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Film Expo Sunday, March 8: Pre-Expo Day Monday, March 9: Film Expo Day 1 (continued)

TIME EVENT LOCATION TIME EVENT LOCATION Rehearsals—refer to schedule available at GSCA 4:30 pm – 5:15 pm Film 5: Museum Alive! (digital 3D) AMC IMAX Theater All Day AMC IMAX Theater registration desk or at giantscreencinema.com 5:15 pm – 6:00 pm Film 6: Dark Universe (digital 3D) AMC IMAX Theater 8:00 am 24-Hour Rule begins 6:00 pm Dinner on your own 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration and information Hilton: Lobby Tuesday, March 10: Film Expo Day 2 9:00 am – 11:30 am GSCA Board Meeting (breakfast served) Hilton: Club Room TIME EVENT LOCATION GSCA Committee Meetings 7:30 am – 9:30 am Registration and Information Hilton Ballroom A • Marketing and Member Services Hilton: Mandarin B 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GSCA Member Meeting and Breakfast, • Technical Committee Hilton: Sierra Suite 8:00 am – 9:30 am Hilton: Ballroom A • Professional Development Committee Hilton: Mandarin A sponsored by nWave Pictures Distribution 9:30 am Walk to theater GSCA Committee Meetings 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm • Conference Hilton: Sierra Suite 10:00 am – 5:30 pm Registration and Information AMC IMAX Theater • Lifelong Learning Hilton: Mandarin A 10:00 am – 10:30 am Film 7: Galapagos 3D: Nature’s Wonderland (digital 3D) AMC IMAX Theater 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Alternative Content Special Interest Group* Hilton: Mandarin B 10:30 am - 11:15 am Film 8: Robots 3D (digital 3D) AMC IMAX Theater 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Distributors Interest Group Meeting* Hilton: Salon 5 11:15 am - 12:00 pm Film 9: Antarctica 3D: On the Edge (digital 3D) AMC IMAX Theater 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm 3D Film Interest Group* Hilton: Sierra Suite Film 10: Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm AMC IMAX Theater 3D (digital 3D) Monday, March 9: Film Expo Day 1 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch on your own TIME EVENT LOCATION 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Film 11: Penguins 3D (digital 3D) AMC IMAX Theater Breakfast on your own 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm Film 12: Tiny Giants 3D (digital 3D) AMC IMAX Theater 7:30 am Walk to theater 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm Film 13: Antarctica’s Penguin Emperors 3D (digital 3D) AMC IMAX Theater 7:30 am - 5:00 pm Registration and Information AMC IMAX Theater 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Break 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Film 14: Remnants (digital 2D) AMC IMAX Theater 8:00 am – 8:15 am Films in Production 15/70 AMC IMAX Theater 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Film 15: The Great Apes 3D (digital 3D) AMC IMAX Theater Film 1: Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Secret Ocean 3D 8:15 am – 9:15 am AMC IMAX Theater (15/70 3D) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm GSCA Board Meeting Hilton: Hiro Dinner on your own 9:15 am – 10:15 am Film 2: Journey to Space (15/70 3D) AMC IMAX Theater 7:30 pm GSCA cocktail party Hilton 10:15 am – 10:30 am Break AMC IMAX Theater 10:30 am – 11:30 am Film 3: Humpback Whales (15/70 2D) AMC IMAX Theater Filmmaker Symposium Wednesday, March 11: Filmmaker Symposium Day 1 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Lunch on your own AMC IMAX Theater TIME EVENT LOCATION 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Research Task Force Lunch Meeting TBD 7:30 am – 3:00 pm Registration and Information Hilton: Ballroom A 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Film 4: Living in the Age of Airplanes (digital 2D) AMC IMAX Theater Breakfast on your own 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Projects in Development Session AMC IMAX Theater Welcome: Setting the Stage for the Filmmaker 8:30 am – 9:00 am Hilton: Ballroom A 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Films in Production Digital Session AMC IMAX Theater Symposium

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Wednesday, March 11: Filmmaker Symposium Day 1 (continued) TIME EVENT LOCATION Mining the Data: Using Industry Research to Get 9:00 am – 9:45 am Hilton: Ballroom A Films Made and On Screens 9:45 am – 11:00 am Mysteries of Programming Revealed Hilton: Ballroom A

11:00 am - 11:15 am Break FotoKem 11:15 am - 12:30 pm The Business of Giant Screen Films Part One Hilton: Ballroom A 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch on your own Hilton 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm The Business of Giant Screen Films Part Two Hilton: Ballroom A 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Walk to AMC IMAX Theater 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Registration and Information AMC IMAX Theater 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Storytelling: The Art of the Giant Screen AMC IMAX Theater 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Field trip to FotoKem FotoKem is located at • Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, 2801 W. Alameda, sponsored by FotoKem Burbank • Tours of how the FotoKem lab works AMC Universal Buses leave from Hilton Ballroom Circle; CityWalk IMAX continuous return service until 9pm Theater Hilton Los Angeles Thursday, March 12: Filmmaker Symposium Day 2 Universal City TIME EVENT LOCATION Breakfast on your own 7:30 am – 8:00 am Walk to Theater 7:30 am – 11:00 am Registration and Information AMC IMAX Theater 8:00 am – 11:15 am Giant Screen Filmmaking—Behind the Scenes: AMC IMAX Theater Bringing Back our Wide Shots (BBOWS): Post Treatment Filmout, Digital; Digital Capture Experiments for the Giant Screen; Audio: Recording, Mixing, Sound Design 11:15 am – 11:40 am Walk to Hotel Hilton 11:40 am – 5:00 pm Registration and Information Hilton: Ballroom A 11:40 am – 1:00 pm Giant Screen Filmmaking—Behind the Scenes: Hilton: Ballroom A Production and Post-Production Workflow (P3W) Overview; Time-Lapse, Cameras, P3W Considerations; Cameras for the Giant Screen; AMC Universal CityWalk Hilton Los Angeles FotoKem Christie Presentation IMAX Theater Universal City 2801 W. Alameda 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Mini Trade Show and Lunch Hilton: Ballroom B 100 Universal City Plaza 555 Universal Hollywood Drive Burbank, CA 91505 3:00 pm – 6:30 pm Giant Screen Filmmaking—Behind the Scenes: Hilton: Ballroom A Universal City, CA 91608 Universal City, CA 91608 1-818-846-3102 Stereo 3D; The Post Environment (Mistika 1-818-508-0711 1-818-506-2500 Site of field trip on March 11 Presentation); Underwater 3D; Visual Effects for the Giant Screen; Final Q&A 6:30 pm Dinner on your own 8:00 pm GSCA cocktail party Hilton

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Antarctica 3D: This family-friendly film was shot on location in Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, and GOTO the world’s rarest primates. Featuring chimpanzees, On the Edge Antarctica, the southernmost region on the planet. INC, Tokyo, Japan. Dark Universe is also available bonobos, orangutans, and the magnificent Presented in digital 3D The story follows a colony of Emperor Penguins as for fulldome digital planetarium display in 2D. mountain gorillas, the film captures the emotional RELEASE DATE: September they emerge from the sea and begin their long connection we all experience when encountering 2014 march 60 miles inland during the cold winter. Galapagos 3D: such extraordinary creatures. This is the mesmerizing AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D and Presented in stunning 3D, this true-life tale will Nature’s odyssey of Holly Carroll, a passionate zoologist 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, warm the hearts of audiences as they witness the Wonderland who explores the dense rainforests and remote IMAX Digital hardships and sacrifices of these curious creatures Presented in digital 3D jungles of Africa and Indonesia to study the lives LENGTH: 36:15 and 20:00 in their fascinating triumph over the elements. RELEASE DATE: February 7, of these intelligent and curious animals. Walking in (36:15 version will be screened at Film Expo) Audiences will get a first-hand look at the animal 2014 the footsteps of her lifelong heroes, Dr. Dian PRODUCER: Oceans 8 Films, DQBD Films and Giant inhabitants of Antarctica and the lives, rituals, and AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D and Fossey and Dr. Jane Goodall, Holly also highlights Screen Films camaraderie of the Emperor Penguin. 3D, DCI-compliant Digital some of the challenges the great apes face in their DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films & D3D Cinema LENGTH: 22:22 increasingly threatened habitats. A fascinating CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] Dark Universe PRODUCER: Atlantic Productions story of discovery and an unforgettable adventure. With a reputation as cold, forbidding, and remote, Presented in digital 3D DISTRIBUTOR: nWave Pictures Distribution Antarctica can also be a fragile place, home to an RELEASE DATE: October 2014 CONTACT: Janine Baker, Jennifer Lee Hackett, Humpback Whales Goedele Gillis, [email protected] incredible variety of life along its edges. Join National AVAILABLE FORMATS: 3D, Presented in 15/70 2D Geographic explorer Jon Bowermaster as he and his DCI-compliant Digital, In the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, there is a RELEASE DATE: February 13, team travel along the continent’s frozen coastline in Fulldome digital (2D) paradise unlike any other: the Galapagos. 2015 Antarctica 3D: On the Edge. The adventurers explore LENGTH: 25:15 Amongst these remote volcanic islands, life has AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D and by sea kayak, ice-worthy sailboat, and on foot to PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: played out over millions of years in relative 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant gain an up-close look and attempt to better American Museum of isolation. The result is a wonderland of nature, Digital, IMAX Digital, understand just how the seventh continent is Natural History with a remarkable collection of plants and Dome-customized 15/70 CONTACT: Matt Heenan, [email protected] LENGTH: changing—and in some parts changing very fast—in charismatic animals that have all adapted to this 39:10 part due to a warming ocean. Meet scientists and Rendered in 4k and released for the first time in unique environment. Meet giant half-ton tortoises PRODUCER: MacGillivray Freeman Films DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films the wildlife they study up-close and learn about the 3D for giant screens, the American Museum of and marine iguanas that spit sea-salt. Dance Distribution Company history of exploration and the continent’s future. Natural History’s latest space show Dark Universe with the tropical albatrosses and hunt fishes with CONTACT: Bob Harman, [email protected] From its place anchoring the bottom of the globe, celebrates the pivotal discoveries that have led the colorful blue-footed boobies. Swim with tiny Antarctica might seem too frozen to have any impact us to greater knowledge of the structure and penguins thousands of miles away from their Narrated by two-time Golden Globe® nominee on the rest of the planet. But the very fact that it is history of the universe—and to new frontiers for natural habitats. Narrated by Jeff Corwin, this is a Ewan McGregor, Humpback Whales is an constantly changing—the sea around it freezing and exploration. Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, story of discovery, of survival against the odds, extraordinary journey into the mysterious world of thawing every year—makes it the planet’s beating Dark Universe whisks audiences out of the Milky and of nature’s ingenuity, all brought to life in one of nature’s most awe-inspiring marine heart, its rhythm intimately influencing the earth’s Way galaxy, drops them alongside a parachute stunning 3D. mammals. Set in the spectacular waters of weather, ocean currents, and climate. descending through Jupiter’s atmosphere, and Alaska, Hawaii, and Tonga, this ocean adventure brings them all the way to the afterglow of the Big The Great offers audiences an up-close look at how these Antarctica’s Penguin Bang while revealing the breakthroughs that have Apes 3D whales communicate, sing, feed, play, and take Emperors 3D led astronomers to confront two great cosmic Presented in digital 3D care of their young. Captured for the first time Presented in digital 3D mysteries: dark matter and dark energy. In RELEASE DATE: February 13, with IMAX® 3D cameras, and found in every RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2014 stunningly detailed scenes based on authentic 2015 ocean on earth, humpbacks were nearly driven to AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D and 3D, scientific data—including an astonishing look at AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D and extinction 50 years ago, but today are making a DCI-compliant Digital our universe in 3D and innovative visualizations of 3D, DCI-compliant Digital slow but remarkable recovery. Join a team of LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 unobservable dark matter—Dark Universe explores LENGTH: 20:15 researchers as they unlock the secrets of the (40:00 version will be a new age of cosmic discovery and reveals the PRODUCER: VisionQuest humpback and find out why humpbacks are the screened at Film Expo) mysteries that have been brought to light so far. Entertainment most acrobatic of all whales, why they sing their DISTRIBUTOR: nWave Pictures Distribution PRODUCER: Passmore Lab Dark Universe was released for fulldome digital haunting songs, and why these intelligent, CONTACT: Janine Baker, Jennifer Lee Hackett, DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications display in November 2013, and was developed by 55-foot, 50-ton animals migrate up to 10,000 Goedele Gillis, [email protected] CONTACT: Mark Kresser, the American Museum of Natural History, New York miles round-trip every year. A MacGillivray [email protected] (www.amnh.org), in collaboration with the California nWave Pictures Distribution presents The Great Freeman film presented by Pacific Life. Apes 3D, bringing us face to face with some of

