden Pacific is a pioneering film that CONTACT: Patty Collins, profiles some of the Pacific Ocean’s [email protected] most beautiful islands and marine WEB: greatbearrainforestfilm.com national monuments—breathtaking Great Bear Rainforest is the story of one places that will leave audiences with a of the rarest animals on Earth—the deep-felt appreciation for the beauty of fabled all-white Spirit Bear—and its nature untouched by civilization. The ancient forest home. Hidden from the storied histories of Palmyra, Midway outside world, the Great Bear Rainforest and other atolls—from the WWII Pacific is one of the planet’s most exquisite Theater to their present environmental and secluded wildernesses. Found on recovery and ecological research Canada’s rugged Pacific coast, it is the initiatives—provide the platform from largest temperate coastal rainforest in which the film explores a diversity of the world and is home to indigenous science and human stories. Hidden First Nations peoples, who have Pacific is produced by Tandem Stills + provided stewardship of the forest for Motion, in cooperation with the U.S. millennia. Embark on a remarkable Fish & Wildlife Service and affiliated journey into a land of grizzlies, coastal organizations, which provided the wolves, sea otters, and humpback filmmakers with unprecedented access whales—and discover the secret world to the bio-secure zones of the marine of the Spirit Bear. Narrated by Ryan monuments. Launching globally in Reynolds. Great Bear Rainforest is a museum, zoo, aquarium, giant screen, Spirit Bear Entertainment film and IMAX® cinemas on Earth Day presented by Seaspan in association weekend 2019. with Destination British Columbia and distributed by MacGillivray Freeman Films.
30 Planet Power Superpower PRESENTED IN 3D Dogs RELEASE: March 2018 PRESENTED IN 3D FORMATS: 2D and 3D, RELEASE: March 15, 2019 IMAX Digital, IMAX FORMATS: 2D and 3D, Laser, DCI-compliant 15/70, IMAX Digital, Digital, DCI-compliant IMAX Laser, DCI- Laser, Fulldome Digital compliant Digital, LENGTH: 20:31 DCI-compliant Laser, PRODUCER: N3D Land Films Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital DISTRIBUTOR: nWave Pictures Distribution LENGTH: 44:00 CONTACT: Janine S. Baker, Goedele Gillis, PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Cosmic Picture [email protected] and IMAX WEB: planetpower-thefilm.com CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected]; Doris Planet Power explores the history of Babiera, [email protected]; Antonietta electricity—from the first spark created Monteleone, [email protected]; by man’s hand to today’s industrial John Wickstrom, [email protected] power plants. We meet scientists who WEB: superpowerdogs.com changed the world, like Faraday, Join an immersive IMAX adventure to Franklin, and Tesla, and we glimpse the experience the life-saving superpowers future, as Solar Impulse becomes the and extraordinary bravery of some of first plane to complete a round-the- the world’s most amazing dogs. In this world flight powered only by the sun. inspiring true story narrated by Chris With a mix of chalk animation, CGI, Evans, our best friends are also real-life archival footage, and spectacular superheroes. Journey around the globe aerials, the film also explores the to meet remarkable dogs who save lives challenges ahead: how to meet the and discover the powerful bond they growing energy needs of our share with their human partners. Follow industrialized world, while also ‘Halo,’ a rookie puppy training to join protecting the health of our planet. one of the most elite disaster response teams in America. Meet ‘Henry,’ an avalanche rescue expert in the Canadian Rockies, ‘Reef,’ a Newfoundland lifeguard with the Italian coastguard, ‘Ricochet,’ a Californian surf legend helping people with special needs, and the Bloodhound brothers, ‘Tipper and Tony,’ who are leading the fight to save endangered species in Africa. As we discover the incredible abilities of dogs and the astonishing science behind their superpowers, we’ll never look at our best friends the same way again!
