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Wednesday, September 27: Conference Day 2 Thursday, September 20: Pre-conference Day COMING SOON TIME EVENT LOCATION 8:00 am - 8:00 pm Registration and Information Westin: Lobby 9 8:00 am - 10:45 am Board Meeting (working breakfast) Westin: River Room 1 0 2 Committee Meetings Westin 11:00 am - 12:45 pm • Event Planning • River H • Member Services • Valley C R

Committee Meetings Westin A 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm • Technical • Valley M • Industry Development • River 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm Film Rehearsals Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Giant Screen 101 — All are welcome! Westin: Portman Ballroom 9 1

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm 3D Film Interest Group (by invitation only) Westin: River 0 2

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Distributors’ Interest Group (by invitation only) Westin: Valley G N First Timers’ and New Members’ Reception Westin: Roy McDonald Junior I

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm R (by invitation only) Ballroom P

Evening on your own S

Friday, September 21: Conference Day 1 TIME EVENT LOCATION 9

Breakfast on your own 1 0 2

7:30 am - 8:00 am Walk to Tennessee Aquarium IMAX Theater L

8:00 am - 4:00 pm Registration and Information Tennessee Aquarium IMAX L A

8:00 am - 8:45 am Projects in Development Tennessee Aquarium IMAX F 8:45 am - 9:30 am Film 1: Australia’s Great Wild North (2D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 9:30 am - 10:15 am Film 2: Great Barrier Reef (3D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 10:15 am - 10:30 am Break 10:30 am - 11:15 am Film 3: Mountain Quest (2D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 0

11:15 am - 12:00 pm Film 4: Volcanoes (3D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 2 0

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch on your own 2 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Awards rehearsal (by invitation only) Westin: Portman Ballroom 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm Film 5: In Saturn’s Rings (2D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm Film 6: America’s Musical Journey (3D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 3:00 pm - 5:15 pm Films in Production Tennessee Aquarium IMAX ALSO AVAILABLE FROM COSMIC PICTURE: 5:15 pm Walk to Westin THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FILM LIBRARY 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm GSCA Achievement Awards, sponsored by IMAX Westin: Portman Ballroom

7:15 pm - 9:00 pm GSCA Achievement Awards Reception, Westin: Portman Ballroom and Antonietta Monteleone John Wickstrom sponsored by IMAX outdoor terrace TO BOOK, [email protected] [email protected] CONTACT 914-617-8032 913-648-5886 6 7 CONFERENCE

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Saturday, September 22: Conference Day 2 Sunday, September 23: Conference Day 3 (continued) TIME EVENT LOCATION TIME EVENT LOCATION Breakfast on your own 9:45 am - 10:30 am Film 14: Pandas (3D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX

8:30 am - 12:30 pm Registration and Information Westin: Lobby 10:30 am - 10:45 am Break

Professional Development Session: Blockbusters! 10:45 am - 11:30 am Film 15: The Story of Earth (3D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 9:00 am - 10:15 am Enhancing the Fundamentals of Programming, Westin: Portman Ballroom Marketing, and Sponsorship for Maximum Success 11:30 am - 12:00 pm Film 16: Hurricane (3D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX

10:15 am - 10:30 am Break 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm Film 17: Apollo 11: First Steps (rough/fine cut) (2D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 12:45 pm - 1:30 pm Film 18: Cuba (2D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX Professional Development Session: 10:30 am - 11:45 am Westin: Portman Ballroom Social Media Audit: A Case Study 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Lunch on your own and return to Westin

11:45 am - 1:00 pm Member meeting and lunch Westin: Portman Ballroom 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm Registration and information Westin: Lobby

1:00 pm Walk to Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm Trade show with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres Westin: Portman Ballroom

1:30 pm - 7:00 pm Registration and Information Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Dinner on your own

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Technical Session Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm GSCA Board Meeting Westin: River Room

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Break Songbirds South Stage, 9:30 pm - 12:30 am Distributor Party (all attendees are welcome) 35 Station Street 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm Film 7: Turtle Odyssey (3D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX Monday, September 24: Dome Day 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Film 8: Planet Power (3D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX TIME EVENT LOCATION 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm Break 7:30 am Buses depart for McWane Science Center Leave from Westin lobby 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm Film 9: Backyard Wilderness (3D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX Digital Dome Demo by Evans & Sutherland and 9:00 am - 10:30 am McWane Science Center 5:45 pm - 6:30 pm Film 10: Oceans: Our Blue Planet (3D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX Christie