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NEW SPECIAL SCREENING RE-EDIT Jean-Michel Station, and the Hubble telescope. Journey to IN DIGITAL 3D Cousteau’s Secret Space recognizes these accomplishments in the Now Available Worldwide TUESDAY - 5:00 P.M. Ocean context of our future in space, what we’ve learned, 38- AND 20-MINUTES AT THE AMC THEATER Presented in 15/70 3D and how to apply this knowledge to deep space RELEASE DATE: March 2015 missions. The film takes audiences behind the AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D and scenes of the international effort to send 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant astronauts to Mars within the next 20 years, Digital, IMAX Digital, culminating in a virtual voyage to the Red Planet. Dome-customized 15/70 Dazzling computer imagery depicts the new LENGTH: 42:00 machines, spacecraft, and landers necessary for PRODUCER: Ocean Futures Society, 3D interplanetary travel and colonization. This film is Entertainment Films about the next chapter, a vision certain to inspire DISTRIBUTOR: 3D Entertainment Distribution young explorers and dreamers. It is time to take CONTACT: Francois Mantello, the next great leap into space, to set sail across [email protected] the cosmic ocean. Next stop...Mars! Available in Narrated by renowned oceanographer Dr. Sylvia all 2D and 3D formats. 20-minute version Earle, Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Secret Ocean brings available version in May 2015. Presented by to large format screens a breakthrough look at a Toyota and Boeing, produced by K2 secret world within the ocean that is perhaps the Communications and Giant Screen Films in biggest story of all—that the smallest life in the sea association with the Giant Dome Theater is the mightiest force on which we all depend. Consortium. Additional production support by The TUESDAY - 2:00 P.M. TUESDAY - 10:00 A.M. Alongside marine biologist Holly Lohuis, Jean-Michel Smithsonian Institute, The Kennedy Space Center, AT THE AMC THEATER AT THE AMC THEATER Cousteau invites audiences to dive into this whole the California Science Center and NASA. 46 theaters 48 theaters new world that will leave them in awe of the beauty 14 countries 16 countries and diversity of the oceans—the source of all life on Living in the Age our planet—and inspire an even stronger desire to of Airplanes protect what they have either seen for the first time Presented in digital 2D or perhaps re-discovered along the journey. RELEASE DATE: April 10, 2015 Journey to Space AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D, Presented in 15/70 3D 15/70, DCI-compliant RELEASE DATE: February 2015 Digital, IMAX Digital, AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D and Dome-customized 15/70 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant LENGTH: 47:00 LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES - KEY ART EXPLORATION PHASE 3 | 431372 | 02.09.15 | ROUND 12 COMP #76 Digital, IMAX Digital, PRODUCER: Terwilliger Productions Dome-customized 15/70, DISTRIBUTOR: National Geographic Studios Fulldome Digital CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] LENGTH: 42:00 and 20:00 Living in the Age of Airplanes is a story about (42:00 version will be screened at Film Expo) how the airplane has changed the world. PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications and Filmed in 18 countries across all 7 continents, Giant Screen Films it renews our appreciation for one of the most CONTACT: Mark Kresser, extraordinary and awe-inspiring aspects of the [email protected] modern world. The film is produced and Journey to Space celebrates space exploration and directed by Brian J. Terwilliger (One Six Right), the international cooperation toward our future narrated by Harrison Ford, and features an WEST COAST USA: EAST COAST USA: INTERNATIONAL: beyond Earth’s orbit—a manned mission to Mars. original score by Academy Award-winning Janine Baker Jennifer Lee Hackett Goedele Gillis The film is a capstone space film, chronicling the composer James Horner. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] shuttle orbiter program, the International Space +1 818-565-1101 +1 386-256-5151 +32 2 347-63-19

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Museum Alive! time in a King Penguin’s life, when he is driven to THEY'RE COMING... Robots 3D alone for the first time. Facing experienced rivals Presented in digital 3D nurture and defend his offspring against harsh Presented in digital 3D and huge predators, our chipmunk hero must ASIMO CHIMP ROBONAUT 2 RELEASE DATE: May 2015 weather and fierce predators. This cosmic drama Are You Ready? RELEASE DATE: June 2015 find courage to gather enough nuts for winter. AVAILABLE FORMATS: 3D, plays out in one of Earth’s last great wildernesses, AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D and Forced out of the family home, our adolescent

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Atlantic Productions journey through his species’ central rite of passage. HeRB NAO ATLAS LENGTH: 40:00 becomes an adult. Only by using their ingenious NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC STUDIOS Presents “ROBOTS” A DAY’S END PICTURES PRODUCTION A FILM BY MIKE SLEE Narrated by Simon Pegg Promotional Partners Sound Design by BRIAN EIMER Music by MARK KORVEN Edited by HARRY MILLER III, A.C.E , JIM RUXIN, A.C.E Director of Photography SEAN MACLEOD PHILLIPS, A.S.C Written by RICHARD PANEK MIKE SLEE JINI DURR Executive Producers BROOKE RUNNETTE LISA TRUITT Produced by JINI DURR Directed by MIKE SLEE Scan to see the robotsfilm.com CONTACT: John Morris, teaser trailer. PRODUCER: National “superpowers” can our heroes stay alive and [email protected] Remnants Geographic Studios, Day’s End Pictures become masters of their universe. Audiences are transported into a world-class Presented in digital 2D DISTRIBUTOR: National Geographic Studios museum late at night, where by the magic of RELEASE DATE: Now available CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] Walking with incredible VFX the most fascinating exhibits of AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D, Humans do amazing things, all the time, without Dinosaurs: extinct creatures come alive. The sheer fun of DCI-compliant Digital, even thinking. It takes 34 muscles to move your Prehistoric experiencing this visually stunning fantasy-come- Fulldome Digital fingers and thumb and more than 80 billion Planet 3D true is simply the entry point for some serious LENGTH: 35:15 neurons to think. Humans use 300 muscles just Presented in digital 3D PRODUCER: Grant Wakefield/ science: What’s the evidence that these animals to stand still! Imagine trying to build a machine RELEASE DATE: July 2014 Sky-Skan ever existed? How did they appear when alive? that can move like a human, think like a human, AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D and DISTRIBUTOR: Grant Wakefield/Sky-Skan and How did they live—and die out? Everything is or even simply stand still like a human. Robots 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, seeking additional distribution based on the latest scientific research and will explore building state-of-the-art humanoids IMAX Digital CONTACT: Grant Wakefield, [email protected] bound together with take-way facts and figures. and witness the trials and tribulations. You’ll LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 (40:00 version will be screened at Film Expo) Set in one of the world’s most spectacular Before the invention of the written word, in one meet the leading humanoids of today, many of PRODUCER: BBC Earth and Reliance Entertainment museums, the film is also a hymn to the mission of the longest cultural developments in history, which are already performing previously in association with Evergreen Studios of the world’s great cultural institutions. Museum the people of the Neolithic civilization of Europe unimaginable tasks such as walking, talking, and DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth and Giant Screen Films Alive! will be available in a 20:00 version and an constructed ever more complex stone monuments. thinking. Robots 3D will introduce you to future CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] IMAX Digital version in late 2015 or 2016. Their reasons for doing so are unclear to this day, challenges and the real world needs for robots, in and their people have vanished largely without a way only the giant screen can show you! Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D is Penguins 3D trace. Presented in 2k digital widescreen, and set an exciting adventure that transports audiences Presented in digital 3D only to an original 5.1 score by Tangerine Dream Tiny Giants 3D back to Cretaceous Alaska. The main characters in RELEASE DATE: 2013 member Thorsten Quaeschning, Remnants utilizes Presented in digital 3D the story are a herd of large, frilled, plant eating AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D and highly stylized motion controlled time-lapse to explore RELEASE DATE: May 2014 dinosaurs—Pachyrhinosaurus. The film follows their 3D, DCI-compliant Digital their extraordinary achievements, capture the austere AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D and youngsters, and from the moment they hatch, they LENGTH: 22:14 beauty of these “Megalithic” sites, suggest rationales 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, face predators, weather extremes, and natural PRODUCER: Atlantic for their being, and pose an important question for IMAX Digital disasters as they fight for survival through the Productions our times. History has proven no civilization can last LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 seasons. It’s an epic yet intimate story, and DISTRIBUTOR: nWave indefinitely. Is it not unlikely we shall share the same (40:00 version will be audiences of all ages will empathise with them Pictures Distribution fate? The available principal release versions, both screened at the Film Expo) and their struggles, just as they do with animals in CONTACT: Janine Baker, Jennifer Lee Hackett, with 5.1 audio, are: 2k DCP (2048 x 858 @ 24fps) PRODUCER: BBC Earth contemporary wildlife documentaries. The film is Goedele Gillis, [email protected] 4k fulldome (4096 x 4096 @ 30fps.) Originally DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth and Giant Screen Films an immersive 3D experience, the characters Narrated by David Attenborough, Penguins 3D photographed primarily at 4k resolution, customized CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] animated throughout, against real backgrounds. celebrates the destiny of a very special King versions in other formats (i.e. IMAX Digital) and/or Tiny Giants 3D reveals the astonishing lives of It’s the most authentic dinosaur experience ever to Penguin, who returns to his birthplace in the with a shorter running time are available on request. small animals in a world of giants. Using the be seen on the giant screen. The animals’ bodies sub-Antarctic. Known as Penguin City, the island is There is a sister project called Ancient Skies, a incredibly immersive power of specialist 3D and movements have been precisely built up from home to hundreds of albatrosses, fur seals, and narrated presentation which explores the Archeo­ cameras, audiences will be transported in a very fossil evidence, and their behaviour is derived from brawling elephant seals—as well as six million astronomical Side of the neolithic structures in Europe. intimate way into another world and experience palaeontology and detailed knowledge of modern penguins! Somehow our hero must earn his place Ancient Skies was produced in Digital Fulldome with the titanic battles these creatures face to survive. animal behaviour, giving these creatures an among the island inhabitants and fulfill his a running time of 46 minutes. There is also a 25 A chipmunk in a wild wood and a scorpion amazing realism. destiny by finding a mate and raising a family. version, and the sountrack is available in English, mouse in Arizona’s scorched deserts are both What follows is the story of the most challenging German, or Finnish, with other versions pending. forced to grow up fast when they find themselves