31 Symposium Sessions Understanding the Audience 10:15 am - 12:00 pm Hilton Universal City, Ballroom A MODERATOR: Mary Jane Dodge, MacGillivray Freeman Films Tales from the Trenches: PANELISTS: Mark Bretherton, December Media First-Time Filmmakers Distribution; Mark Katz, Giant Screen Films/ Share Their Lessons D3D Cinema; Julie La Roche, Montreal Learned Science Centre; Greg MacGillivray, 8:15 am - 9:30 am MacGillivray Freeman Films; John Hilton Universal City, Ballroom A Wickstrom, Cosmic Picture MODERATOR: Myles Connolly, p.g.a., In the First-Time Filmmakers session, 360-Media giant screen novices shared their PANELISTS: Peter Chang, Golden Gate 3D; lessons learned. In this session you’ll Michael Dalton-Smith, Digital Crossing hear from the veterans—producers, Films; Susan Todd, Arise Media/ Archipelago Films; Andrew Young, Arise distributors, and exhibitors—on what Media/Archipelago Films they’ve learned throughout their careers in the industry. They’ll share Even if you’ve worked in other formats, their understanding of and relationship there’s a lot to learn before you start with the audience, their own successes developing a project for the giant screen. and failures, and advice on what it In this session, filmmakers who are new takes to have longevity in the industry. to the format will share not only the lessons they learned as they made their Lunch and Mini-Trade Show first giant screen films, but also what 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm they wish they had known. From Hilton Universal City, Ballroom B production to distribution to exhibition, Enjoy lunch, provided by GSCA, learn find out how the giant screen industry more about the tools of the trade, and differs from other formats. have a chat with industry vendors during this mini trade show. The Business of the Giant Screen The Art of Storytelling 9:30 am - 10:00 am Hilton Universal City, Ballroom A for the Giant Screen 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm PRESENTER: James Hyder, LF Examiner Hilton Universal City, Ballroom A What’s in it for you? We’ll examine the MODERATORS: Phil Streather, Principal Large business model and what’s in it for all Format; Luke Cresswell, Yes/No Productions stakeholders, including filmmakers, The best giant screen films are more than distributors, and exhibitors. James just really big, beautiful images. It’s the Hyder will share industry data, examine stories we tell with those images that trends, consider the risks versus the inspire and resonate with audiences. But opportunities, review historical and what makes storytelling on the giant screen commonly accepted approaches to film unique? How do filmmakers approach distribution, and explore new tactics scriptwriting? How is shooting, editing, that are changing the status quo. and scoring different from other media?
32 Which topics and genres have worked, shade, natural light interiors, dusk, and which ones haven’t, and which ones nighttime with both practical lighting should be considered? And how does and neon lighting (theme park). The new technology, like drones and motion shots went through only a base color capture, affect storytelling? Veteran correction to match their look. They filmmakers will share how they use were displayed in their natural aspect cameras, writing, editing, music, sound, ratios (2.0:1, 1.89:1 and 1.5:1) at full and other technology to tell a story that resolution, then displayed in 4x3 with audiences remember and that can even edge cropping and blow up to fill the inspire action. full vertical height of the screen. At the symposium, GSCA is presenting Technology and Art Tools for a second phase of this test as a part of Giant Screen Filmmaking 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm the “Technology and Art Tools for Giant AMC CityWalk IMAX Theater Screen Filmmaking” session. In this case, MODERATORS: Brian Eimer, ImagesInSound; five shots from the various cameras Rick Gordon, RPG Productions have been selected and finished. The PANELISTS: Sam Cardon, Composer shots have undergone further color correction, noise reduction, highlight Giant screen films are lauded for their reduction, and converted to the 4x3 premier images and sound, but how aspect ratio using a variety of do filmmakers achieve that immersive, techniques, all maintaining the full you-are-there quality? This in-theater camera resolution. session will give you a peek inside the giant screen technical toolbox. We’ll Giant Screen Scenes That examine creative approaches to sound Have Moved and Inspired design, music composition and music 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm delivery, digital capture and lens options, AMC CityWalk IMAX Theater shooting native 3D vs. converting in MODERATORS: Luke Cresswell, Yes/No post, formatting for the dome, and Productions; Andrew Oran, FotoKem more to ensure films exceed audience What are your favorite giant screen expectations and keep them coming scenes, and why do you remember back for the giant screen experience. them? This curated, in-theater session High Resolution Digital Camera will feature some of the most Comparison (HRDCC) Phase 2 memorable and inspiring clips on the In September 2018, in Chattanooga, the giant screen, followed by Q&A with GSCA presented a program entitled the filmmakers and distributors as they HRDCC, in which five high-resolution share how these scenes were captured cameras used for giant screen capture and what makes them so special. were compared. The cameras used were ARRI Alexa 65, Panavision DXL-2, Reception, sponsored Canon C700 Full Frame, Sony Venice, by FotoKem and Red Monstro. The cameras were 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm, Hilton Sierra Courtyard placed side by side for an apples-to- Join your colleagues for cocktails and apples comparison of how they share learnings from the Filmmaker performed when shot in bright daylight, Symposium.
