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Saturday, March 10: Pre-Expo Day
TIME EVENT LOCATION Westin: Westlake 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm Registration and Information Foyer
Sunday, March 11: Pre-Expo Day
TIME EVENT LOCATION Rehearsals (see GSCA registration desk All Day Pacific Science Center for detailed schedule) 8:00 am 24-hour rule begins Westin: Cascade 8:00 am - 6:00 pm Registration and Information Foyer North 9:00 am - 11:30 am GSCA Board Meeting (breakfast served) Westin: Pine Committee Meetings (snacks served): Westin: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm - Technical Pike - Industry Development Pine Committee Meetings: Westin: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - Event Planning Pine - Member Services Pike 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Distributors Interest Group Meeting* Westin: Pike Opening Reception sponsored by Westin: Fifth Avenue 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm SK Films (all attendees are welcome) Room Dinner on your own
Monday, March 12: Film Expo Day 1
TIME EVENT LOCATION Breakfast on your own 8:00 am Walk or take Monorail to theater 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Registration and Information Pacific Science Center 8:30 am - 8:45 am Welcome Pacific Science Center 8:45 am - 9:30 am Film 1: We, The Marines (2D) Pacific Science Center 9:30 am - 10:15 am Film 2: Pandas (3D) Pacific Science Center 10:15 am - 10:30 am Break Pacific Science Center 10:30 am - 11:15 am Film 3: America’s Musical Journey (3D) Pacific Science Center 11:15 am - 11:50 am Projects in Development Pacific Science Center 11:50 am - 12:00 pm Trailers Pacific Science Center 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch on your own
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Monday, March 12: Film Expo Day 1 (cont.) Seattle
TIME EVENT LOCATION Center Roy St. 4th Ave. 1:15 pm - 3:15 pm Films in Production Session Pacific Science Center EMP/SFM Mercer St. Pacific 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm Break Pacific Science Center Science Center MONO Space RAIL 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm Film 4: Planet Power (3D) Pacific Science Center Needle 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Film 5: Amazon Adventure (3D) Pacific Science Center Broad St. Republican
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm Film 6: Oceans: Our Blue Planet (3D) Pacific Science Center 6th Ave.
Oceans: Our Blue Planet Reception, Pacific Science Center Harrison 5:45 pm - 7:15 pm sponsored by Giant Screen Films and Ackerley Family Exhibit BBC Earth (all attendees are welcome) Gallery TaylorThomas Ave. Dinner on your own John St. Denny Way
Tuesday, March 13: Film Expo Day 2
TIME EVENT LOCATION Westin: Westlake 7:30 am - 9:00 am Registration and Information Foyer N Pacific Science Center 200 2nd Ave N 8:00 am - 9:15 am GSCA Member Meeting and Breakfast Westin: Pine Seattle, WA 98109 9:15 am Walk or take Monorail to theater (206) 443-2001 10:00 am - 4:45 pm Registration and Information Pacific Science Center Westin Hotel 3rd Ave. 3rd 6th Ave. 10:00 am - 10:45 am Film 7: Backyard Wilderness (3D) Pacific Science Center 4th Ave. 1900 5th Ave Walk Route 10:45 am - 11:30 am Film 8: The Story of Earth (3D) Pacific Science Center 1.1 Miles Seattle, WA 98101 11:30 am - 12:15 pm Film 9: Conquest of the Skies 3D Pacific Science Center (206) 728-1000 The Hotel Monorail 12:15 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch on your own Warwick 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Film 10: In Saturn’s Rings (2D) Pacific Science Center 2:45 pm - 3:30 pm Film 11: Australia: Life in the Wild (2D) Pacific Science Center Hotel 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Break Pacific Science Center Westin
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Film 12: Mountain Quest (2D) Pacific Science Center Westlake Ave. 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm Film 13: (2D) Pacific Science Center Volcanoes Olive Macy’s 5:15 pm Walk or take Monorail to Westin Pine St. WestlakeCenter 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm GSCA Board Meeting Westin: Pine MONO Nordstrom Dinner on your own RAIL PacificPlace
12:00 am 24-Hour Rule Ends Pike St.
*These special interest groups are privately held meetings and are by invitation only. Special interest groups are 5th Ave. run and managed by GSCA members; however, they are not official GSCA groups.