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wt = working title n ft = final title America Wild: U.S. of birds. Revolutionary aerial techniques and In Saturn’s Rings newly processed images from humanity’s National Parks state-of-the-art 3D cameras fly wingtip to ft, presented in digital 2D space missions, including Cassini-Huygens, wt, presented in 15/70 2D wingtip with some of the world’s most RELEASE DATE: 2015 Apollo, Voyagers 1 & 2, Hubble, Solar RELEASE DATE: February 2016 charismatic birds. On their fantastic journeys FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, Dynamics Observatory, Messenger, Lunar FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant the birds visit some of the most spectacular IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, Reconnaissance Orbiter, and many more. Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70 animal events and locations on earth. It is a Fulldome Digital Leading astrophotographers have contributed LENGTH: 40:00 totally immersive experience—at times the LENGTH: 40:00 500,000 photographs of the night sky, PRODUCER: MacGillivray Freeman Films flocks seem to fly out of the screen. It is a PRODUCER: SV2 Studios including the highest-resolution multi-day time- DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films whole new way of exploring the natural world, DISTRIBUTOR: BIG & Digital lapse of the Milky Way ever photographed. The Distribution Company as birds time their seasonal journeys to CONTACT: Tina Ratterman, result is a groundbreaking visual epic that is CONTACT: Bob Harman, coincide with some of the most intriguing [email protected] the closest experience to flying through space [email protected] events in nature they soon become immersed Fly through space and explore the wonders of and time possible without a personal The U.S. National Park Service turns 100 years in great animal migrations, strange animal the universe as science meets art on the giant spacecraft. Set to powerful music and dense old in 2016, marking a major milestone in the happenings and awe-inspiring landscapes. In screen. Created from over two million real sound design, In Saturn’s Rings appeals to the preservation of America’s wild, pristine spaces. this thrilling experience the 3D cameras plunge photographs from space missions and great human yearning to explore, to question, America Wild: U.S. National Parks (working the audience into the heart of these natural historical sources, all animated to full motion, to discover. Formerly title Outside In. title) brings the magnificence of these events. Through the eyes of birds, Earthflight audiences will journey from the Big Bang to landscapes to the giant screen and introduces 3D shows the spectacles of our planet as the awe-inspiring rings of Saturn. In Saturn’s us to compelling individuals who live, explore, never before. Rings showcases stunning, rarely-seen and or work in these great places. Today’s national parks system includes over 400 iconic Extreme Weather landmarks—spectacularly wild and beautiful wt, presented in digital 2D places like Yellowstone, Yosemite, the RELEASE DATE: 4th quarter 2016 Everglades, and Glacier National Park that FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant represent the heritage and spirit of America Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, and make a rich pallet for a giant screen film. Fulldome Digital LENGTH: 40:00 The planets, stars, and everything With its stunning natural landscapes and you can see are less than 5 percent powerful personal stories, America Wild leads PRODUCER: National Geographic Studios and of the universe. What is the other 95 audiences on an awe-inspiring “off-trail” Sean Casey percent? adventure into the mountains and canyons of DISTRIBUTOR: National Geographic Studios CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] the great outdoors, revealing a tapestry of natural wonders that, in naturalist John Muir’s Extreme Weather comes to us from famed This film explores pivotal words, “gives strength to the body and soul.” storm chaser Sean Casey. This dramatic and breakthroughs that have led A MacGillivray Freeman film in partnership exciting film will take us inside hurricanes, astronomers to confront two great with Brand USA. lightning and tornadoes, drought and floods. cosmic mysteries: We will see lightning move in a slow-motion dark matter and dark energy. Earthflight 3D dance, and travel on a groundbreaking mission wt, presented in digital 3D to record the first vertical scans of a tornado. RELEASE DATE: 2015 We will be going inside an extraordinary Trailer and details at: FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, wind-generating lab that can create winds up www.amnh.org/films IMAX Digital to 190 mph and maintain those winds for LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 12 hours to replicate the exact conditions of For licensing information, contact: PRODUCER: John Downer Productions a hurricane. Extreme Weather will examine Matt Heenan DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth and Giant Screen Films these forces of nature so we can better [email protected] (212-769-5131) CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] understand them and prepare ourselves for Dark Universe was developed by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in collaboration with the California Academy of Earthflight 3D takes the audience on an when they strike. Sciences, San Francisco, and GOTO INC, Tokyo, Japan. incredible flight across the world on the wings

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Life in Space beginning to appear on many bucket lists. wt, presented in digital 2D There is a wealth of historical, literary, and RELEASE DATE: March 2016 scientific material concerning the aurora. FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant These themes will be interwoven into a film Digital, IMAX Digital that follows three very different personalities LENGTH: 45:00 for whom the aurora has become a passion: PRODUCER: December Media a physicist (from Australia), an astronaut DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films (from America), and a financial advisor CONTACT: Bob Harman, turned full-time auroral photographer [email protected] (from Norway). For science the heavy lifting is over, a new era of space exploration has begun. It’s the search Predator to find something that changes everything . . . wt, presented in digital 2D signs of life, somewhere else in the universe. RELEASE DATE: 2016 NASA is breaking ground on a new brand of FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, science—Astrobiology. We already know that IMAX Digital life in space exists, because that’s what we LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 are, as are all things that live on our planet. PRODUCER: Silverback Films and BBC Earth Life in Space is a journey that takes us from DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth and Giant Screen Films the depths of the Pacific Ocean, to Europa, the CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] ice moon of Jupiter, back in time to when Mars Predator deconstructs the world of major was a virtual Eden, and out into the far predators as never before, taking an intimate reaches of space in search of planets like look at the remarkable strategies they use to ours. It will make you re-examine such succeed. Advanced filming techniques expose fundamental questions as: “Where did we the planet’s top predators in extraordinary come from?”, “How did we get here?” and “Are footage, putting the audience right beside we alone?” them as they hunt—on land, under the sea or in the air. Far from a film about the kill, Majestic Lights – Aurora instead the audience will be emotionally wt, presented in digital 2D engaged with the key characters, learning how RELEASE DATE: 2017 these supreme species must be at the very FORMATS: 2D, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Digital peak of performance to have any chance of LENGTH: 40:00 success. Their backstory will be a key part of PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Keo Consultants the narrative; to understand a cheetah’s CONTACT: Robert Eather, [email protected] dilemma you must meet her hungry cubs and The aurora borealis (and aurora australis) is realize hyenas are her deadly enemy. Top arguably Earth’s most spectacular natural predators occupy an apex position within the visual phenomenon. But auroras are mostly habitats they dominate and, alongside confined to polar skies, so most residents of dramatic animal behaviour, Predator reveals Planet Earth will never get to see a grand the unique relationship between predators display. Nevertheless, modern digital and prey as a fundamental building block photography has resulted in an exponential of ecology. increase in auroral videos, especially online, and a trip to the Arctic to see the aurora is