6:30 pm - 7:15 pm Film 11: Great Bear Rainforest (rough/fine cut) (2D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 10:45 am - 11:30 am Film 1: digital: Planet Power McWane Science Center

7:15 pm - 7:30 pm Superpower Dogs special presentation Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 11:30 am - 12:15 pm Film 2: digital: In Saturn’s Rings McWane Science Center

Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Film 3: digital: Volcanoes McWane Science Center 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Reception sponsored by Cosmic Picture Great Hall McWane, Level 3, Drayton Nabers 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Evening on your own Special Events Center 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Film 4: 15/70: Australia’s Great Wild North McWane Science Center Sunday, September 23: Conference Day 3 TIME EVENT LOCATION 2:45 pm - 3:25 pm Film 5: 15/70: Great Barrier Reef McWane Science Center

Breakfast on your own 3:35 pm - 4:25 pm Film 6: 15/70: Backyard Wilderness McWane Science Center

7:30 am Walk to Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 4:25 pm - 5:15 pm Film 7: 15/70: Pandas McWane Science Center

8:00 am - 1:30 pm Registration and Information Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 5:15 pm - 6:05 pm Film 8: 15/70: Oceans: Our Blue Planet McWane Science Center

8:30 am - 9:00 am Film 12: Touch the Stars (rough/fine cut) (3D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 6:05 pm - 6:55 pm Film 9: 15/70: America’s Musical Journey McWane Science Center

9:00 am - 9:45 am Film 13: Hidden Pacific (rough/fine cut) (2D) Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 6:55 pm - 7:45 pm Film 10: 15/70: The Story of Earth McWane Science Center

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AMERICA’S MUSICAL APOLLO 11: DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Backyard Wilderness will astound and JOURNEY FIRST STEPS Laser, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- entertain viewers with the unexpected PRESENTATION: Tennessee Rough/fine cut customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital wonders of nature that are right under Aquarium: 3D; Dome Day PRESENTATION: LENGTH: 41:10 and 25:00 our noses: in our own backyards. at McWane Science Tennessee Aquarium: PRODUCER: Wild Pacific Media and Spanning a seasonal year around a Center: 15/70 2D Definition Films suburban home, the film displays a DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications RELEASE: February 16, 2018 RELEASE: Spring 2019 stunning array of unique wildlife images FORMATS: 2D and 3D, CONTACT: Mark Kresser, FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, and behavior. Captured by cameras 15/70, DCI-compliant [email protected] DCI-compliant Digital, mounted inside dens and nests, and Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, WEB: k2communications.com IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, moving along the forest floor and pond IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- Few places on earth remain as wild and bottom, we reveal the lives of its Fulldome Digital customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital pristine as the Top End of Australia. It is LENGTH: 39:57 inhabitants in rare and breathtaking LENGTH: 40:00 a land that time forgot. A place with PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray intimacy. We follow Katie, a young girl, PRODUCER: Statement Pictures some of the richest wetlands and oldest Freeman Films and her modern family living next to DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined rainforests where ancient people lived DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films the woods who are blind to the real-life CONTACT: Tom Petersen, in harmony with this wild land and her CONTACT: Patty Collins, [email protected] spectacle around them, absorbed by an [email protected] beasts. The largest dinosaurs called this array of electronic devices in their busy Timed for release around the 50th WEB: americasmusicaljourney.com land home and left their foot prints in lives. Katie gradually discovers the anniversary of the first lunar landing, these ancient rocks, and one of their America’s Musical Journey celebrates the intricate secrets that nature has hidden Apollo 11: First Steps gives a thrilling, deadly relatives still lives there today. unique diversity of cultures and creative so close to her front door and we direct-cinema experience of NASA’s Come on this epic scientific adventure risk-taking that characterize America, as experience the joy she finds in her historic Apollo 11 mission. With the with Tommy, our native Aboriginal guide, told through the story of its music. interactions with this new world. The assistance of NASA, National Archives, as we venture through some of the Follow Grammy Award®-nominated film reminds us that Wi-Fi is not the and a global team of researchers, the world’s most beautiful landscapes, and singer/songwriter Aloe Blacc as he only connection that matters and that, filmmakers have unearthed a treasure travel deep into saltwater crocodile traces the roots of America’s music and sometimes in ordinary places, you can trove of never-before-seen footage and country. The film is not currently available follows the footsteps of Louis Armstrong uncover extraordinary things that could audio recordings to reconstruct the in 15/70 3D, but plans will be made for it through the colorful locales where transform you forever. You just need to mission in astonishing detail. Told in the future. American music was born. Visiting cities step outside. primarily with archival materials, the film such as New Orleans, Chicago, New York, puts audiences back in 1969 when the WI-FI IS NOT THE ONLY CONNECTION THAT MATTERS BACKYARD Nashville, Memphis, Miami, and more, CUBA world united to watch man’s first steps WILDERNESS audiences will experience paddle- PRESENTATION: on the moon. From the Emmy® Award- PRESENTATION: Tennessee Tennessee Aquarium: 2D wheeling up the Mississippi Delta, flash Aquarium: 3D; Dome Day winning filmmakers ofDinosaur 13 in RELEASE: 2019 mob dancing in Chicago, and skydiving at McWane Science partnership with CNN Films, Apollo 11: FORMATS: 2D and 3D, with Elvis impersonators in scenes shot Center: 15/70 First Steps will premiere in Spring 2019. 15/70, DCI-compliant exclusively for the giant screen. Along RELEASE: March 21, 2018 Digital, DCI-compliant the way, they’ll discover the unique AUSTRALIA’S FORMATS: 2D and 3D, Laser, IMAX Digital, collision of cultures that gave birth to GREAT WILD DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- America’s music, culminating in a NORTH DCI-compliant Laser, customized 15/70 IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- one-of-a-kind blend of sound, culture PRESENTATION: LENGTH: 20:00 and 40:00 (40:00 at and innovation unlike anywhere else in Tennessee Aquarium: customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital conference) LENGTH: 42:59 (short version also available) the world. A MacGillivray Freeman film 2D; Dome Day at PRODUCER: Golden Gate 3D in association PRODUCER: Arise Media & Archipelago Films produced in association with Brand McWane Science with BBC Earth and Giant Screen Films DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films USA and presented by Expedia, and Center: 15/70 DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films and CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, [email protected] RELEASE: June 28, 2018 BBC Earth Air Canada. WEB: backyardwildernessfilm.com FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected]