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Amazon America’s Australia: Life DCI-compliant Laser, Dome-customized Adventure Musical Journey in the Wild 15/70, Fulldome Digital Presented in 3D Presented in 3D Rough/Fine Cut LENGTH: 42:59 RELEASE DATE: April 14, 2017 RELEASE DATE: February 16, Presented in 2D PRODUCER: Arise Media and Archipelago Films FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 2018 RELEASE DATE: 2018 DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, [email protected] Laser, DCI-compliant IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX WEBSITE: backyardwildernessfilm.com Digital, DCI-compliant DCI-compliant Digital, Laser, DCI-compliant Backyard Wilderness will surprise and Laser, Dome-customized DCI-compliant Laser, Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, entertain viewers with the unexpected 15/70, Fulldome Digital Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital wonders of nature that are right under our LENGTH: 45:29 and 25:00 (45:29 at Film Expo) LENGTH: 40:00 LENGTH: 40:00 noses—in our own backyards. Spanning a PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman PRODUCER: Wild Pacific Media & Definition Films seasonal year around a suburban home, the CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, [email protected] Films DISTRIBUTOR: Distributed by K2 film displays a stunning array of unique WEBSITE: amazonadventurefilm.com CONTACT: Patty Collins, Communications and Distributed in Australia wildlife images and behavior—all captured Amazon Adventure tells the epic, true [email protected] and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment by cameras mounted inside dens and nests, story of explorer Henry Bates’ 11-year WEBSITE: americasmusicaljourney.com CONTACT: Mark Kresser, and moving along the forest floor and pond journey through the visually stunning and Narrated by Academy Award winner [email protected]; bottom, to reveal its inhabitants in rare and bio-diverse Amazon rainforest as a young Morgan Freeman, America’s Musical Journey Ed Capelle, [email protected] breathtaking intimacy. We follow Katie, a man who risks his life for science. celebrates the unique diversity of cultures Crocodiles are the ultimate predators. They young girl, and her modern family living next Experience the compelling clues Bates and creative risk-taking that characterize attack with stealth, are extremely aggressive to the woods who are blind to the real-life unearths in his major science discovery America, as told through the story of its and can grow up to 7 meters in length. Up spectacle around them, absorbed by an array of of the rare phenomenon of mimicry, music. Follow Grammy Award®-nominated here, they have even been known to attack electronic devices in their busy lives. Katie whereby certain animals adopt the look singer/songwriter Aloe Blacc as he traces and pull fisherman out of boats. This film will gradually discovers the intricate secrets that of others which helps them deceive the roots of America’s music and follows the carry the viewers across the whole Top End nature has hidden so close to her front door predators and gain an advantage to footsteps of Louis Armstrong through the of Australia, from the wild Kimberly coast and we experience the joy she finds in her survive. Bates, the scientific hero you’ve colorful locales where American music was through mysterious and rarely seen Arnhem interactions with this new world. The film likely never heard of, made other crucial born. Visiting cities such as New Orleans, Land and then deep into the world’s oldest reminds us that Wi-Fi is not the only contributions: identifying 8,000 species Chicago, New York, Nashville, Memphis, rainforest in Cape York. Come with us on an connection that matters and that sometimes new to science, most importantly, putting Miami, and more, audiences will experience epic journey through some of the wildest in ordinary places, you can uncover forward the first ever case for the paddle-wheeling up the Mississippi Delta, landscapes on Earth as we take you deep extraordinary things that could transform you creation of a new species which Charles flash mob dancing in Chicago, and skydiving into crocodile’s world. Australia: Life in the forever—you just need to step outside. Darwin called the “beautiful proof” for his with Elvis impersonators in scenes shot Wild will be shot in magnificent 8K for IMAX and other giant screen theaters. Specialized theory of Natural Selection. Viewers will exclusively for the giant screen. Along the Conquest of underwater camera rigs have been designed be wowed by over 80 different animals, way, they’ll discover the unique collision of the Skies 3D cultures that gave birth to America’s music, to get the audience closer than ever before Presented in 3D mind-boggling examples of camouflage to the most powerful jaws on Earth. A story 320 million RELEASE DATE: Spring 2017 culminating in a one-of-a-kind blend of years in the making and mimicry and inspired by Bates’ sound, culture and innovation unlike FORMATS: 2D and 3D, endless curiosity and determination to anywhere else in the world. A MacGillivray Backyard 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX explore and understand the natural world Freeman film produced in association with Wilderness Laser, DCI-compliant around him. SERENGETI ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS A COLOSSUS PRODUCTIONS FILM IN ASSOCIATION WITH SKY 3D “CONQUEST OF THE SKIES 3D” Presented in 3D NARRATOR MARK BONNAR VFX SUPERVISOR JAMES PROSSER CINEMATOGRAPHER PAUL WILLIAMS COMPOSER GRAHAM HADFIELD Digital, DCI-compliant Brand USA and presented by Expedia. EDITOR PETER MILLER DIRECTOR DAVID LEE SUPERVISING PRODUCER MIKE DAVIS PRODUCER ANTHONY GEFFEN
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RELEASE DATE: March 21, COTSkies_1Sheet_AW.indd 1 22/11/2016 13:42 Laser, Dome-customized 2018 15/70, Fulldome Digital FORMATS: 2D and 3D, LENGTH: 39:43 and 20:00 (39:43 at Film Expo) IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, PRODUCER: Colossus Productions DCI-compliant Digital, DISTRIBUTOR: Serengeti Entertainment
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CONTACT: Melissa Williams, from the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn, [email protected] Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Hubble Telescope WEBSITE: serengetientertainment.com/ and Milky Way time lapses are brought to screeners/conquest_of_the_skies.html# life in a ground-breaking epic immersive The ability to fly is one of the greatest journey across space and time. From the wonders in the natural world. Millions of earliest images after the Big Bang to the creatures soar above our heads today. But final photographs Cassini took before how did animals make the incredible plunging to die in Saturn’s clouds, In Saturn’s transition from land to air? Conquest of the Rings is, like space exploration itself, a Skies uses the very latest science and journey of the heart, mind and spirit that stunning special effects to uncover the moves audiences with awe-inspiring images 320-million-year story of flight—and it’s not and powerful music. In Saturn’s Rings simply about birds. Using advanced 3D contains some of the most amazing space filming technology, we capture the beauty footage ever, including a 10-day and night and excitement of the whole world of flying 5-camera Milky