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Sea of Love 3D narration around the Solar Impulse flight and The Force Awakens will be the first film in the cascading along raging rivers or sheltering ft, presented in digital 3D using multiple cinematographic techniques, planned third Star Wars trilogy. It stars John coral cities. Audiences will be plunged into RELEASE DATE: 2017 Solar Impulse 3D will show what made this Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, fantastic places and meet amazing creatures. FORMATS: 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, journey possible: the adventurous Piccard Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von On the journey through the magical realms of IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, family and both the technological and human Sydow, with Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Africa, we’ll discover the fascinating secrets of Fulldome Digital achievements of the Solar Impulse team. But it Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and this enchanted kingdom. How spectacular LENGTH: 45:00 will give a greater focus on sustainable Kenny Baker reprising their roles from previous thermal geysers help turn thousands of PRODUCER: Achtel Pty. Ltd. energies, for audiences of all ages and from all films. The story is set approximately 30 years flamingos pink, and create the perfect DISTRIBUTOR: TBD horizons to discover and understand what are after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). conditions for them to breed; how elephants CONTACT: Pawel Achtel, [email protected] the energetic issues our planet is facing today Directed by J.J. Abrams and produced by Walt navigate scorched plains to find hidden water; We often overlook the presence of love in the and the solutions lying ahead. Exploring Disney Pictures, Lucasfilm, and Abrams’ Bad and why it snows on the equator. It’s an life of sea animals—within their families, science, technology, and human values, the Robot Productions. adventure where you will truly believe the real communities, schools, and friendship circles. film will educate and appeal to all for many world is more extraordinary and awe-inspiring The Sea of Love explores the many ways years, and will show that there is hope in Tomorrowland than any fiction. marine animals show their love for one making the world a better place. ft, presented in digital 2D another. Watch underwater beings develop RELEASE DATE: May 22, 2015 Wild Flight friendships, romantic liaisons, parental bonds, Space Next 3D FORMATS: 2D, IMAX Digital wt, presented in digital 3D and fulfill their community duties. Whether it wt, presented in digital 3D LENGTH: TBD RELEASE DATE: September 2015 involves sacrifice, sharing and caring, or flirting, RELEASE DATE: May 15, 2015 PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Disney FORMATS: 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Digital singing, dancing and romancing, the theme is FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, CONTACT: Gina Glen, gglen@imax.com LENGTH: 40:00 one of attraction, attachment, and care for IMAX Digital, Fulldome Digital Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, PRODUCER: Colossus Productions others. It begins where love is irrelevant—with LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 optimistic teen bursting with scientific DISTRIBUTOR: Atlantic Productions the spectacle of mass coral spawning, the PRODUCER: Afterglow Studios curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor CONTACT: John Morris, ultimate in indiscriminate coupling—but then DISTRIBUTOR: TBD jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger- [email protected] reveals the intimate and social bonding CONTACT: Luke Ployhar, [email protected] filled mission to unearth the secrets of an The ability to fly is one of the greatest behaviour of the ocean’s real lovers. Filmed Space Next takes us on a journey of mankind’s enigmatic place somewhere in time and miracles in the natural world. Millions of with newly developed 3D underwater housing pursuit to reach the stars. From the beginning space that exists in their collective memory creatures soar above our heads today, using a technology by a cameraman with over 15 of our earliest dreams that sparked the as “Tomorrowland.” fabulous variety of techniques to defy gravity years’ experience filming underwater, Sea of imagination, to the machines that took us and master their aerial environment. Wild Love offers a sharpness and quality never there. The space race that inspired generations Wild Africa 3D Flight 3D uses the very latest science and before experienced on giant screen. and the inventions that have changed the wt, presented in digital 3D stunning special effects to uncover the world forever. But now, a new era in space RELEASE DATE: December 2015 300-million-year story of flight as never before. Solar Impulse 3D travel has dawned. Space Next looks to inspire FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, The most advanced filming technology allows wt, presented in digital 3D a new generation to look once again to the IMAX Digital us to show the beauty and excitement of life RELEASE DATE: February 28, 2016 stars. To reveal the possibilities of what is to LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 on the wing, from the fastest predatory falcons FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant come next. A new era of ideas and innovations PRODUCER: BBC Earth, in association with to the most acrobatic of insects, night flyers Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, that open the doors to the future of space Evergreen Studios like owls and bats, and the soaring and gliding DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth, Giant Screen Films, 4K/3D travel and development. specialists capable of travelling huge Reliance Entertainment and IM Global LENGTH: 40:00 distances. Audiences will truly enter the CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] PRODUCER: N3D Land Films Star Wars: The Force Awakens amazing world of these remarkable animal DISTRIBUTOR: TBD ft, presented in digital 3D Come with us on a spectacular 3D ride across, aviators, and leave the theatre both stunned CONTACT: Pascal Vuong, [email protected] RELEASE DATE: December 18, 2015 over, and through the magical realms of the by the spectacle and thrilled by the story of In 2015, Solar Impulse 2 will be the first solar FORMATS: 3D, IMAX Digital most dramatic continent on Earth: Africa. Our Wild Flight. airplane completing a round-the-world tour. LENGTH: TBD guide through this enchanted kingdom is the But Solar Impulse is above all a symbol of how PRODUCER: Disney, Lucasfilm and Bad Robot sorcerer itself—water. Water crafts wild Africa, pioneering spirit, innovation, and sustainable DISTRIBUTOR: Disney conjuring up life wherever it journeys . . . energies can change the world. Articulating CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] travelling above the plains on seasonal winds,

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wt = working title n ft = final title Amazon Adventure wt solar system and a close look at the “city- Mediterranean earthquakes and tsunami destroyed Earth Story wt RELEASE DATE: 2016 buster” asteroid, Apophis, this new IMAX Cleopatra’s Palace at Alexandria, and drowned two RELEASE DATE: March 2017 FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant documentary will tell you everything about the nearby cities—Canopus and Heracleion. In recent FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70 massive space rocks that shape our universe years, a large multinational team led by celebrated Digital, IMAX Digital LENGTH: 40:00 through amazing and devastating collisions. marine archaeologist Franck Goddio, using LENGTH: 45:00 PRODUCER: SK Films, in association with Tangled proprietary radar technology, has found and PRODUCER: December Media Bank Studios/HHMI and the Pacific Science The Bumblebee Queen wt mapped these sites. And retrieved dazzling DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films Center, with major funding provided by the RELEASE DATE: 2017 “treasures.” CineNova is known for its popular and CONTACT: Bob Harman, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant innovative documentaries. Spectacular dive footage, [email protected] National Science Foundation Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, stunning CGI of the sunken cities brought to life and If the history of the earth were a 24-hour clock, then DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films Fulldome Digital evocative reenactments will recreate Cleopatra’s lost humans have only existed for just over a minute. CONTACT: Jonathan Barker, [email protected] LENGTH: 40:00 world. We will travel through time in Goddio’s 3D This is the story of the rest of it. And what a story it Against all odds, Henry Bates became one of PRODUCER: Principal Large Format mappings of vast scientific data sets and rediscover is. Earth’s history is nothing if not dramatic. It has the greatest naturalists and intrepid explorers DISTRIBUTOR: to be determined the deities, people and riches of ancient Egypt. A had to cope with at least 5 major extinction events. who ever lived. Traveling with his red-faced CONTACT: Phil Streather, [email protected] film for all. We have been producing with Goddio It has seen monumental change—the creation of an monkey, guitar, machete, blowpipe and As spring touches the magical world of a British for many years. http://www.cinenova.net atmosphere, the formation of water, the emergence collector’s gear, encountering river dolphins, country estate, a bumblebee queen emerges from of a magnetic field. All three of which led to the most giant otters, jaguars, and so much more, and a deep slumber. She has slept through the winter, Dream Big: Engineering Wonders monumental change of them all...life. Earth Story with the help of local tribes he befriended, he and now she must create a new colony to of the World wt takes us on a visual journey to see our world during spent 11 adventurous years in the Amazonian ensure the future of her species. In the process, RELEASE DATE: Fall 2016 its birth, its infancy and its adolescence. Earth Story rainforest, the most bio-diverse location on she will also benefit humanity—because almost FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant allows viewers to see our home’s glorious history Earth, and unraveled some of its most a third of the food we eat comes from plants Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70 using the power of 3D IMAX. Discover that our world spectacular mysteries. He risked his life for pollinated by bees. Our queen must overcome LENGTH: 40:00 was once stranger than science fiction and more science and discovered the amazing many threats, from a hedgehog raiding her nest, PRODUCER: MacGillivray Freeman Films visually spectacular than our wildest dreams. phenomenon of Mimicry whereby an animal to the crab spiders lying in ambush on the DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films takes on the look of another animal to gain an flowers she depends on for survival. Finally, as Distribution Company Ghosts of the Lusitania wt CONTACT: advantage in the competitive world of survival. her colony grows, her daughters rebel: she fights Bob Harman, [email protected] RELEASE DATE: March 2016 You too will be fooled! His discoveries provided for control, and eventually loses. And so, as Dream Big: Engineering Wonders of the World FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant the “beautiful proof” of natural selection. With winter falls, it is not our queen, but one of her will bring today’s greatest engineering marvels to Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, remarkable powers of observation, Bates will daughters, that creeps into a hole, and falls the giant screen. From record-reaching Fulldome Digital bring the audience mind-boggling examples of into a slumber. Ready for next spring, when an skyscrapers to bridges soaring above the clouds LENGTH: 40:00 mimicry and some of the 8,000 species new to age-old cycle will start anew. This is a real-life to giant tunnel-boring machines navigating PRODUCER: Rough Cut Pictures science the he collected. Nature is extraordinary fairy-tale. Enter the magical world . . . of beneath our cities, audiences will experience the DISTRIBUTOR: TBD and scientific puzzles make great detective The Bumblebee Queen. massive scale and the forces of nature that CONTACT: Sias Wilson, [email protected] stories, just waiting to be solved. challenge their designers. Audiences will discover A deep-sea underwater adventure that recounts Cleopatra’s Lost World wt how imagination and human invention—even the historical, political, and economic policies of Asteroid Impact ft RELEASE DATE: Fall 2016 failure—turn ideas, dreams, and human needs the early 20th century culminating in the tragic RELEASE DATE: 2016 FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70 DCI-compliant into reality. The first giant screen film to focus sinking of what was then the world’s second FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, specifically on STEM, Dream Big celebrates the largest passenger carrying ocean liner. LENGTH: 40:00 Fulldome Digital engineers who are pushing the limits of ingenuity PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation LENGTH: 40:00 and innovation in unexpected, amazing and Great Barrier Reef wt CONTACT: Gina Glenn, [email protected] PRODUCER: CineNova Productions forward-thinking ways. Together with extensive RELEASE DATE: 2016 Asteroid Impact will reveal the origins of DISTRIBUTOR: TBD outreach programs, the film will explore how we FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, asteroids and the effects of previous Earth CONTACT: Andre Picard, [email protected] use science and technology to build, invent, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70 impacts, delve into the threat these celestial Cleopatra is an icon. Mythic. We think we know her. design, and shape our world. A MacGillivray LENGTH: 45:00 masses pose to our planet today, and examine But do we? Ours is one of archaeology’s most Freeman film in partnership with the American PRODUCER: December Media how we monitor their trajectory in order to stay exciting adventures of discovery. We reveal the life Society of Civil Engineers. DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced out of their deadly path. Through a tour of the and times of the real Cleopatra. A series of ancient CONTACT: Stephen Amezdroz, [email protected]