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Cuba tells the powerful story of a land night as Great Barrier Reef captures the HIDDEN PACIFIC of one of the most devastating natural preserved in time yet poised today on natural beauty and exquisite strangeness Rough/fine cut events on our planet: the Atlantic the cusp of dramatic change. Through of this awesome and vibrant living world. PRESENTATION: Hurricane. Our protagonist is both the eyes of Cuban artists, historians, and A December Media film produced in Tennessee Aquarium: shatteringly destructive and vital to marine biologists, audiences will have a association with Slattery Family Trust, 2D life on earth. A mere breeze at its rare opportunity to explore this amazing Biopixel, Soundfirm, Film Victoria, and RELEASE: 2019 conception, as it sweeps over the African country at a pivotal moment in its history. Screen Queensland and distributed by FORMATS: 2D and 3D, Sahel it becomes a life-giving monsoon, Produced in association with the Giant MacGillivray Freeman Films. 15/70, DCI-compliant before setting out across the Atlantic as a Dome Theater Consortium and BBC Earth. Digital, DCI-compliant deepening depression. The hurricane is GREAT BEAR Laser, IMAX Digital, the film’s main character. The supporting GREAT BARRIER RAINFOREST IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 cast—the men, women, plants, and LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 (40:00 at REEF Rough/fine cut animals that it encounters on its journey conference) PRESENTATION: PRESENTATION: and affects in some way, for better or for Tennessee Aquarium: Tennessee Aquarium: 2D PRODUCER: Tandem Stills + Motion and Giant Screen Films worse. Serene and exquisitely beautiful 3D; Dome Day at RELEASE: February 2019 DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films from space, at ground level in the face of McWane Science FORMATS: 2D and 3D, Center: 15/70 CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] the screaming wind, Hurricane is nothing 15/70, DCI-compliant less than terrifying. RELEASE: July 1, 2018 Digital, DCI-compliant Hidden Pacific will bring the Pacific FORMATS: 2D and 3D, Laser, IMAX Digital, Ocean’s protected and remote national IN SATURN’S RINGS 15/70, DCI-compliant IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, wildlife refuge islands and marine national Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, PRESENTATION: Fulldome Digital monuments to giant screen cinemas. The Tennessee Aquarium: IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, LENGTH: 40:00 film captures the beauty of these emerald 2D; Dome Day at Fulldome Digital PRODUCER: Spirit Bear Entertainment islets, the conservation efforts to restore McWane Science LENGTH: 40:00 DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films their ecosystems, and the diversity of life Center: Digital PRODUCER: December Media CONTACT: Patty Collins, RELEASE: May 4, 2018 DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films on both land and reef. Produced in [email protected] FORMATS: 2D, DCI- CONTACT: Patty Collins, association with Tandem Stills + Motion WEB: greatbearrainforestfilm.com compliant Digital, [email protected] and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Filmmakers Ian McAllister and Jeff Turner DCI-compliant Laser, WEB: greatbarrierreefmovie.com and Executive Producers Kyle Washington HURRICANE IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Fulldome Digital No structure built by living creatures and Byron Horner of Spirit Bear PRESENTATION: Tennessee LENGTH: 39:30 compares to the size and majesty of the Entertainment are partnering with Aquarium: 3D PRODUCER: SV2 Studios Great Barrier Reef—spanning more than MacGillivray Freeman Films to distribute RELEASE: 2017 DISTRIBUTOR: BIG & Digital 1,400 miles off the coast of Australia and a beautiful giant screen film about one of FORMATS: 3D, DCI- CONTACT: Tina Ratterman, home to countless unique species of the rarest animals on Earth—the fabled compliant Digital, [email protected] WEB: insaturnsrings.com aquatic life. Narrated by acclaimed all-white Spirit Bear. These remarkable DCI-compliant Laser, Australian actor Eric Bana, Great Barrier creatures live in the lush temperate IMAX Digital, IMAX Narrated by LeVar Burton, In Saturn’s Laser, Fulldome Digital Reef explores the awe of this natural rainforests of British Columbia on Canada’s Rings is a grand tour of the universe LENGTH: 39:51 and 22:21 environment and introduces the visionaries West Coast, where they hold almost mythic starring Saturn. 7.5 million real images (22:21 at conference) and “citizen scientists” who help us better status among the region’s indigenous images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission PRODUCER: Ouragan Films understand and protect the reef. Grab to Saturn, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, people. Shot exclusively for the giant screen, DISTRIBUTOR: nWave Pictures Distribution your mask and snorkel and join an Hubble Telescope and Milky Way time Great Bear Rainforest will offer a remarkable CONTACT: Janine S. Baker, Goedele Gillis, unforgettable adventure with majestic journey into one of the planet’s most [email protected] lapses are brought to life in a ground- manta rays and sea turtles, witness the spectacular wildernesses—a land of wolves, WEB: hurricane.nwave.com breaking and immersive journey from the birth of baby seahorses, participate in a earliest images after the Big Bang to the grizzly bears, humpback whales, sea lions, This is the true story of a coral watch expedition, and discover the final photographs Cassini took before sea otters, and others—as it explores the 15,000-kilometre journey in the footsteps exotic splendor of fluorescent corals at secret world of the Spirit Bear. plunging into Saturn’s clouds. In Saturn’s