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INTERNATIONAL DOME DAY CONFERENCE AND September 13 TRADE SHOW Science World September 10-12 British Columbia IMAX Victoria in the Royal Vancouver, Canada BC Museum and the Fairmont Empress Hotel Victoria, British Columbia Registration and film Canada submissions open in April 2019
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Mark Bretherton Peter Chang Head of Distribution, Director/Producer/ December Media Distribution Cinematographer, Golden Mark Bretherton has Gate 3D been in the giant screen Peter H. Chang is an business for 22 years. He award-winning director, has 20 years of experience operating, producer, and cinematographer marketing, and programming IMAX based in San Francisco, California. theatres in Australia. He is now Head His work for the giant screen includes of Distribution for December Media Jerusalem, winner of the Giant Screen and is seeing a different side to the Cinema Association Award for Best giant screen industry. Cinematography and Best Film, Panama: A Land Divided, a World Sam Cardon United, National Park Adventure, Composer Planet Power, and the upcoming Cuba. Sam Cardon is an Emmy- His film Deus Ex Homine was awarded winning composer whose Nvidia’s Best 3D Video and is featured credits include 17 large on NBC Universal’s Best of 3D blu-ray. format films and over 60 His work is featured in the HBO independent features and documentaries. documentary series The Weight of He also has extensive television credits, the Nation and the music video for having created theme music for Coldplay’s “Midnight” which launched National Geographic Explorer, Good their Ghost Stories album and tour. Morning America, NBA ON TNT, ABC Peter produced, directed, and shot the Sports, CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX film San Francisco Flow for Samsung national network campaigns as well and the television series Lightscapes as music for two different Olympic for Discovery. Games in Calgary and Salt Lake City. In the past eight years he has enjoyed Myles Connolly, success in the video game industry p.g.a. creating extensive theme music, Producer, 360-Media theatrical trailers, and in-game music Myles has filmed in more for the World Of Warcraft, Overwatch than 40 countries during and Hearthstone video game his 30-year career and franchises, winning G.A.N.G. and filled a number of production and Hollywood Music In Media awards postproduction roles along the way, for his work. His recent work in large including producer, writer, picture format includes Mysteries of China editor, and VFX supervisor. He has and the recent reboot of Hearst Castle: worked extensively in the large format Building The Dream. He has composed
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genre on more than 30 giant screen Pulse: a STOMP Odyssey, Wild films, including the high-profile projects Ocean, The Last Reef, and Great White Everest, The Living Sea, Flight of the Shark. He has also received a special Butterflies, Oceans: Our Blue Planet, achievement award from the Chicago Amazon Adventure, Backyard Human Rhythm Project. More recently Wilderness, and many more. With more he and Steve McNicholas have created than 15 years of experience in various the Lost and Found Orchestra, which 3D formats, Myles is considered an explores found sound on an orchestral expert in this very demanding field. level. Working alongside some of the best talent in the film business, his efforts Michael Dalton- have helped garner numerous awards, Smith including the Cine Golden Eagle, Director/Executive Producer, multiple Lumiere Awards for 3D, the Digital Crossing Productions Grand Prix du Festival at the Theater An adventurer with over du La Geode in Paris, the Best 3D/ 15 years of experience Immersive award at the Jackson Hole filming in some of the most remote and Wildlife Film Festival, and two Academy challenging places in the world, Michael Award nominations in the Short has led the way in the production of Documentary category. He is a proud factual Canadian/International member of the Producer’s Guild of television programming. He is the America and lives in Ojai, California, Director/Producer of Volcanoes—The with his wife, Jeanette. Fires of Creation for giant screens, and several TV