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In 2016, put on your hat and pack the sunscreen. In the Footsteps of Giants, a 3D adventure film be a one-of-its-kind experience that explores home to shimmering shoals of fish and December Media invites you to come on down that follows dinosaur hunters from around the the unique science of our nearest celestial 16-foot-high statues from the sunken cities lie and see Australia’s greatest natural wonder, the globe: giving us insight into the world of neighbor, as well the history of its unmanned where they fell, 1200 years ago. This is a sea Great Barrier Reef. It’s the pride of a nation, a paleontology and how it connects us all. exploration, and the future of humankind’s where the cradle of civilisation runs parallel marine sanctuary that teems with life above presence there. with the natural world. In the depths off ancient and below the water. Learn how this amazing Life as a Mantis wt Athens, we discover something special—20 sanctuary has survived for thousands of years and RELEASE DATE: Fall 2015 Mysteries of the Mediterranean wt families of sperm whales; the most social of the will continue to do so far into the future. Passion FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant RELEASE DATE: 2018-2019 great whales. Come with us on a journey, into is a key to longevity and we want you to fall in Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant the Mysteries of the Mediterranean. love with Australia’s amazing Great Barrier Reef. Fulldome Digital Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, LENGTH: 20:00 Fulldome Digital Oceans: The Blue Planet wt Hawai’i Islands of Fire wt PRODUCER: Rough Cut Pictures Ltd. LENGTH: 40:00 RELEASE DATE: 2019 RELEASE DATE: June 2016 DISTRIBUTOR: to be confirmed PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Principal Large Format FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant CONTACT: Sias Wilson, [email protected] CONTACT: Phil Streather, [email protected] IMAX Digital Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, The lifecycle story of a single Spiny Flower Five million years ago the waters of the Atlantic LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 Fulldome Digital Mantis, following it from birth to death, through Ocean cascaded into a desert bowl between PRODUCER: BBC Earth LENGTH: 40:00 perils and joys, and along the way meeting the Europe and Africa, and the Mediterranean Sea DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth and Giant Screen Film PRODUCER: Ring of Fire Films interesting creatures it meets, some friendly, was born. Since that time the mighty empires of CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] DISTRIBUTOR: TBD some not so. Egypt, Greece, and Rome have come and gone Oceans: The Blue Planet is an extraordinary CONTACT: Michael Lienau, [email protected] on her shores, and dolphins, loggerhead turtles, journey of discovery and wonder, transporting Join a young Polynesian boy, traveling through LightSpeed Pioneers: and monk seals now live in her waters. It is a the audience to the deep, mysterious worlds time to encounter legendary figures of Hawaii. Stranded on Mars ft place where WW2 fighter planes have turned of our oceans. Packed with drama, awe, and Meet King Kamahameha as he unifies the RELEASE DATE: 2016 into reefs of soft coral, 3000-year-old urns are spectacle, we reveal untold stories of the Islands with the help of an explosive volcanic FORMATS: 2D, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, eruption; Royal Chieftess Kapiolani, who dares Fulldome Digital to defy the volcano goddess at the fiery crater’s LENGTH: 22:00 edge; and Volcanologist Thomas Jaggar, founder PRODUCER: No Final Frontier Productions, of the Hawai’i Volcano Observatory, whose Wonder Mill Cosmos cutting-edge science is today credited with DISTRIBUTOR: BIG & Digital, Evans & Sutherland saving thousands of lives around the world CONTACT: Lee Fanning, [email protected] Featuring dramatic storytelling through historical LightSpeed Pioneers: Stranded on Mars is an reenactments, spectacular scenery, and upcoming traditionally animated science unforgettable eruption footage—including the fiction/adventure film designed for both current eruption and lava flow now threatening fulldome planetarium screens and giant screen thousands on the Big Island—this epic film will institutional theaters. Set in a future golden age showcase the noble Hawaiian people who of commercial space exploration, the film struggle to preserve their ancient language, follows a group of teenage astronauts-to-be as endangered species and their very land. they match their wits and wills while training for voyages to other worlds. Simulated dangers In the Footsteps of Giants wt become all too real, however, after a crash RELEASE DATE: To be determined landing on Mars strands the group on the wrong FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital side of the planet, where they’ll have to think LENGTH: 40:00 fast—and use their science know how—to PRODUCER: Statement Pictures LLC survive the red planet’s ever-mounting dangers. DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined An action-packed educational adventure built CONTACT: Todd Miller, to provide dynamic, STEM-focused curriculum [email protected] for audiences between the ages 9 to 14, LightSpeed Pioneers: Stranded on Mars will

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ocean’s most astonishing creatures in innovative graphics techniques, having all-immersive 3D. The scientific community has contributed to several fulldome and giant made more discoveries within the last 10 years screen films. than the previous 100 years, expanding our frontiers of knowledge and revealing richer Untitled Toni Myers diversity than we could ever have imagined. Space Documentary wt From the freezing shores of the Arctic to the RELEASE DATE: 2016 balmy waters of the tropics, we share these FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital extraordinary new discoveries. Using LENGTH: TBD revolutionary underwater and on-board filming PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation Free yourself technology, we’ll dive into the giant void of the and Disney big blue, journey with a deep-sea current, and CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] witness scenes of wonder from the greatest Myers’ upcoming 3D film, which is still untitled, fishery on earth. In stunning 3D, Oceans: The will use IMAX’s extremely high-resolution with Christie Blue Planet takes the audience to magical photography and videography to offer worlds and delivers a connection to the ocean breathtaking, illuminating views of our home like never before. planet from space, exploring the astonishing changes that have occurred on Earth in just laser projection Star & Stone wt the past several decades. Made in cooperation RELEASE DATE: 2017 with the National Aeronautics and Space FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, Administration (NASA), the film will explore IMAX Digital, Fulldome Digital, VR mankind’s future on-and off-the planet, LENGTH: 40:00 increasing our understanding of the solar No content contracts. No revenue sharing. PRODUCER: xRez Studio system, while also traveling light-years to other DISTRIBUTOR: to be determined star systems to ponder the possibilities of Play the movies you want. CONTACT: Eric Hanson, [email protected] “Goldilocks,” an Earth-like planet. Star & Stone is a film that traces and reveals the practice of “Astro-archeology,” the Voyage of Time wt The Christie® 6P RGB laser projection system is the most intentional alignment of ancient architecture RELEASE DATE: 2016 to celestial cycles. Often associated with FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital advanced giant screen solution available. Give your audiences pseudo-science, the field alternatively reveals LENGTH: to be determined the best 3D cinematic experience possible. early man’s reliance on the heavens for PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation survival, illustrating surprising ingenuity and CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] With Christie, you have the freedom to show the movies sophistication. The film ranges from the earliest Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time is a evidence of calendrical structures, surveys celebration of the universe, displaying the you want with no content contracts and no revenue sharing. classic British megaliths, Mayan and Incan whole of time, from its start to its final observatories, and concludes with Chaco collapse. This film examines all that occurred Canyon and James Turrell’s Roden Crater to prepare the world that stands before us landscape art in the southwestern US. The now: science and space, birth and death, the film will utilize cutting-edge visual effects grand cosmos and the minute life systems of techniques such as immersive stereo 360 our planet. Malick is working first in the IMAX capture, laser scanning of structures and format for a 40-minute version with scientific terrains, and photogrammetry with the intent narration by Brad Pitt, followed by a 35mm to visualize complex interactions in a novel feature-length version with narration by and rich way. The film will be authored fully Cate Blanchett. spherically, in order to deliver in fulldome, giant screen, and VR platforms. Developer xRez Studio has an extensive background in For more information, visit christiedigital.com/giantscreenlaser

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Welcome to the Giant Screen choose content using a cross-divisional review Each portion of this session will have ample filmmaking toolbox and demonstrate how Wednesday, March 11 process, scientific review committees, audience time reserved for Q&A and interaction between production and postproduction differ from other 8:30 am–9:00 am poll, or something else? This session will feature panelists and symposium attendees. formats. Topics will include cameras; stereo 3D; Hilton Ballroom A a panel of exhibitor film buyers who will share SESSION LEADER: Kim Nickels shooting for the dome; editing; audio recording, their processes and criteria for deciding what mixing, and sound design; visual effects; Setting the stage of the Filmmaker Symposium: PANELISTS: Neal Allen, A-Frame Productions; goes up on the screen. production and postproduction workflow; Connecting the dots. What is the lens through Jonathan Barker, SK Films; Myles Connolly, cross-platform conversions and more. Tools of which this entire symposium is focused? SESSION MODERATOR: Diane Carlson, Pacific 360-Media; Michael Daut, Evans & Sutherland; the trade will be set up throughout the room, PRESENTERS: Christian Fry, Pretend Science Center Jini Durr, Day’s End Pictures; Greg Eliason; Paul with vendors and suppliers on hand to answer Entertainment; Lisa Truitt, THINK Creative PANELISTS: Zarth Bertsch, Smithsonian Fraser, Blaze Digital Cinema Works; Mark Katz, questions, demonstrate their wares, and give National Geographic Studios; Don Kempf, Giant Enterprises; Tim Hazlehurst, Marbles Kids attendees the opportunity to see the tools in Mining the Data: Using Industry Screen Films/D3D Cinema; Tina Ratterman, BIG Museum; Paul Wild, IMAX Victoria Inside the action. Research to Get Films Made and Royal B.C. Museum; Toby Winsett, Denver & Digital Distribution; Lisa Truitt, THINK Creative On Screens Museum of Nature and Science; Andy 8:00 am–11:15 am Wednesday, March 11 Zakrajsek, COSI Storytelling: The Art of the AMC IMAX Theater 9:00 am–9:45 am Giant Screen n Bring Back Our Wide Shots (BBOWS): Post Hilton Ballroom A The Business of the Giant Screen Wednesday, March 11 Treatment Filmout, Digital GSCA recently completed two in-depth studies Wednesday, March 11 4:00pm–5:30 pm n Digital Capture Experiments for the Giant to capture crucial industry data. The Theater Part 1: 11:15 am–12:30 pm AMC IMAX Theater Screen Programming Survey asked theater film buyers Part 2: 2:00 pm–3:30 pm Why make a film for the giant screen? What n Audio: Recording, Mixing, Sound Design to provide input on usage and attitudes Hilton Ballroom A makes this format so special? How do giant 11:40 am–1:00 pm regarding various types of content they’ve So, what is all this business about the giant screen filmmakers use writing, directing, and Hilton Ballroom A programmed in the recent past and plan to screen industry anyway? Find out in this editing to tell a compelling story? During this n Production and Postproduction Workflow program in the near future. The GSCA Audience jam-packed session. We will focus on the in-theater session, award-winning giant screen (P3W) Overview Research Study gathered data from more than business aspects of what goes into making a filmmakers will show clips from their films and n Time-Lapse, Cameras, P3W Considerations 5,000 theater-goers from 36 venues in 12 giant screen film and what makes the giant share the creative decisions that went into n Cameras for the Giant Screen countries to gain information on them and gauge screen industry unique compared to the producing educational, entertaining, immersive, n Christie Presentation their thoughts on the giant screen industry, theater theatrical film and television industries. visually stunning theater experiences. experience, film content and more. Topline results 3:00 pm–6:30 pm Paul Fraser will begin by walking us through SESSION MODERATOR: Daniel Ferguson, Hilton Ballroom A from both studies will be presented at this Cosmic Picture session to provide filmmakers with invaluable the economic model for a new giant screen n Stereo 3D PRESENTERS AND FILMS: Bob Talbot and Andrew n information about what audiences and theater documentary, tracking the flow of money through The Post Environment (Mistika Presentation) Oran (FotoKem) will present scenes from Ocean n directors are looking for in giant screen films. each sector, from production to distribution to Underwater 3D exhibition. Next, Paul will be joined by industry Men; Myles Connolly (360-Media), and n Visual Effects for the Giant Screen PRESENTER: Paul Fraser, veterans Jonathan Barker, Don Kempf, and Lisa Jonathan Baker and Wendy MacKeigan (SK n Final Q&A Blaze Digital Cinema Works Films) will present scenes from Flight of the Truitt to discuss ways to finance films, as well as SESSION MODERATOR: Martin Howe, TEQ4 ways to overcome challenges with the economic Butterflies; other films/presenters TBA. Mysteries of Programming model. Then you’ll hear from several traditional PRESENTERS: Pawel Achtel, Achtel Pty. Ltd.; Revealed funders of giant screen films, such as the U.S. Giant Screen Filmmaking: Tim Archer, Masters Digital; Peter Chang, Wednesday, March 11 National Science Foundation and IMAX Behind the Scenes Golden Gate 3D; Myles Connolly, 360-Media; 9:45 am–11:00 am Corporation. Thursday, March 12 John Daro, FotoKem; Greg Downing, xRez Hilton Ballroom A 8:00 am–6:30 pm Studio; Brian Eimer, ImagesInSound; Christian There are almost as many different film Following a break, Neal Allen, Jini Durr, Greg Eliason, and Myles Connolly will take us through What is unique about producing for the giant Fry, Pretend Entertainment; Gord Harris, programming models as there are giant screen screen? What tools are used to make a giant Christie; Sean MacLeod Phillips, Director/ theaters. How many film titles are on the two different examples of giant screen film budgets. And to wrap things up, several screen film? This full day takes you behind the Cinematographer; James Neihouse, theater’s schedule each day? Does the theater scenes and provides in-depth presentations and book Hollywood content in addition to established distributors, including Mark Katz and Cinematographer; Andrew Oran, FotoKem; Tina Ratterman, will talk about marketing and hands-on, eyes-on and ears-on sessions Tim Sassoon, Sassoon Film Design; Rik Tester, documentaries? How much of the schedule is presented by expert giant screen filmmakers. distribution. ONSIGHT devoted to alternative content? Does the theater This session will dig into the giant screen