Way timelapse, a stunning creatures, from the fastest predatory falcons view of millions of individual galaxies in a to the most acrobatic of insects, night flyers single frame, and a jaw-dropping flyover like owls and bats, and the soaring and over Saturn’s moon Titan connected with gliding specialists capable of traveling huge locations on Earth with never-before-seen distances. Audiences will enter the truly imagery. DCI-Compliant Digital and Laser amazing world of these animal aviators and available May 4th, IMAX Digital & Laser leave the theater both stunned by the shortly after, and 15/70mm later in summer. spectacle and thrilled by the story of how Native fulldome digital Q3 2018. animals rose up and conquered the skies. Mountain Quest In Saturn’s Rough/Fine Cut Rings Presented in 2D Rough/Fine Cut RELEASE DATE: 2018 Presented in 2D FORMATS: 2D and 3D, RELEASE DATE: May 4, 2018 IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, IMAX DCI-compliant Digital, Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, DCI-compliant Laser, Fulldome Digital Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital LENGTH: 37:07 LENGTH: 40:00 and 22:00 (40:00 at Film Expo) PRODUCER: Stranger Than Fiction Films PRODUCER: SV2 Studios DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications DISTRIBUTOR: Big & Digital CONTACT: Mark Kresser, CONTACT: Tina Ratterman, [email protected]; [email protected] Ed Capelle, [email protected] WEBSITE: insaturnsrings.com A lone climber, suspended hundreds of feet Narrated by LeVar Burton, In Saturn’s Rings in the air, struggles to find the next finger is a grand tour of the universe starring hold, defining progress in inches. The dramatic Saturn. 7.5 million mostly unseen images visuals immerse us in a gripping contest of
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human determination versus the reality of the Arctic to the balmy waters of the tropics gravity’s potent grip. Mountain Quest and the ocean depths, we share these explores the precarious relationship of extraordinary new discoveries. Using humanity’s quest to scale some of the revolutionary underwater and on-board world’s highest places, while also revealing filming technology, we’ll dive into the giant the scientific and technological advances void of the big blue, to explore the most that have enabled us to conquer these peaks, spectacular locations, dramatic events and exposing the heartbeat of the human soul. A the intimate lives of the ocean’s most tapestry of jaw-dropping action, combined with extraordinary creatures. Through these rich STEM content—how climbing is a tug-of-war encounters we’ll also discover how we all between friction and gravity, while skiing depend on the health of this, the largest involves the same battle of forces in reverse. environment on earth. Educational insights about the engineering of climbing gear and skis, and the aeronautical Pandas effects of a wingsuit, are seamlessly integrated Presented in 3D with dramatic visuals and action. The film will RELEASE DATE: April 6, be narrated by Willem Dafoe and release 2018 early 2018. FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX Oceans: Our Laser, Dome-customized Blue Planet 15/70 Presented in 3D LENGTH: 41:41 RELEASE DATE: March 16, PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation 2018 CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] FORMATS: 2D and 3D, Pandas, an IMAX® original film for the whole 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX family, is a story of hope, friendship and Laser, DCI-compliant survival. At China’s Chengdu Panda Base, the Digital, DCI-compliant scientist leading a successful captive Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 breeding program is ready to take a bold LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 (40:00 at Film Expo) new step. Inspired by the work of a black PRODUCER: BBC Earth and Alucia Productions bear rehabilitator in New Hampshire, a team DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films and BBC Earth of U.S. and Chinese scientists collaborate on CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] an innovative project to release captive-born WEBSITE: bbcearth.com/oceans pandas into the wild—using methods never Oceans: Our Blue Planet is an extraordinary previously tried with pandas.Captured with journey of discovery and wonder, transporting IMAX® Cameras, the film follows the journey the audience to the deep, mysterious worlds of a young cub named Qian Qian as she of our oceans. Packed with drama, awe, and leaves the comfort of the panda base behind spectacle, we reveal untold stories of the and prepares for a life-changing journey into ocean’s most astonishing creatures. The the misty mountains of Sichuan. Pandas is oceans are the only place on earth where the directed by David Douglas and Drew rate of new scientific discovery is increasing, Fellman, the filmmakers behind Born To Be expanding our frontiers of knowledge and Wild and Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar. revealing richer diversity than we could ever Fellman wrote and produced, with Douglas have imagined. From the freezing shores of serving as director of photography.
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Planet Power The Story Volcanoes We, The Presented in 3D of Earth Rough/Fine Cut Marines RELEASE DATE: March 2018 Presented in 3D Presented in 2D Presented in 2D FORMATS: 2D and 3D, RELEASE DATE: In digital RELEASE DATE: Fall 2018 RELEASE DATE: November DCI-compliant Digital, March 2018 and 15/70 in FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 2017 IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, April 2018 IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, IMAX Dome-customized 15/70, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, Digital, IMAX Laser, Fulldome digital 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX DCI-Compliant Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, LENGTH: 38:21 and 20:00 Laser, DCI-compliant Dome-customized 15/70, DCI-compliant Laser, (38:21 at Film Expo) Digital, DCI-Compliant Laser, Dome- Fulldome Digital Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital PRODUCER: N3D Land Films customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital LENGTH: 42:00 LENGTH: 38:00 DISTRIBUTOR: nWave Pictures Distribution LENGTH: 40:03 PRODUCER: Digital Crossing Films PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman CONTACT: Alexandre Milazzo, PRODUCER: December Media DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films Films [email protected]; Janine Baker, DISTRIBUTOR: December Media Distribution CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, [email protected] CONTACT: Patty Collins, [email protected]; Goedele Gillis, CONTACT: Mark Bretherton, mark@ WEBSITE: volcanoesthemovie.com [email protected] [email protected]; Jennifer Lee Hackett, decembermedia.com.au; Shaun McAlpine, Volcanoes — The Fires of Creation is a tale WEBSITE: wethemarinesfilm.com [email protected] [email protected]; Matt of science, culture, and thrilling adventure. We, The Marines is an action-packed, giant WEBSITE: planetpower-thefilm.com/#slide Downey, [email protected] Earth is a planet born of fire. For billions of screen film that immerses audiences in the Planet Power tells the story of electricity, WEBSITE: thestoryofearth.film years volcanoes have helped