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Rings is, like space exploration itself, a engineering of climbing gear and skis, predators. As we journey through our PLANET POWER journey of the heart, mind and spirit that and the aeronautical effects of a oceans, we share these extraordinary PRESENTATION: Tennessee moves audiences with awe-inspiring wingsuit, are seamlessly integrated with discoveries and uncover a spectacular Aquarium: 3D; Dome Day images and powerful music. A 25-minute dramatic visuals and action. The film is world of life beneath the waves. at McWane Science film will be released in Fall/Winter for narrated by Willem Dafoe. Center: Digital 4K/8K Digital Flat and Fulldome PANDAS RELEASE: March 22, 2018 Theaters in DCI-Compliant and IMAX OCEANS: OUR PRESENTATION: Tennessee FORMATS: 3D, DCI- compliant Digital, Digital/Laser formats. BLUE PLANET Aquarium: 3D; Dome Day PRESENTATION: Tennessee at McWane Science DCI-compliant Laser, MOUNTAIN QUEST Aquarium: 3D; Dome Day Center: 15/70 IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Fulldome Digital PRESENTATION: Tennessee at McWane Science RELEASE: April 6, 2018 Aquarium: 2D Center: 15/70 FORMATS: 2D and 3D, LENGTH: 40:42 and 20:31 (40:42 to screen

AN ADRENALINE-LACED at conference) GIANT SCREEN ADVENTURE RELEASE: June 18, 2018 RELEASE: March 16, 2018 15/70, IMAX Digital,