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Pawel Achtel Neal has worked extensively in support of was President/Co-CEO of Toronto’s Shaftesbury film projects and consulting on theater Director/Producer, specialty photography with high speed, infrared, Films, where he was jointly responsible for the operations and marketing. Her travels have Achtel Pty. Ltd. large format film 3D, aerial and underwater company’s phenomenal growth from a small included visiting over 100 IMAX® theaters on SESSION: Giant Screen photography. feature film company into one of Canada’s four continents. GSCA committee participation Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes leading production companies. Amongst other includes membership, marketing, and For the past 20 years Pawel Tim Archer roles, Jonathan is a former CEO of the Ontario professional development. Her contributions to Achtel been making natural history films, mostly Creative Director / Sound Media Development Corporation. He began his the annual conference programming include underwater, and has filmed in locations from Designer, Masters Digital film and television industry career as an initiating and coordinating the Giant Screen the equator to Antarctica. He’s also worked as a SESSION: Giant Screen entertainment lawyer and member of the bars 101 Workshop and Great Marketing Ideas. She DOP on features and live performances, Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes of Ontario and California. He has served on is serving her second elected term on the GSCA predominantly using cine-style camera setups. As Creative Director of Masters numerous Boards and is a founding Director of board. The launch of the Boeing IMAX® theater In 1999 Pawel produced and directed his first Digital, Tim is involved with all aspects of the the Giant Screen Cinema Association and a that she led garnered a GSTA MAC theater film, Aliens of the Sea. This film received the audio process, acting as Multi-Channel Location Director of Film Ontario. launch award in 1999. She was honored in best documentary award at the New York Recordist, Sound Designer, and Re-Recording 2012 with an IMAX Founders Award and in International Film Festival (1999); Aliens of the Mixer. For almost 30 years Tim has specialized Zarth Bertsch 2013 with a GSCA Big Shoe award. Sea was awarded the First Prize, Gold Camera in audio design for IMAX/Giant Screen Films, Director of Theaters, She attended the University of California at Award at the US International Film Festival and Documentary Films, Features, Television, and Smithsonian Enterprises Berkeley earning a Bachelors of Science degree two Awards for outstanding Cinematography at Themed Attractions. Tim has received SESSION: Mysteries of in zoology and a Masters of Public Health. the International Wildlife Film Festival, Montana international recognition for his expertise in the Programming Revealed (2000). In 2013 and 2014 Pawel received sound design field, including MPSE “Golden Zarth Bertsch is Director of Peter Chang silver and gold cinematography awards from the Reel” Awards for Giant Screen film projects Theaters for Smithsonian Enterprises, the Director, Producer, Australian Cinematographers Society. Pawel is such as Santa vs. the Snowman 3D (O revenue-generating division of the Smithsonian Cinematographer, an inventor and maker of the world’s first 2D Entertainment), The Human Body (BBC Large Institution. He is responsible for all business Golden Gate 3D and 3D housings able to record undistorted Format) and Pirates (SimEx! Iwerks). He also and operational components of the three SESSION: Giant Screen Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes ultra-high definition underwater motion pictures, shared the GSCA Sound Design Award for the Smithsonian IMAX Theaters, Einstein for which he won the prestigious Innovation location audio on Tornado Alley (Graphic Films). Planetarium, and Simulator/4D Experiences. Peter H. Chang is an award-winning director, Award at 2013 NAB Show. Other notable Giant Screen credits include, Zarth is currently driving multiple capital producer, and cinematographer based in San Bugs! 3D, Michael Jordan to the Max, Ride projects to reinvest and enhance Smithsonian Francisco, California. A pioneer in the use of 7K Neal Allen Around the World, India Kingdom of the Tiger, Theaters. Most recently, this included an 3D motion-control time-lapse capture systems, Producer, A-Frame Productions and Africa the Serengeti. Tim is also Co- extensive renovation of the Einstein Planetarium his work for the giant screen includes SESSION: The Business of the Producer and Sound Designer for the upcoming at the National Air & Space Museum which Jerusalem, winner of the Giant Screen Cinema Giant Screen Giant Screen production Just Listen (w/t), an included an industry-leading 8K full dome Association Award for Best Cinematography and Neal Allen has 25 years of interactive theatre show about the science of digital upgrade. Upcoming projects include the Best Film, Panama: A Land Divided, a World experience covering nearly every sound and soundscape ecology. conversion to IMAX Laser Digital of the three United 3D, and the upcoming America Wild: aspect of media production. Ranging from Smithsonian IMAX Theaters. Previously, Zarth U.S. National Parks. His film Deus Ex Homine music videos, commercials and theatrical films Jonathan Barker was Director of Theaters for the Museum of was awarded Nvidia’s Best 3D Video and is to institutional industrial, documentary and CEO, SK Films Science and Industry in Tampa, Florida, and featured on NBC Universal’s Best of 3D blu-ray. large format 3D, Neal has worked through SESSION: The Business of the before that, the Science Station in Cedar His work is featured in the landmark HBO nearly every aspect of bringing a project from Giant Screen Rapids, Iowa. documentary series The Weight of the Nation concept to reality. His primary professional Jonathan founded SK Films and the music video for Coldplay’s “Midnight” focus is on preparation of creative packages with Bob Kerr, co-founder of Diane Carlson which launched their Ghost Stories album and through breakdown, scheduling and budgeting, IMAX, where Jonathan was previously ran the Vice President of Guest tour. Peter produced, directed, and shot the film and then the execution of live-action filming. worldwide film business and as such was Services and Theaters, San Francisco Flow for Samsung and the Neal specializes in remote projects with responsible for the production and distribution Pacific Science Center television series Lightscapes for Discovery. SESSION: Mysteries of complex logistical requirements, ranging from of a wide range of films. Multiple award-winning Programming Revealed Cambodia, India, and Saudi Arabia, to giant screen titles in his filmography include Indonesia, Palestine, and Tonga. Additionally, acclaimed hits Flight of the Butterflies, Bugs! Diane Carlson has been actively involved in and Into the Deep. For over a decade, Jonathan many aspects of the field, including advising on