create the unparalleled experience of becoming and from the first spark created by man’s hand This is the story of a remarkable planet, world we know. From the continents, to the serving as a member of the U.S. Marine to the largest power plants, the age of unlike any other yet found across deep air we breathe, and even life itself, all have Corps. Narrated by Academy Award- miracles to that of industry, from Benjamin space. Born from dying stars, it was their origins in fire. These processes have winning actor and former marine, Gene Franklin’s kite to Solar Impulse, the first sculpted by violent collisions in space. Yet, created extraordinary ecosystems and Hackman, the film uses the giant screen to solar-powered plane capable of perpetual in an epic journey, this hostile ball of molten wildlife habitats, from the home of mountain honor the dedication, the service and the flight. Thus, it is also a story of pioneers, rock transformed itself into a nurturing gorillas in Central Africa, to the shores of first-hand experiences that create the scientists and inventors, one that began environment. From it emerged forms of life, Hawaii, to the Serengeti and beyond—and undeniable bonds among America’s “first 200 years ago, driven by innovation. Today, none of which have been found anywhere continue to do so to this day. With over responders.” The result is an inspirational electricity is indispensable to mankind. else in the universe. That planet is not 500 active volcanoes, our Earth is bursting and moving tribute to the lives and legacy Energy of choice for innovation and millions of light years away either. You are at the seams with these forces of mass of the men and women who honor and development, electricity is also the energy standing on it right now. It is Earth. construction. The story of volcanoes is the defend our country. Produced in association of our future, as long as it is produced in a Stunning and complex visualizations based story of Earth’s creation, and the story of us. with the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation cleaner and more sustainable way. By on the latest scientific modeling will take With explorer Carsten Peter, dodge and the National Museum of the Marine mixing traditional animation and CGI to audiences back in time to the origins of our boulders at the edge of an active volcano in Corps. spectacular aerial shots, Planet Power planet as we explore the extraordinary Indonesia, descend to a lava lake in shows how renewable energy can help us chain of events that made life not only Vanuatu, visit a ghost town following an fight climate change while improving our possible but sustainable. Journey forward to eruption, and look on in awe and wonder at quality of life and protecting the today, to meet a team of geologists volcanic mineral deposit fields in Ethiopia. environment. Now, thanks to clean traveling the globe looking for clues that Audiences will be on the edge of their seats technologies, the greatest forces of nature help us piece together what is, as far as we as they discover molten worlds and can help make our planet cooler and our know, a unique story in our universe. From exploding craters in this adrenaline-filled, future better. the producers of Hidden Universe and The immersive experience that only IMAX®/giant Search of Life in Space. The film will be screen films can provide. available in 2D and 3D, 15/70 and digital full dome, IMAX digital and IMAX laser and DCI compliant digital.
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Cuba Great Barrier Reef one of the rarest animals on Earth-the fabled building whose scale and ambition rivals the Presented in 2D Presented in 2D all-white Spirit Bear. These remarkable creatures pyramids of Egypt, Angkor is the scene of one RELEASE DATE: January 2019 RELEASE DATE: June 1, 2018 live in the lush temperate rainforests of British of the greatest vanishing acts of all time. Many FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, Columbia on Canada’s West Coast, where they experts have attempted to provide answers, and Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- hold almost mythic status among the region’s theories abound. 1300 carved inscriptions survive Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, indigenous people. Shot exclusively for the on temple doorjambs, but the Khmer people of LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 Fulldome Digital giant screen, Great Bear Rainforest (working Angkor left not a single word explaining their PRODUCER: Golden Gate 3D in association with LENGTH: 42:00 PRODUCER: December Media title) will offer a remarkable journey into one of kingdom’s collapse. This will be a visually BBC Earth and Giant Screen Films DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films the planet’s most spectacular wildernesses—a stunning film ... an epic adventure where science, DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films and BBC Earth CONTACT: Patty Collins, [email protected] land of wolves, grizzly bears, humpback whales, mystery and ancient civilization intersect. CONTACT: Yasmine Garcia, [email protected] WEBSITE: greatbarrierreeffilm.com sea lions, sea otters and others—as it explores the secret world of the Spirit Bear. Out of Bounds Cuba tells the powerful story of a land Every year millions of visitors travel by way Presented in 3D preserved in time yet poised today on the cusp of fins, flippers and feet to see one of the Hidden Pacific RELEASE DATE: Fall 2019 of dramatic change. Through the eyes of Cuban seven wonders of the natural world: the Presented in 2D FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX artists, historians, and marine biologists, Great Barrier Reef—a living treasure trove of RELEASE DATE: Summer 2018 Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant audiences will have a rare opportunity to biodiversity. There is still so much to learn, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital explore this amazing country at a pivotal and knowledge is the key to understanding Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant LENGTH: 40:00 moment in its history. Produced in association more about this living Eden. A thriving Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 PRODUCER: K2 Communications with with BBC Earth and the Giant Dome Theater metropolis populated by a cast of characters LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 Wild Pacific Media Consortium. straight out of an adventure novel—heroes, PRODUCER: Tandem Stills + Motion and Giant DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications bad guys, sidekicks, lovers and clowns— Screen Films DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films CONTACT: Mark Kresser, First Steps they’re all players in this vast underwater drama. Presented in 2D CONTACT: Yasmine Garcia, [email protected] [email protected]; Today, a new generation of reef guardians are RELEASE DATE: 2019 Hidden Pacific will bring the Pacific Ocean’s Ed Capelle, [email protected] committed to protecting this marine reserve, FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, protected and remote national wildlife refuge Follow Australian Olympic snowboarder Torah making a difference and sharing their DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, islands and marine national monuments to Bright as she heads from her home in the knowledge