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Amazon Adventure 3D Press Kit Amazon Adventure 3D Press Kit SK Films: Facebook/Instagram/Youtube: Amber Hawtin @AmazonAdventureFilm Director, Sales & Marketing Twitter: @SKFilms Phone: 416.367.0440 ext. 3033 Cell: 416.930.5524 Email: [email protected] Website: www.amazonadventurefilm.com 1 National Press Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D BRINGS AN EPIC AND INSPIRATIONAL STORY SET IN THE HEART OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST TO IMAX® SCREENS WITH ITS WORLD PREMIERE AT THE SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ON APRIL 18th. April 2017 -- SK Films, an award-winning producer and distributor of natural history entertainment, and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, the acclaimed film production unit of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, announced today the IMAX/Giant Screen film AMAZON ADVENTURE will launch on April 18, 2017 at the World Premiere event at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The film traces the extraordinary journey of naturalist and explorer Henry Walter Bates - the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of – who provided “the beautiful proof” to Charles Darwin for his then controversial theory of natural selection, the scientific explanation for the development of life on Earth. As a young man, Bates risked his life for science during his 11-year expedition into the Amazon rainforest. AMAZON ADVENTURE is a compelling detective story of peril, perseverance and, ultimately, success, drawing audiences into the fascinating world of animal mimicry, the astonishing phenomenon where one animal adopts the look of another, gaining an advantage to survive. "The Giant Screen is the ideal format to take audiences to places that they might not normally go and to see amazing creatures they might not normally see,” said Executive Producer Jonathan Barker, CEO of SK Films. “From a humble background, with an unstoppable passion for science and life, Bates played guitar, had a pet monkey, relied on Amazonian natives to survive and learned many of their languages, and made crucial contributions to our understanding of the natural world. He should be more widely known and we’re thrilled to introduce his remarkable story to the public.” “Walking in the footsteps of Henry Walter Bates, audiences get to follow the clues and see one of the most important discoveries about life unfold before them scene by scene,” says Executive Producer Sean B. Carroll, of HHMI Tangled Bank Studios. “Through Bates’ eyes, we see some of the first and best evidence of how and why species evolve. We hope this film, in tracing his adventures in the Amazon, shows where curiosity and perseverance can lead and inspires younger and older viewers alike.” Filmed on location in the lush Amazon region, AMAZON ADVENTURE uses the immersive IMAX format to plunge audiences into a wild world of breathtaking beauty and captivating animal behavior. Things are not always as they seem in the jungle and audiences will be mesmerized by an array of nature’s masters of mimicry. From the makers of the immensely popular and multiple, award-winning film Flight of the Butterflies 3D, the film is directed by Mike Slee and is executive produced by Jonathan Barker and Sean B. Carroll, starring Calum Finlay as Henry Bates, written by Wendy MacKeigan and Carl Knutson and shot by cinematographers Gerry Vasbenter and Richard Kirby, with an original score by Brazilian composer SK Films 2 April 2017 Antonio Pinto. Although filming in the Amazon was very challenging, the team constantly reminded themselves of what it must have been like for Bates, without any of the transportation and communication technologies available today. Painstakingly researched for three years, AMAZON ADVENTURE enlisted the expertise of more than 100 scientists and historical advisors. The team’s commitment to authenticity not only resulted in this rigorous re-creation, even using actual instruments and tools from the 1850s, but the writing team also incorporated many of Bates’ own words, as he was a gifted storyteller. The film, a co-production between Canada, the UK and Brazil, was granted unprecedented access by the Natural History Museum of London to film Bates’ own scientific field notebooks and botanical drawings, and to film the butterflies he personally collected over 160 years ago – butterflies that had never left the museum, and had to go into quarantine for two weeks after filming. Developed and produced in close collaboration with HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, AMAZON ADVENTURE also received major funding from the National Science Foundation through the film’s educational outreach partner, Pacific Science Center. Other key partners include the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Simons Foundation, and Foxconn Brazil and Vale. About SK FILMS SK Films is a Toronto-based, multi-platform entertainment content provider and a world leader in 3D film production and distribution. The company was founded in 1998 by Jonathan Barker and the late Robert Kerr, the visionary co-founder of IMAX