series, including Volcanic Luke Cresswell Odysseys, Kenya Wildlife Diaries and Composer/Director, Yes/No Nomads of the Serengeti, which air Productions on Smithsonian, National Geographic, Luke Cresswell is a self- and Discovery Channel. Michael has taught percussionist from received multiple award nominations Brighton, UK. His session at the 2017 Canadian Screen Awards work as a drummer and rhythm and most recently won the prestigious programmer includes Beats International, Lumiere Award for Best 3D Bette Midler, Elvis Costello, and Bryan Documentary for Volcanoes. Ferry. After working for several years as a street musician and performer, he Mary Jane Dodge first created STOMP in 1991. His work Senior Project Director, as a performer in STOMP includes the MacGillivray Freeman Films Oscars, the Emmys, and Quincy Jones’ A veteran of the giant album, Q’s Jook Joint. He has directed, screen industry for 39 with Steve McNicholas, several award- years, Mary Jane opened winning commercials and short films. her first theater back in 1980 when He received an Oscar nomination for she launched To Fly! For 20 years, the film Brooms, an Emmy nomination she worked on the theater side of the for Stomp Out Loud and co-directed industry, overseeing the successful the award winning giant-screen films launch and operation of numerous
36 IMAX theaters, including Boston’s SK Films and Cuba for Giant Screen Films. Museum of Science and the Denver His passion for creating immersive Museum of Nature & Science, and soundtracks gives each project the consulting for over 28 different uniqueness that the story and format institutions around the world, including deserves. He’s been recognized twice the Smithsonian Institution and the by the GSCA with two Best Sound Museum of Science in Barcelona. She Design awards for Wild Ocean 3D and also helped develop the commercial The Last Reef. giant screen theater industry by launching and operating one of the first Rick Gordon commercial IMAX theaters in New York President and City while working for Sony Theatres. Co-Founder, RPG In 2006, she joined MacGillivray to Productions coordinate the marketing and distribution Rick has worked on of films and develop new film projects. more than 70 giant She was the Executive Producer of screen projects, both 2D and 3D. Dream Big: Engineering Our World, Recent giant screen credits include released in 2017. At MacGillivray, she’s Back From The Brink (post supervisor); discovered the incredible teamwork it Hearst Castle: 20th Anniversary Edition takes to make a film and loves being in (producer); Aircraft Carrier (post the office the first day the crew gets supervisor & 3D producer); Extreme back from a big shoot to hear all their Weather (co-producer); Journey to stories firsthand. Space 3D (co-producer & visual effects supervisor); Dream Big (digital post Brian Eimer supervisor); Titans of the Ice Age 3D Senior Sound Designer/ (co-producer & visual effects President, ImagesInSound supervisor); Mysteries of China (post Brian Eimer is an award- supervisor); and We, The Marines winning giant screen sound (digital post supervisor). His work designer and re-recording includes post supervision for two mixer. He’s worked in the giant screen Academy Award-nominated films, industry for over 25 years, winning Amazon and Special Effects. Feature- numerous best sound awards, most length giant screen credits include recently a Golden Reel Award from Disney’s Beauty and The Beast, The the Motion Picture Sound Editors for Lion King, and Treasure Planet; James Journey to Space 3D. He’s a member Cameron’s DeepSea Challenge; National of the GSCA technical committee, Geographic’s U23D; and Studio Canal’s Canadian Academy of Cinema and Fly Me to the Moon. Rick currently Television, and Motion Picture Sound serves on the Board of Directors for the Editors. His facility in Toronto was GSCA and previously served on the upgraded to the new IMAX 12.0 Board of Directors of the LFCA. Immersive Audio format in 2015, and he’s completed several soundtracks in this new format, most recently Volcanoes—The Fires of Creation for