of this extraordinary ecosystem, Dome-customized 15/70 giant screen cinemas. The film captures the foothills of the Australian Alps, deep into the beating heart of the reef. In Great Barrier LENGTH: 40:00 beauty of these emerald islets, the conservation Alaska’s glaciated Chugach mountain range. Reef, learn how this amazing sanctuary has PRODUCER: Statement Pictures/CNN Films efforts to restore their ecosystems, and the Torah dedicated her life to conquering the endured for thousands of years and will DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined diversity of life on both land and reef. Produced mountain, and now she’s working with her continue to do so far into the future. CONTACT: Christian Fry, [email protected] in partnership with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. team to understand and protect these epic WEBSITE: firststepsmovie.com Great Bear Rainforest ecosystems from an ever-changing world. Presented in 2D Lost Empire of Angkor Standing over the ledge of a 2000-foot vertical Timed for release on the 50th anniversary of Presented in 2D RELEASE DATE: February 2019 drop, we unravel the science behind the earth’s the first lunar landing, First Steps is a direct- RELEASE DATE: October 2018 FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX most incredible mountain environments and cinema historical experience of the dramatic FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant ride these untamed peaks. Apollo 11 mission. With the assistance of NASA DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital and the National Archives, and a global team of Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital LENGTH: 40:00 Secrets of the Sands researchers and archivists, the film uses LENGTH: 42:00 PRODUCER: Helio Projects Asia Presented in 2D PRODUCER: Spirit Bear Entertainment Inc. never-before-seen footage from 1969 and tells DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications RELEASE DATE: Autumn 2018 DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films the story entirely through archival materials; CONTACT: Mark Kresser, FORMATS: 2D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, CONTACT: Patty Collins, [email protected] giving audiences a thrilling firsthand experience [email protected]; DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser of humanity’s first trip to another world. From Filmmakers Ian McAllister and Jeff Turner and Ed Capelle, [email protected] LENGTH: 40:00 the Emmy© Award-winning filmmakers of Executive Producers Kyle Washington and A civilization that rose to become the envy of PRODUCER: Atlantic Productions Dinosaur 13 and CNN Films, First Steps will be Byron Horner of Spirit Bear Entertainment are the world, only to disappear—a mystery waiting DISTRIBUTOR: Serengeti Entertainment available Summer 2019. partnering with MacGillivray Freeman Films to to be unlocked by modern archaeologists, scientists CONTACT: Melissa Williams, distribute a beautiful giant screen film about and explorers. Following an epic spree of religious [email protected]
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Secrets of the Sands tells the tale of how an to be solved. Little did he know that he and his CONTACT: Alexandre Milazzo, world away, migrate, with mysterious precision, ancient people gained a remarkable mastery team’s discoveries would not only reveal the [email protected]; Janine Baker, back to the very beach where they were born— over one of the most inhospitable landscapes laws of nature governing the complex jbaker@nwave,com; Goedele Gillis, to lay eggs that are the foundation of the next on the planet. This is a captivating human story Serengeti, but rules that affect all ecosystems. [email protected]; Jennifer Lee Hackett, generation. With the turtles guiding us, our crews that stretches back over 125,000 years. A [email protected] voyaged the same thousands of kilometers to story of ingenuity, survival, and triumph over Secrets of the Universe capture the wonders of their habitats. Encountering Presented in 3D The Northern hemisphere is preparing for winter adversity—centuries-old achievements that many kinds of strange and compelling creatures, RELEASE DATE: April 2019 and its customary blanket of snow. Late at night, underpin the extraordinary success of the from enormous breaching whales to the coral FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX Sigurd Haraldson crisscrosses the mountains of United Arab Emirates today. From the coastal wonderland of the Great Barrier Reef—all have Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant his Alpine home at the controls of his snowplough. people of the Stone Age who retrieved been filmed in stunning 3D so that playful sea Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome On his radar screens, he tracks a snowstorm precious pearls deep beneath the waters of lions, tiny sea horses and vibrant clown fish Digital that is gaining ground in Northern Canada and the Gulf, to the ancient oasis engineers who will float right out into the theater. Sea turtles LENGTH: 40:00 about to make its way East. He hopes it’s going tapped into hidden reservoirs of rainwater remind us just how interconnected we all are PRODUCER: The Stephen Low Company to head his way. All over the world, people are deep underground, and the pioneering in this amazing world and audiences will be DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications waiting for the arrival of snow and everything navigators who first tamed wild camels to trek moved to cherish them even more. CONTACT: Mark Kresser, it will bring. In Canada, the first flakes are across the largest sand desert in the world. Epic [email protected] already falling on the great pine forests. In cinematography, stunning CGI and vibrant Yellowstone: Life in Extremes Ed Capelle, [email protected] Poland, animals are picking at the last blades Presented in 2D animations shed new light on one of the most WEBSITE: secretsoftheuniversefilm.com of grass before the snow sets in. In France’s RELEASE DATE: To be determined extraordinary chapters in human history. low-lying ski resorts, hoteliers are impatient. Breakthrough advancements in technology are FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Beneath the stars in his snow plough in the Secrets of the Serengeti enabling never-before-possible scientific DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser Alps, Sigurd wonders about snow, its structure Presented in 2D experimentation. These fascinating machines, LENGTH: 45:00 PRODUCER: Grizzly Creek Films and what happens to it when it reaches the RELEASE DATE: 2019 such as the $13 billion Large Hadron Collider in DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined ground. But he also wonders how much FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Geneva, Switzerland, provide an unprecedented CONTACT: Thomas Winston, longer the magical snow spectacle will last. DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, pathway to answers surrounding the nature of [email protected] Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital our universe. Thousands of scientists, with a Turtle Odyssey For centuries, a single place in North America LENGTH: 42:00 diversity of backgrounds and expertise, journey Presented in 2D has captured the world’s imagination: PRODUCER: SK Films and Digital Crossing Films from all