Corporation. About HHMI Tangled Bank Studios HHMI Tangled Bank Studios is a production company established and funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as an extension of its longstanding science education mission. Dedicated to the creation of original science documentaries for broadcast, theatrical and digital distribution, the company’s award- winning programs address important contemporary issues and capture compelling stories of discovery across all branches of scientific inquiry. For more information, please visit www.tangledbankstudios.org. About the film: AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D World Premiere: April 18, 2017 Run Time: 45 Minutes File Formats: 3D IMAX, Giant Screen, 15/70 Dome and Digital 3D Cinemas CONTACTS For Media: For Sales & Marketing: Eddie Ward / Roslan & Campion PR Amber Hawtin / SK Films 212.966.4600 / [email protected] 416-367-0440 ext. 3033 / [email protected] SK Films 3 April 2017 “On these expanded membranes Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modification of species” –Henry Walter Bates,The Naturalist on the River Amazons (1863) Why Make Amazon Adventure 3D? The most fundamental reason for making Amazon Adventure 3D is to increase the public’s understanding of the concept of natural selection – the heart of evolutionary, molecular and genetic biology, with relevant implications to many aspects of modern day science and our overall understanding of how the natural world works. The filmmakers at SK Films (SK), in partnership with HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and such prestigious scientific organizations as the National Science Foundation (NSF), Pacific Science Center, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Simons Foundation and Foxconn Brazil and Vale wanted to reveal the vital and fascinating concept of natural selection in the most entertaining and powerful way, so that it would become an important part of lifelong learning for students and general audiences. Everyone agreed that the most impactful way to do this was through the incredible true story of naturalist Henry Bates and his journey, as a young man, through the heart of the Amazon rainforest in the 1850s. Bates’ story is told like a great scientific detective mystery. The clues unfold in real time in the mesmerizing world of animal mimicry and camouflage – where things are not always what they seem. Set in the lush and bio diverse Amazon rainforest, the film showcases over 50 exotic animals. All are seen from Bates’ point of view, as he navigates inside the dense jungle, or sails on his “cuberta” boat or paddles his dugout canoe across the Amazon River and its tributaries, often with his native guide, Tando. The filmmakers wanted audiences to relate to Henry Bates as both a scientist and a regular person. Showing Bates’ human side makes him more relatable and his science more readily followed and understood by audiences of all ages. They also wanted viewers to feel like they are right there with Bates and for audiences to experience what Bates must have gone through in the Amazon rainforest, the highs and lows of trying to find evidence that species change – like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Who is Henry Walter Bates? Batesian Mimicry During his time in the Amazon, Henry Bates had great powers of concentration and still today he is revered as an extraordinary field biologist. He made crucial contributions to evolutionary biology by discovering the phenomenon of mimicry, now known as “Batesian mimicry,” whereby a non- poisonous species slowly and unknowingly changes into a mimic of a poisonous one, or one that gives it a better chance to survive being eaten. For example, a harmless four-inch viper caterpillar looks exactly like the head of a poisonous viper snake, which fools many birds and dragonflies into not trying to eat it for fear they might get eaten themselves; or a tasty butterfly looks just like one full of unpleasant toxins, again fooling its predators. While in the Amazon, Bates collected and catalogued specimens from over 14,000 species--8,000 of them new to science--including over 100 species of butterflies. Batesian mimicry is still taught in science classrooms and continues to amaze and delight students around the world. The Beautiful Proof Henry Bates travelled to the Amazon with his friend and fellow naturalist Alfred Wallace. They worked together for a brief time and then separated to cover more territory and study variations of species in the Amazon to answer the question: Do species change? For over 20 years, from the time when he voyaged to remote parts of the world on the HMS Beagle ship, Charles Darwin was working on his theory of natural selection, which he finally published in 1859, called On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. It was published while Bates was returning home to England after 11 years of researching and collecting in the Amazon. Through Bates’ fieldwork with mimicking butterflies, he was also able to put forward the first ever case for speciation, which is the gradual and slow transformation of one species into another.
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