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James Hyder Pictures, Vice President of Sales for Editor, Publisher, LF Examiner Sony Pictures Classics, and IMAX LF Examiner is edited and Corporation. Mark has released and published by James Hyder. distributed some of the most diverse, He has worked in the giant original, and successful films in the screen industry since 1984 history of the industry over his 30-year and has experience in all phases of the career. They include a wide array industry: production, distribution, and of highly acclaimed documentary, exhibition. In the 1970s, James worked specialty, art and independent films, hands-on in audio and video production. such as Jerusalem, The Human In 1984 he started working at the Body, Oceanmen, Titans of the Ice Langley IMAX theater at the Smithsonian’s Age, U23D, Rolling Stones at the National Air and Space Museum. As Max, Titanica, and Fires of Kuwait, as manager of the most popular IMAX well as the highly acclaimed feature theater in the world, he learned the films The First Grader, Amreeka, The concerns of exhibitors. While at NASM Last Lions, and Restrepo, which was ® he assisted in the development and nominated for an Academy Award . production of several IMAX films, including Cosmic Voyage, although he Julie La Roche Director of Business modestly declines to accept any direct Development, Old Port of credit for its Oscar nomination. In his Montreal and Montreal Science last position at the Smithsonian, James Centre researched the GS distribution business and reported on establishing a film Julie La Roche entered the distribution office for the Smithsonian. giant screen industry more than 20 ® In 1997 James founded MaxImage!, the years ago as Director of the IMAX 3D first independent publication dedicated Theatre at the Old Port of Montreal. In exclusively to the GS industry. He has 2000, she was an integral part of the been its editor and publisher through project team who oversaw the expansion its renaming to LF Examiner in late of the stand-alone commercial theatre 2000 to the present day. into a major education-based institution, the Montreal Science Centre. As the Mark E. Katz Director of Business Development for Senior Vice President, the MSC and the Old Port of Montréal, Distribution & Theater her portfolio includes leading strategic Development, Giant Screen development activities, new business Films and D3D Cinema initiatives, and sponsorships for the Prior to joining Giant IMAX TELUS Theatre, the Montreal Screen Films/D3D Cinema, Mark Katz Science Centre Foundation and the was President of Distribution for Old Port of Montréal. Despite the National Geographic Studios, where challenging business environment he successfully launched and built one (more than 12 IMAX screens operated of the industry’s leading distribution by three different organizations in the companies. Prior to that, Mark was city of Montréal), the MSC’s TELUS President of Distribution for nWave IMAX Theatre remains among the
38 top-attended giant screen venues in Andrew Oran the world. Julie’s team was awarded the SVP & GM Feature Sales & GSCA’s 2009 and 2016 Achievement Marketing, FotoKem Award for Big Idea and 2012’s Andrew Oran serves as Achievement Award for Best Film SVP & GM Feature Sales & Launch by a Theatre. Over the years she Marketing for FotoKem. He has contributed to the GSCA through spearheaded FotoKem’s Large Format the Conference Planning and Award unit, which has provided lab and digital Committee and she is a GSCA board services for 65mm and mixed format member. projects since 2004. Recent giant screen films include America’s Musical Greg MacGillivray Journey and Great Barrier Reef. Recent Producer/Director/Chairman, 70mm feature films include Dunkirk, MacGillivray Freeman Films 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Phantom Since the 1976 production Thread, as well as an 8K remastering of his first giant screen of My Fair Lady. Andrew’s giant screen film, To Fly!, Greg film experience dates back to 1994 and MacGillivray has produced some of the IMAGICA USA, where he supervised most enduring films in the giant screen optical effects and format conversions genre, including the box-office hit on giant screen and special venue films. Everest. With 40 giant screen films in Andrew has served on the Board of 42 years to his credit, he has shot more Directors for GSCA, the Large Format 70mm film than anyone in cinema Cinema Association (LFCA), and history and