over the world to labs like CERN (the RELEASE DATE: Summer 2018 Yellowstone. But the world’s first National Park DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films host of the LHC) and Fermilab (new host of FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, has never before been experienced like this. CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, [email protected] ICARUS and the highly anticipated DUNE DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, Follow nature’s epic drama as a struggle for Secrets of the Serengeti is the epic, true story project)—now with a real hope of unlocking the Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital survival unfolds over a year in the life of the of a major scientific discovery, set against the secrets that have long eluded us. Dark matter, LENGTH: 42:00 iconic resident grizzly bears, wolves and bison. greatest mammal migration on the planet, in antimatter, extra dimensions, and more. Join PRODUCER: Definition Films DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films The stage is set in a place like no other: a place one of its most iconic and astounding places— them as they push the boundaries of the CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, [email protected] where the world’s largest active supervolcano the massive and mainly untouched Serengeti possible, on the cusp of turning science fiction WEBSITE: turtleodysseyfilm.com fuels the biggest collection of geothermal of Eastern Africa. What exactly triggers this into science fact. Sea turtles are some of Earth’s most ancient features anywhere on earth, a place where ancient cycle remains unclear, but it begins with and majestic creatures. For over 100 million subzero temperatures and record snowfall the action of just a few wildebeest, soon followed Snow dictate harsh trials in a stunning, frozen Presented in 3D years, they have traversed the seas, surviving by over 1.5 million more, as well as thousands wonderland, a place where North America’s RELEASE DATE: Summer 2019 multiple mass extinctions and playing critical of others, including zebras and elands, with richest ecosystem offers a rare glimpse into the FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, roles in maintaining healthy marine food webs. hungry predators always lurking nearby. All continent’s wild past. Filmed for two straight DCI-compliant Digital Not only do these friendly animals captivate us this grandeur would become part of the years, Yellowstone: Life in Extremes is the LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 as they peacefully glide through the ocean, but unstoppable quest of a young man named Tony most ambitious giant screen production ever PRODUCER: Saint Thomas Production/nWave their personal journeys of survival are equally Sinclair to understand how it all works. It was attempted in the iconic national park. And, Studio fascinating. These remarkable reptiles will one of the greatest puzzles of nature, waiting once again, the whole world will be watching. DISTRIBUTOR: nWave Pictures Distribution traverse thousands of kilometers of open ocean for as long as 50 years and then, from half a
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Dinosaurs of Antarctica the cosmos. Meet two dynamic female RELEASE DATE: Summer 2019 astrophysicists who were inspired by Einstein’s FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, ideas in their youth and are now pushing the IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- boundaries of scientific innovation to make their compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 own groundbreaking discoveries. LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films Expedition Chesapeake, CONTACT: Yasmine Garcia, [email protected] A Journey of Discovery Journey to the south polar landscapes of Earth RELEASE DATE: February 2019 100 million years ago, a world of primitive FORMATS: 2D, DCI-compliant Digital forests and thick swamps—populated by bizarre LENGTH: 44:00 dinosaurs and colossal amphibians. Enter a PRODUCER: Via Studios Global surreal world of Permian and Triassic bug-eyed DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined giants and egg-laying mammals—where survival CONTACT: Michael Hanes, meant enduring the sunless, six-month polar [email protected] winter surrounded by meat-eaters with night WEBSITE: expeditionchesapeake.org vision. Join Antarctic scientists on a quest to Imagine a 64,000 square mile expanse understand Earth at a time of great climatic and encompassing portions of six states and filled geologic upheaval—and to unravel the mystery with the stunning natural beauty of the largest behind the largest extinction in the history of estuary in North America. This is Expedition our planet. Made possible with support by the Chesapeake, A Journey of Discovery, presented National Science Foundation. for the first time on the giant screen. The film tells the story of the Chesapeake Bay through Einstein’s Incredible the lives of our ancestors and our neighbors. Universe Our expedition leader, celebrity naturalist Jeff RELEASE DATE: Fall 2020 Corwin, introduces us to people from all walks FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, of life who are doing their part to protect and IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- preserve this national treasure. Our journey compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 through the Chesapeake watershed explores LENGTH: 40:00 the intricate web of relationships among PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Cosmic Picture people, plants, animals, land and the most CONTACT: Taran Davies, [email protected] critical natural resource, water. We discover WEBSITE: cosmicpicture.com how seemingly small efforts to improve the Albert Einstein is regarded as one of the most natural environment where we live also famous scientists of all time, his name shorthand improve the health of the entire Bay. These for genius, yet few of us fully understand his lessons can be equally applied to watersheds discoveries and their impact on our lives. Now across the nation and around the world. through a combination of stunning live-action cinematography and immersive CGI, audiences Fire Fighters will experience the puzzles that inspired him as RELEASE DATE: Fall 2019 a child and the visceral “thought experiments” FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, at the heart of his creative process. Travel IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- through space and time, race a beam of light, compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, plunge into colliding black holes and experience Fulldome Digital gravitational waves—ripples in the very fabric of LENGTH: 40:00