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Myles Connolly as the Director of Show Production/Marketing Jini Durr the Motion Picture Sound Editors in Los Angeles Producer, 360-Media at Evans & Sutherland, developing a library of Producer, Day’s End Pictures for The Human Body, Pirates, and Santa vs. The SESSIONS: The Business of the shows for the digital fulldome community. He SESSION: The Business of the Snowman 3D. Also recently he received two Giant Screen, Storytelling: The created the world’s first digital fulldome film for Giant Screen Golden Reel nominations for Great White Shark Art of the Giant Screen, and SIGGRAPH ’99 in Los Angeles. He also helped Jini is an award-winning 3D and Titans of the Ice Age. He’s most recently Giant Screen Filmmaking: create the world’s first digital fulldome transfer producer with over 20 years completed the sound design for National Behind the Scenes of a giant screen film, Africa the Serengeti in experience in the giant screen Geographic’s Robots 3D and K2 After studying film at the University of California 2007. As a result of this groundbreaking first and special venue production. Her passion is Communications’ Journey to Space. Santa Barbara, Myles spent time working on step, there are now over 35 films that have bringing state-of-the-art technology to features in Hollywood before making the leap been converted to fulldome. Michael is a storytelling. Her credits include Producer on Greg Eliason to the world of documentary filmmaking in the member of the Producer’s Guild of America, a several groundbreaking films for National Line Producer early 90s. He has filmed in more than 40 founding member of the Association of Geographic Studios, including Mysteries of the SESSION: The Business of the countries during his 25-year career and filled a Fulldome Innovators, a member of the Telly Unseen World, Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Giant Screen number of production and postproduction roles Awards’ Silver Council, a member of ASIFA- Adventure, and Wildest Weather in the Solar Greg Eliason has 20 years experience as a along the way, including producer, writer, Hollywood International Animated Film Society, System for the fulldome. She was Supervising producer, line producer, and production picture editor, and VFX supervisor. He has and a board member of IMERSA.org, the Producer on Tom Hanks’ Magnificent manager in the field of large-format production worked extensively in the large format genre on Immersive Media Entertainment, Research, Desolation: Walking on the Moon, for IMAX® and has worked with crews ranging from 5 to more than 20 70mm films, including the Science and Arts organization dedicated to Corporation. She also produced Roar: Lions of 150 in 18 different countries all across the high-profile projects Everest, The Living Sea, raising the visibility of immersive media across the Kalahari for National Geographic and United States. His credits as line producer Samsara, and most recently, the award-winning a variety of disciplines throughout the world. co-produced Siegfried and Roy: The Magic Box include Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs, Flight of the Butterflies. With more than 10 and was VFX Producer on IMAX®’s T-Rex: Back Ride Around the World, and Forces of Nature. years of experience in the developing 3D Greg Downing to the Cretaceous. Jini is currently completing He was the production manager on Alaska: formats, Myles is considered an expert in this President, xRez Studio Robots 3D for National Geographic Studios. Spirit of the Wild and Amazing Journeys, and very demanding field. Working alongside some SESSION: Giant Screen She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric from the natural history producer for The Tree of Life. of the best talent in the film business, his Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes the University of California, Berkeley, and is a He is currently in production on a large-format efforts have helped garner numerous awards, Greg Downing specializes in member of the Director’s Guild of America. She project that is shooting in Japan, The Bahamas, including the Cine Golden Eagle, the Grand Prix image-based 3D technologies resides in Culver City, California, with her Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia, Dubai, India, du Festival at the Theater du La Geode in Paris, and computational photography techniques husband and daughter. Socotra, China, Sweden, as well as here in the the “Best 3D/Immersive” award at the Jackson for immersive environments. He has worked U.S. He also served as the line producer on the Hole Wildlife Film Festival, and two Academy developed and executed Photographic/CGI Brian Eimer forthcoming Terrence Malick release, Voyage of Award nominations in the Short Documentary workflows for a number of Giant Screen, Senior Sound Designer/ Time. And, though he lived and worked here in category. Fulldome, VR, and feature film productions President, ImagesInSound Los Angeles for 15 years, Greg remains a while President at xRez Studio. His work can SESSION: Giant Screen steadfast San Francisco fan. Michael Daut be seen in museums such as Ars Electronica, Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes Go Giants. Director of Show Production/ the American Natural History Museum, and Brian Eimer has been an Marketing, Evans & Sutherland the Computer History Museum. His IMAX and award-winning sound designer, Daniel Ferguson Digital Theater Fulldome work has won or been nominated re-recording mixer, and sound supervisor for Writer/Producer/Director, SESSION: The Business of the for awards at Jackson Hole Film Festival, with over 20 years, and is very passionate about Cosmic Picture, LLC Giant Screen the VES society, and the 4K film festival. He creating the immersive soundtracks for large SESSION: Storytelling: The Art of Michael has a passion for has worked on notable visual effects films format films. He prides himself on treating each the Giant Screen immersive media and is an award-winning such as I Am Legend, Spiderman 3, and project with the uniqueness that the story and Daniel Ferguson entered the writer, producer, and director for fulldome Narnia. Recent work includes an immersive format deserves. His creativity and dedication giant screen industry in 1998 videos, theatrical productions, music videos, installation for Björk and a VR/fulldome film to each project have won him recognition from as a producer and distributor for Primesco live concert videos, commercials, with Ai Weiwei. his peers in the form of two Best Sound design Communications. He was Line Producer on Lost documentaries, corporate videos, and trade Awards from the Giant Screen Cinema Worlds: Life in the Balance, and distributed show presentations. Since 1999 he has served Association for the films Wild Ocean 3D and Wolves, Wildfire: Feel the Heat, Bears and India: The Last Reef, and 3 Golden Reel awards from Kingdom of the Tiger. After leaving Primesco in

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2002, he worked as Co-Writer and Associate Christian Fry then R&D, he led the first digital team for film Martin Howe Director of Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de Producer/Director, recording, scanning and DMR and did the first CEO, TEQ4 France, Line Producer and Script Editor of Pretend Entertainment WAVES electronic projection system. He worked SESSION: Giant Screen Journey to Mecca and Creative Consultant for SESSION: Giant Screen on many films, from space to Everest and Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes MacGillivray Freeman Films on Everest: Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes Titanica, and helped develop new R&D Martin is based in Brighton in Conquering Thin Air. He wrote and directed the Christian co-wrote, produced, technologies such as IMAX Solido 3D LC the UK and has over 30 years’ recent release Jerusalem 3D. From 2010-2014 and directed the giant screen glasses & projection system for Expo 90, the experience in technology, he has served on the board of the GSCA and film Air Racers 3D, a co-production between his SANDDE stereo animation system, and 3D entertainment, and education markets. He is a he is co-chair of the Professional Development company, Pretend Entertainment, and 3D cameras, receiving many patents. The IMAX creative “techie” with a passion for creating Committee. He is also an active member of the Entertainment. It was widely released in giant Solido 3D camera/projector/dome/glasses realistic and engaging immersive experiences. Conference Committee and the Awards screen theaters around the world in 2012. system was given the Century Achievement His specialization is in ultra-high resolution sub-committee. He graduated McGill University Christian’s first and lifelong passion is for the award for historical achievement in applications and interactive learning in 1996 with a degree in Theology and has a ocean and her animals. During the late 90’s, Stereoscopic 3D from the International 3D environments. He is an ideas generator and a diploma from the Vancouver Film School. Christian joined The Whaleman Foundation in Society in October 2010. big-picture thinker with the ability to translate filming, editing, and producing environmental those into a structured plan and hands-on Paul Fraser documentary films highlighting issues facing Tim Hazlehurst delivery. He is currently co-chair of the GSCA Founder/President, Blaze Digital marine mammals and their habitats. In 2003 Vice President of Operations, Technical Committee and is on the GSCA board Cinema Works Christian produced the Whaleman Foundation’s Marbles Kids Museum and the of directors. He also is the chair of the DIGSS SESSIONS: Mining the Data: Using filmDeadly Sounds in the Silent World, which Wells Fargo IMAX Theatre at (Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications) Industry Research to Get Films Marbles won best short at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Task Force. Martin’s deep passion for “the Made and On Screens, The SESSION: Mysteries of Festival. Christian is an instrument-rated private experience of immersion” is tempered by a Business of the Giant Screen Programming Revealed pilot and currently serves as the Vice President pragmatic approach and a thorough Blaze Digital Cinema Works LLC is a consulting of the Santa Monica Airport Association With over 14 years of experience in the giant understanding of the commercial realities. His and project management firm specializing in assisting in their efforts to save the airport. screen industry, Tim Hazlehurst is currently the ironic sense of humour helps balance his business development and planning for digital He is also actively involved within the GSCA, Vice President of Operations for Marbles Kids impatience to get things done. cinema, in all the forms it can take—flat screen serving on three committees and chairing a Museum and the Wells Fargo IMAX Theatre at and dome, 2D/3D/4D—for museum and task force on production and post-production Marbles in Raleigh, North Carolina. Marbles Mark Katz commercial sectors, and all functions— workflow. ranks as one of the top 10 field trip destinations President, Distribution, exhibition, production and distribution. One of in North Carolina with over 650,000 visitors a National Geographic Studios Blaze Digital’s specialties is guiding museum- Gord Harris year to both the IMAX theatre and museum. SESSION: The Business of the theater clients, as an owner’s rep, through R&D Program Manager, Drawing on his background in information Giant Screen business planning for, and ultimately the Visualization-Simulation, Christie technology and facilities management, A successful industry veteran for acquisition of, a new digital projection system. SESSION: Giant Screen Hazlehurst manages his institution’s IMAX 28 years, Mark Katz has been Blaze also helps develop films through planning Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes Theatre and oversees finance, technology, and president of distribution, National Geographic and executive production services and handles Gord works as a physicist on facility operations. Hazlehurst planned and Studios since 2006, representing a library of content licensing assignments. Paul has held Christie’s R&D team on simulation and executed his theater’s recent conversion from acclaimed specialty, art & independent films. newly created positions and C-level roles, visualization displays, developing technologies 15/70 film to digital, placing his theater at the They include the award-winning 3D films whose mandates were to develop a new for multi-channel projection systems and forefront of the industry’s move to digital Jerusalem, U2 3D and Sea Monsters, as well as business. Between 1986 and 2000, Paul led immersive displays. Previously he worked in projection. Prior to entering the non-profit world, box-office hits Forces of Nature, Lewis & Clark, giant screen theater and film divisions at IMAX freelance R&D for Go-R&D Consulting. He spent Hazlehurst worked for several corporations in Mysteries of Egypt, Shackleton’s Antarctic Corporation and Ogden Entertainment. Paul 24 years at IMAX as an engineering generalist the information technology field and in data Adventure and The Human Body, as well as the acquired a strategic marketing acumen from his in the science of mechanical, optical and center management. Originally from England highly acclaimed feature films Restrepo, early-career work in brand management at electronic display systems. Harris joined IMAX and having grown up in the United States, Amreeka and The Last Lions. Prior to National Procter & Gamble. He has a Bachelor of Corporation in 1977 after receiving degrees in Hazlehurst has a Bachelor of Arts in Math from Geographic, Katz was president of distribution Commerce degree from Queen’s University in Physics & Film Production to found the Camera the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, for nWave Pictures. Previously he was VP of Canada. See www.blazedigitalcinema.com. department, which designed and built over 20 Virginia. He currently lives in Cary, North Carolina, sales for Sony Pictures Classics, where he led camera systems, from high-speed to undersea with his wife, four children, and five cats. the successful distribution of the original 3D and space. Later as Manager of Engineering,