is the first documentary Euromax. filmmaker to reach the $1 billion benchmark in worldwide ticket sales. Phil Streather Greg has received two Academy Award CEO, Principal Large Format nominations for Best Documentary Phil founded and is CEO Short Subject for The Living Sea and of Principal Large Format, Dolphins. To Fly! has played non-stop a production company for 42 years at the Smithsonian’s dedicated to developing National Air & Space Museum, and and producing 3D giant screen (IMAX) in 1996, To Fly! was selected by the features, 3D Theatrical Documentary Library of Congress for inclusion in features, and 3DTV. Phil was the the National Film Archives, along with producer of award-winning Bugs! 3D, Citizen Kane and Gone With The Wind, was co-producer and Stereo Supervisor as one of the most important films of on Meerkats 3D and was the Stereo the 20th century. In 2002, the Giant Supervisor on Tiny Giants 3D. Other Screen Theater Association honored 3D credits include The London Eye 4D Greg as one of the five most important Experience, Carmen in 3D, and Madam contributors to the success of the Butterfly 3D. Phil also devised and industry. In 2013 Greg and MacGillivray ran Advanced 3D: The National Freeman Films received the Founders Stereoscopic Training Programme in Award from the IMAX Maximum Image the UK in 2010/2011, funded by Skillset Awards at the GSCA conference. and Sky 3D.
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Susan Todd Cosmic Picture, National Geographic, Director/Producer, the Museum of Science and Industry, Archipelago Films/Arise Media and nWave Pictures. He was a Susan Todd is an Academy distributor of Antarctica, and distributor Award-nominated, Emmy and Production Executive on Mysteries Award-winning Director/ of Egypt, both in the IMAX Hall of Producer. As co-founder of New Fame. He served as NSF Co-Principal York-based production company Investigator, Executive Producer, and Archipelago Films, Todd has directed, Distributor for Solarmax. produced, and written television and theatrical films that explore cutting- Andrew Young Director/Producer/Director of edge stories about nature and people’s Photography, Archipelago lives, with the highest production value. Films/Arise Media Todd’s latest film is Backyard Wilderness, a 3D giant screen/IMAX Andrew Young is an film, which won Best Short Film, Best Academy Award Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, nominated, Emmy Award winning and Best Life Long Learning at the Director/Producer/Director of GSCA Awards in 2018. It was produced Photography. Drawn to stories where by Archipelago Films and Arise Media, the lives of humans intersect with the a non-profit she co-founded to create nature, Young’s latest film is Backyard ® groundbreaking media about the Wilderness, a 3D giant screen/IMAX most urgent social and environmental film, which swept the 2018 GSCA challenges of our time. At Archipelago Awards, winning Best Short Film, Best Films, she has directed, produced Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, and recorded sound for both and Best Life Long Learning. Young’s documentaries and fiction work, such world-class cinematography is shot as Children of Fate, Americanos, The primarily in 4K and 8K digital where he Last Royals, Lives in Hazard, and uses probe lenses, inventive motion- Madagascar: A World Apart, broadcast control rigs, time-lapse, and high-speed on HBO, Cinemax, National Geographic, frame rates to capture wildlife and NBC, and PBS. Todd has worked landscape in never-before-seen ways. previously as a producer at PBS’s At Archipelago Films, he has directed WNET, holds a Masters in Journalism and filmed both documentaries and from Columbia University and studied fiction work, such as Children of Fate, filmmaking at Harvard University. Americanos, The Last Royals, Deadly Messengers, and Madagascar: A World John Wickstrom Apart with HBO, Cinemax, National Vice President, Film Geographic, the BBC, and PBS. With Distribution, Cosmic Picture a Master’s Degree from Yale University John has more than 25 in Physical Anthropology, he has years’ experience in extensive experience in science and production, distribution animal behavior. and exhibition of giant screen films with
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