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PRODUCER: Sean Casey Productions genetics and epidemiology, Gorilla Girl is an of the Louvre. Crucially, he showed them what Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined inspiring story of our interdependence with nobody would ever see again in its entirety: his Digital, 15/70 if appropriate CONTACT: Sean Casey, [email protected] nature, and how saving one of the Earth’s boxes of drawings and sketch books, containing LENGTH: 45:00 and 20:00 After years of drought, 120 million trees stand most majestic species can lift the fortunes of his entire researches on human and comparative PRODUCER: Principal Large Format and Vulcan dead in California. That fuel, coupled with an an entire human population. anatomy, his engineering projects, the plans Productions ever-increasing urban sprawl, has set the stage for his civil engineering and military machines, DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced for “Super Fire Sieges.” A new term, for a new Gravity 3D his flying machines, his theatre sets, his “useful CONTACT: Phil Streater, [email protected] age. But, if there is any profession that invokes RELEASE DATE: 2020 inventions.” Celebrating the 500th anniversary Earth is not covered by “Seven Seas,” as we heroism, it is that of the firefighter. In this new FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, of his death, the film will immerse us into a once learned in school, but one single large-format film we enter the lives of these IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital unique creative universe. A great moment of interconnected ocean. In Ocean 3D we will first responders, their training, their brotherhood, LENGTH: 45:00 revelations around his painting, his studies. experience this world of water as if for the and their work, fighting a new breed of fire. PRODUCER: December Media/Boston Films More than 13,000 pages in all of sketches, first time, through stunning giant-screen 3D Three firefighters with different disciplines will DISTRIBUTOR: December Media Distribution drawings and research. imagery and a unique perspective—a converge on the largest fire in California’s CONTACT: Mark Bretherton, breathtaking rollercoaster ride through the recorded history, the 2017 Thomas Fire. [email protected]; Shaun Ocean 3D ever-streaming currents and upwellings from McAlpine, [email protected]; RELEASE DATE: 2020/2021 the abyss to the surface. A water molecule Gorilla Girl Matt Downey, [email protected] FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX riding this vast ocean conveyor belt takes a RELEASE DATE: To be determined Gravity does much more than just connect us Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, to our planet. Through the world of extreme IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- sports we’re going to place our trust in this, a compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, fundamental law of science. As we leap off Fulldome Digital waterfalls, free fall from space and jump over LENGTH: 40:00 the Arc de Triomphe, we reveal how gravity PRODUCER: Arise Media/Archipelago Films drives the creation, structure and movement of DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined the entire universe. Strap yourself into your seat, CONTACT: Susan Todd, you’re about to experience some major Gs. [email protected] Gorilla Girl interweaves the intimate story of a Leondardo Da Vinci, mountain gorilla family in breathtaking The Last Interview Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda, with one of RELEASE DATE: January 2019 their devoted caretakers—a young Rwandan FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, forest ranger named Josie. Innovative DCI-compliant Laser, Fulldome Digital, VR conservation science has led mountain gorillas LENGTH: 43:00 to become the only great ape species with an PRODUCER: Camera Lucida Productions increasing population, and gorilla tourism has DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films brought schools and clinics to the surrounding CONTACT: Bob Harman, Rwandan communities. Josie brings visitors [email protected] up the volcano to meet the gorillas face to During his visit to France in October 1517, the face. She also helps the group Gorilla Doctors Cardinal of Aragon asked to meet Leonardo da vaccinate the apes against human disease. It’s Vinci. The interview, as reported by the a delicate undertaking, but with gorillas cardinal’s secretary, took place in Amboise. On sharing 98.4 percent of their DNA with the day of the visit, Leonardo displayed to his humans, conservationists now promote the visitors three paintings he had brought with interconnected health of both species. him to France in his luggage—the Mona Lisa, Featuring cutting-edge science in ecology, the Saint John the Baptist, and the Saint Anne
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thousand years to travel the entire world Scale the poisonous volcanoes of Venus and Superpower Dogs country early explorers called Shangri-La. ocean and back. Along the way, we’ll the ancient red dunes of Mars. Bore through RELEASE DATE: Spring 2019 Along the way, we discover a critically encounter spectacular wildlife and meet the the icy crust of Europa to imagine life in FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, endangered Bengal tiger and her cubs in the heroes who fight for ocean health with hidden seas. Fly through Saturn’s dreamy rings IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- foothills of Everest. We journey through virgin creative scientific solutions. Ocean 3D will be and the alien clouds of Jupiter. The Planets is compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 forests, along sparkling rivers, and soar past a cinematic thrill ride but will also show how a journey from science fiction to “science LENGTH: 40:00 gravity-defying temples where nature is being our one ocean is crucial for our planet’s vision,” an aspirational vision of the next PRODUCER: Cosmic Picture celebrated in vibrant ceremonial festivals that health—a vast circulatory system and climate century in human space-faring achievement, DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation and Cosmic date back to the 12th century. We discover engine that supports all life on Earth, including profiling the technological and pioneering Picture Bhutan’s delicate balance between our own—leaving audiences both enlightened stepping stones thought necessary for CONTACT: Antonietta Monteleone, urbanization and tradition, in a land where and inspired. humankind to become a truly interplanetary [email protected] Gross National Happiness reigns over Gross species. Produced in association with NASA’s WEBSITES: superpowerdogs.com National Product. Tiger Trek: Bhutan 3D will Ocean Giants: A Prehistory Advanced Innovative Concepts program. The true story of a rookie puppy who inspire a sense of awe for the harmony that of Whales discovers her superpowers with the help of can be created between people and their RELEASE DATE: 2020 Secrets of Antarctica the world’s most extraordinary search and environments everywhere. FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, RELEASE DATE: To be confirmed rescue dogs. From the Canadian Rockies to IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, Venom 3D: The Bite the Italian Riviera to Northern Kenya, join compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- That Cures these heroic canines and their human partners RELEASE DATE: 2020 LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 as they brave earthquakes and avalanches, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 bring criminals to justice and lift our spirits. IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital CONTACT: Yasmine Garcia, [email protected] PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth Audiences will experience how dogs see, hear LENGTH: 45:00 Blue whales are the largest animal ever to live CONTACT: Rob Grzymala, [email protected] and smell the world and