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digital services for 65mm and mixed format Recently he photographed Robots 3D and films Wings of Courage and Across the Sea of Programming included traditional giant screen film projects. Recent IMAX format directed the high-speed, time-lapse, Time. He also worked for IMAX Corporation, documentaries, current and repertory documentaries include Journey to Space, microscopic, infrared and VFX sequences for where he released the groundbreaking film Hollywood content, cable TV/sporting events, Secret Ocean, Robots, Airplanes, D-Day and Mysteries of the Unseen World. Rolling Stones at the Max and the Academy concerts, local filmmaker events, kids’ many others. Recent feature films include Award-nominated film Fires of Kuwait. programming, and corporate presentations. Interstellar, The Master, Mission Impossible: Tina Ratterman Over the past couple years she has informally Ghost Protocol, as well as 4K restorations of Founder, BIG & Digital Don Kempf consulted with numerous theaters during their classic 65mm features such as My Fair Lady, Distribution President and Founder, digital investigation and conversion process. Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music. Prior to SESSION: The Business of the Giant Screen Films/D3D Cinema Kim is a member of GSCA’s Professional joining FotoKem, Andrew provided European- Giant Screen SESSION: The Business of the Development Committee and Research Task based large format film post-production Giant Screen Force, and is Co-Chair of the Alternative Tina Ratterman is founder of supervision from 2000-2004. IMAX format film BIG & Digital Distribution. Ratterman started Don founded Giant Screen Content Special Interest Group. credits included The Human Body, Ocean Men, BIG & Digital after working at the Kentucky Films together with his brother and India: Kingdom of the Tiger. Andrew’s large Science Center for seven years as Director of Steve with a mission to bring enriching and James Neihouse format film experience dates back to 1994, Marketing and PR where she programmed and impactful theatrical experiences to audiences Cinematographer when as Head of Production for Imagica USA marketed films for the IMAX Theater; and, after worldwide. As a former history teacher, Don’s SESSION: Giant Screen he supervised optical effects and format working at Giant Screen Films for six years as decision to devote his career to educational Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes conversions on over 100 large format films and Director of Distribution and Marketing. She documentary film production was a natural James Neihouse is a freelance special venue attractions. During this time he started BIG & Digital in 2009 to deliver unique one. In 2009, he founded D3D Cinema, a cinematographer who has been played a key role in the development of 65mm films that inspire and leave a positive impact sister company of GSF dedicated to digital 3D involved with the giant screen film business digital film services. on audiences. BIG & Digital now has a library theater integration and film production. Don since 1976. His credits include some of the of films that includes 15/70mm, Digital 4K received a BA in history from Dartmouth most successful films in the format, including Sean Phillips and 2K and Fulldome movies for the College and an MBA in marketing and The Dream Is Alive, Space Station 3D, and Director/Cinematographer, traditional museum audience and alternative entrepreneurship from the University of Hubble 3D. In 1980 he was cinematographer MacLeod Enterprises content for families and pre-school age Chicago. He lives in the Chicago area with for The Eruption of Mount St. Helens, the first SESSION: Giant Screen audiences. Ratterman is a member of the his wife, Kathy, and three boys, Jack, Tommy, giant screen film to be nominated for an Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA) and and Hank. Academy Award. Neihouse’s work has taken Director/Cinematographer Sean has won recognition for her work. She is a him from the Arctic Circle to the jungles of Phillips has created memorable native of Louisville, Kentucky, and earned a Kim Nickels India, from South Pacific coral reefs to images in every motion picture format and Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the CPA Sub-Saharan Africa, and from the decks of The three of the top ten grossing IMAX films of all University of Louisville. SESSION: The Business of the America’s Cup yachts to the cockpit of the time. A recipient of the Kodak Vision Award for Giant Screen Space Shuttle. In his work with NASA, he has Cinematography and two Achievement awards Tim Sassoon trained more than 20 shuttle crews on the Kim is an accounting and from the Visual Effects Society, he’s also been President, Sassoon Film Design intricacies of large format filmmaking. In 2014 finance professional with 20+ responsible for creating innovative 3D camera SESSION: Giant Screen he was invited to become a member of the years of experience. She is currently doing systems from scratch, including MSM Design’s Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes freelance accounting and finance work, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Gemini camera and Gen2 mirror rigs that allow Tim Sassoon is President of including production accounting for Sean cinematography branch. filmmakers complete 3D control. He shot Tom Sassoon Film Design (SFD), a Casey and National Geographic’s current Hank’s Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the visual effects and post-production facility in project Extreme Weather (working title). From Andrew Oran Moon and Bugs!, which won the GSCA Award Santa Monica, California, with long experience 2008 through 2014, Kim was the VP of VP Sales & Operations Large for Best Cinematography. Sean directed Sea in large format, stereo, and feature films. With Finance and Operations for the Putnam Format, FotoKem Monsters, an award winning 3D Giant Screen a degree in both Cinematography and Museum in Davenport, Iowa. She was a SESSION: Giant Screen film for National Geographic that has grossed MotionGraphics from California Institute of the decision-making member of the museum’s Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes over $50,000,000 worldwide. He was the Arts (CalArts), Tim was also trained in stage digital theater conversion task force and was Andrew Oran serves as VP Sales stereographer on Peter Jackson’s King Kong motion control/downshooter and optical responsible for programming of the giant & Operations for FotoKem’s 360 3D attraction for Universal Studios. printing. He opened SFD in 1997, and key screen theater, including content selection, Large Format Group. Established in April 2004, contracting, ticket pricing and scheduling. the unit provides comprehensive lab, video and

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3D ($48M US) and the newly released Toby Winsett is the IMAX Operations Manager personnel have won several VES Awards, more Home, Flight of the Butterflies 3D and Tiny Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D. She is now and Chief Projectionist at the 409-seat than any other facility of its size. Tim’s Giants 3D. He is an active member of the founder and president of THINK Creative, a Lawrence C. Phipps IMAX Theater, Denver experience includes the graphics and technical committee and the “P3W” company focused on creating high-end film, Museum of Nature & Science, which opened compositing for U2 3D, Visual Effects (VFX), (Production and Postproduction) best practice television and location-based entertainment on July 1, 1984, and was renovated to IMAX title design, and 3D conversion for task force. Having joined ONSIGHT in 2001, he projects that generate profit while driving Digital in 2010. He has been with the SeaMonsters, Grand Canyon Adventure, and is now in-house Post Production Supervisor engagement. Museum since 1984 and was hired to his To the Arctic. He has also produced VFX for and Partner. ONSIGHT is a pioneering current position in 1999 with the instructions numerous feature films, televisionshows, and UK-based facilities company for film and Paul Wild to “make the theater your own.” He has won special edition VFX for Sony Blu-Ray disc television and a leader in Giant Screen Theatre Director, IMAX Victoria the Maximum Image Award for Best IMAX releases. SFD also completed full-length IMAX services. They supply the latest cameras Inside the Royal BC Museum Booth three times, twice as a film theater and 2D to 3D stereoscopicconversions for Lions 3D and equipment as well as high-end Post SESSION: Mysteries of once as a digital theater. He is on the Film for National Geographic and Mummies: Production services for 2K, 4K and Programming Revealed Selection Committee which includes members Secrets of the Pharaohs 3D, and has provided 3D. ONSIGHT has become the go-to company from Marketing, Educators, Museum Programs, significant contributions to feature films such for giant screen and 3D services in the UK. October 2014 marked the Adult and Children’s Programs, and various as G-Force, Alice in Wonderland, The Green Rik is responsible for the latest creative and 11th anniversary for Paul in other departments. Hornet, Smurfs, and both parts of Harry Potter technical solutions, best practice and the giant screen industry. During this time and with credit towards a commitment to film and the Deathly Hallows. quality output. He works closely with Andy Zakrajsek production teams and across ONSIGHT’s marketing and a great team of staff and management, IMAX Victoria has continually VP of Operations and Phil Streather complete services in Post and Cameras. With Experiences, COSI CEO, Principal Large Format extensive involvement in R&D and deliveries been a top performer in the industry. In addition, Paul has implemented and SESSION: Mysteries of SESSION: Giant Screen from HD to Giant Screen, he has added to Programming Revealed Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes ONSIGHT’s reputation for innovative workflows, maintained the most successful annual pass program in the IMAX world, with around Andy is currently serving Phil founded and is CEO of techniques and results. 19,000 to 20,000 members annually. In as Vice President of Principal Large Format, a 2008 his projection booth team was awarded Operations and Experiences at COSI in production company dedicated to developing Lisa Truitt the Best Booth Award courtesy of IMAX Columbus, Ohio. His responsibilities include and producing 3D Giant Screen (IMAX) CEO, THINK Creative Corporation. While essentially operating as an administration, management, and oversight features, 3D Theatrical Documentary features, SESSION: The Business of the independent commercial theater, Paul has for theaters, exhibits, operations, revenue and 3DTV. Phil was the producer of award- Giant Screen also had the benefit and experience of generation, contract services, facilities, and IT. winning Bugs! 3D, was co-producer and Stereo Lisa Truitt’s career has operating within the environment of a The COSI team, under Andy’s guidance, Supervisor on Meerkats 3D and was the Stereo spanned the worlds of mission-based institution—the Royal BC recently opened a 60-foot immersive digital Supervisor on Tiny Giants 3D. Other 3D credits television, feature films, giant Museum. His 20+ years of professional hotel dome experience (planetarium) to go along include The London Eye 4D Experience, screen/specialty cinema, financing, film management experience within the tourism with their National Geographic Giant Screen Carmen in 3D, and Madam Butterfly 3D. Phil distribution and education. She specializes in and hospitality field complements his Theater and other digital assets. Prior related also devised and ran Advanced 3D: The creating and synthesizing high-end media approach to the giant screen industry. Over experience includes 10 years as Director of National Stereoscopic Training Programme in programs with integrated cross platform the years he has contributed to the GSCA Guest Operations at Chicago’s Museum the UK in 2010/2011, funded by Skillset and elements, designed to inspire, illuminate and through a long-standing involvement on the of Science and Industry, and 20+ years in Sky 3D. generate tangible, measurable impact. Over a Professional Development Committee and is the hospitality industry. Andy has been decades-long career at National Geographic, a GSCA board member. involved with the Giant Screen theater Rik Tester she created the Cinema Ventures business to industry since 2000 as a member of GSCA Postproduction Supervisor finance, produce, market and distribute Toby Winsett and is currently co-chair of GSCA’s and Partner, ONSIGHT high-end entertainment properties with a IMAX Operations Manager and Professional Development committee. SESSION: Giant Screen concentration on giant screen films. Her Chief Projectionist Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes producing credits include some of the most Denver Museum of Nature and Rik has been involved with successful giant screen films in history, Science Giant Screen filmmaking since including the box office hits Mysteries of SESSION: Mysteries of 2011, contributing to many acclaimed films, Egypt (gross box office of $107 M US), Lewis Programming Revealed including Flying Monsters, Pandas: The Journey & Clark: Great Journey West, Sea Monsters

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