discover how we are PRODUCER: December Media/Biopixel on planet Earth, including the dinosaurs. The Exactly 200 years ago, man first set eyes on harnessing their remarkable superpowers to DISTRIBUTOR: December Media Distribution transition over millions of years from fish to Antarctica, the most remote, hostile and heal, inspire and save lives. We will never look CONTACT: Mark Bretherton, land mammal is one of life’s most astounding other-worldly continent on Earth. Now, in the at our best friends the same way again! [email protected]; Shaun transformations. The return of mammalian life harshest conditions on our planet, scientists McAlpine, [email protected]; from land to sea—a 40-million year epic—is and filmmakers are discovering just how Tiger Trek: Bhutan 3D Matt Downey, [email protected] equally profound. Join intrepid paleontologist important this icy wilderness is to the future RELEASE DATE: To be determined The animal kingdom uses venom to hunt and adventurers on a giant screen journey to of all life on Earth. From the remote sub- FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, defend itself. These deadly cocktails of toxins otherworldly ancient seas. Discover one of the Antarctic islands to the continent’s frozen IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- unleash multifaceted attacks on their victims, most illustrative evolution stories—through white heart, audiences will meet the compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, targeting the nervous system, paralyzing the extraordinary Age of Mammals—tracing exceptional wildlife that calls this home—from Fulldome Digital muscles, clotting blood and breaking down the early land-dwelling, wolf-like cetaceans to the tips of ice-covered mountains where snow LENGTH: 40:00 cells to name a few effects. But that is only the ocean giants of today. petrels nest, to the cold Southern Ocean PRODUCER: Arise Media/Archipelago Films part of the story, medical science is where hundreds of Humpback and Fin whales DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined discovering that the very same deadly toxins The Planets feed together in one of the rarest wildlife CONTACT: Katherine van Hengel, can be used to attack a myriad of debilitating RELEASE DATE: Late 2019/Early 2020 spectacles on Earth. We join researchers [email protected] FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, and fatal diseases in humans. From the thrill braving blizzards to reveal how the hardiest Tiger Trek: Bhutan 3D takes viewers on an IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI- of the chase to the world of advanced animals on earth survive, and divers venturing immersive 3D giant screen journey into the compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 medical science, follow our team of under the ice, on the hunt for new species in remote Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. It tells LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 venomologists as they risk their lives to save an unexplored world. Join us on this giant a lyrical conservation story that follows the PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films the lives of others. screen adventure and witness the rarely seen coming of age of a young monk, Tshering, as CONTACT: Yasmine Garcia, [email protected] natural wonders of a continent only now he grows to understand the people, plants revealing its secrets. and animals he encounters on a trek across a
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Amazing Mighty Micro kill, instead the audience will be emotionally Monsters 3D engaged with the key characters, learning how Presented in 3D these supreme species must be at the very peak RELEASE DATE: January 2016 of performance to have any chance of success. AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Their backstory will be a key part of the Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, narrative; to understand a cheetah’s dilemma DCI-compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, you must meet her hungry cubs. Top predators Fulldome Digital occupy an apex position within the habitats they LENGTH: 40:04 and 20:00 dominate and, alongside dramatic animal PRODUCER: Colossus Productions behaviour, Incredible Predators reveals the DISTRIBUTOR: Serengeti Entertainment unique relationship between predators and prey CONTACT: Melissa Williams, as a fundamental building block of ecology. [email protected] Museum Alive 3D FILM WEBSITE: serengetientertainment.com/ Presented in 3D screeners/amazing_mighty_micro_monsters_ RELEASE DATE: January 2016 3d.html# AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Super powers exist. Right here on Earth. And they Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, are beneath our feet. They include beetles that DCI-compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, shoot chemical fire and lift enormous weights; Fulldome Digital scorpions that glow in the dark with astonishing LENGTH: 40:04 and 20:00 crushing powers; spiders that can make PRODUCER: Colossus Productions themselves virtually invisible and hypnotise their DISTRIBUTOR: Serengeti Entertainment prey; even a bug that can transform itself into CONTACT: Melissa Williams, another creature entirely. Prepare to be amazed [email protected] SAVE THE DATES! in this 3D giant screen adventure exploring the FILM WEBSITE: serengetientertainment.com/ hidden world of the super-powered bugs. screeners/museum_alive_3d.html# SEPTEMBER 21–24, 2018 Incredible Predators The fantasy that drives sleepovers and fires the Presented in 3D imagination of every museum visitor is at the RELEASE DATE: January 27, 2017 very heart of Museum Alive 3D: what if the AVAILABLE FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX exhibits could come to life? In this magical and Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, engaging film, audiences get to follow one lucky DCI-compliant Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 visitor who stays in the museum after dark, when SEPTEMBER 21-23 LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 the most fascinating extinct prehistoric creatures Tennessee Aquarium PRODUCER: Silverback Films and BBC Earth in rise again. Dinosaurs, a sabre-tooth tiger, giant Chattanooga, Tennessee association with Giant Screen Films birds and monster reptiles escape their display DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films and BBC Earth cases, shake off the dust and explore the CONTACT: Yasmine Garcia, [email protected] museum, by means of stunning special effects. SEPTEMBER 24 Incredible Predators deconstructs the world of And far from being just fantasy, everything in Dome Day Museum Alive 3D is firmly rooted in the latest major predators as never before, taking an science, through a unique collaboration between McWane Science Center intimate look at the remarkable strategies they Birmingham, Alabama use to succeed. Advanced filming techniques leading paleontologists and award-winning CGI expose the planet’s top predators in artists. Audiences will be treated to a thrilling, extraordinary footage, putting the audience spectacular film that both educates and right beside them as they hunt—on land, under entertains—because as the lights go down, the the sea or in the air. Far from a film about the past comes roaring back to life!
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