NARRATED BY WILLEM DAFOE PRODUCER: N3D Land Films FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, IMAX Laser, Dome- DCI-compliant Digital, 15/70, DCI-compliant customized 15/70 DISTRIBUTOR: nWave Pictures Distribution DCI-compliant Laser, Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, LENGTH: 41:41 CONTACT: Janine S. Baker, Goedele Gillis, IMAX Digital, IMAX IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation [email protected] WEB: AND PRESENT MUSIC BY WORDS BY PRINCIPAL CINEMATOGRAPHY planetpower-thefilm.com AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA STRANGER THAN FICTION FILMS “MOUNTAIN” RICHARD TOGNETTI ROBERT MACFARLANE RENAN OZTURK CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected], NARRATED BY WILLEM DAFOE EDITORS CHRISTIAN GAZAL and SCOTT GRAY ASE SOUND DESIGN DAVID WHITE IN ASSOCIATION WITH CAMP 4 COLLECTIVE and SHERPAS CINEMA Fulldome Digital EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS PAUL WIEGARD DAVID GROSS STEPHEN BOYLE MARTYN MYER AO PRODUCED BY JENNIFER PEEDOM and JO-ANNE McGOWAN WRITTEN and DIRECTED BY JENNIFER PEEDOM Exempt from classification DEFINITION FILMS Laser, Fulldome Digital © 2017 Stranger Than Fiction Films Pty Ltd and Australian Chamber Orchestra Pty Ltd LENGTH: 38.21 LENGTH: 41:49 and 20:00 (41:49 at Doris Babiera, [email protected] Planet Power explores the history of PRODUCER: Stranger Than Fiction Films conference) WEB: pandas.imax.com electricity—from the first spark created DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications PRODUCER: BBC Earth and OceanX Media Pandas, an IMAX® original film for the by man’s hand to today’s industrial CONTACT: Mark Kresser, DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films and whole family, is a story of hope, power plants. We meet scientists who [email protected] BBC Earth friendship and survival. At China’s changed the world, like Faraday, CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] A lone climber, suspended hundreds of Chengdu Panda Base, the scientist Franklin, and Tesla, and we glimpse the WEB: bbcearth.com/oceans feet in the air, struggles to find the next leading a successful captive breeding future as Solar Impulse becomes the first finger hold, defining progress in inches. Oceans: Our Blue Planet takes us on a program is ready to take a bold new plane to complete a round-the-world The dramatic visuals immerse us in a global odyssey to discover the largest step. Inspired by the work of a black bear flight powered only by the sun. With a gripping contest of human determination and least explored habitat on earth. rehabilitator in New Hampshire, a team mix of chalk animation, CGI, archival versus the reality of gravity’s potent grip. New ocean science and technology of U.S. and Chinese scientists collaborate footage, and spectacular aerials, the film Mountain Quest explores the precarious has allowed us to go further into the on an innovative project to release also explores the challenges ahead: how relationship of humanity’s quest to unknown than we ever thought possible. captive-born pandas into the wild—using to meet the growing energy needs of scale some of the world’s highest places, From the coastal shallows to deeper, methods never previously tried with our industrialized world, while also while also revealing the scientific and more mysterious worlds, we reveal the pandas. Captured with IMAX® Cameras, protecting the health of our planet. technological advances that have untold stories of the oceans’ most the film follows the journey of a young enabled us to conquer these peaks, astonishing creatures. Dolphins leap for cub named Qian Qian as she leaves the exposing the heartbeat of the human joy through the waves as we begin our comfort of the panda base behind and soul. A tapestry of jaw-dropping action, journey into the blue. Our first stop is the prepares for a life-changing journey combined with rich STEM content. For coral reefs, where we meet fascinating into the misty mountains of Sichuan. example, physics of the real world—how characters like the ingenious tusk fish Pandas is directed by David Douglas climbing is a tug-of-war between friction that uses a tool to open its food. In the and Drew Fellman, the filmmakers and gravity, while skiing involves the great forests of the sea, we find a behind Born To Be Wild and Island Of same battle of forces in reverse. cunning octopus who shields herself in Lemurs: Madagascar. Fellman wrote Educational insights about the an armoury of shells to hide from and produced, with Douglas serving as director of photography.

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THE STORY OF CONTACT: Tina Ratterman, Sea turtles are some of Earth’s most IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- EARTH [email protected] ancient and majestic creatures. For customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital PRESENTATION Tennessee WEB: touchthestarsmovie.com over 100 million years, they have LENGTH: 42:00 Aquarium: 3D; Dome Touch the Stars centers on mankind’s traversed the seas, enduring mass PRODUCER: Digital Crossing Films Day at McWane Science probes used in exploration of our solar extinctions and playing critical roles in DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, Center: 15/70 system and the galaxy beyond. The film maintaining food webs. But now they RELEASE: May 2018 [email protected] traces the path to space through the face a new threat—humans. It’s time we FORMATS: 2D & 3D, WEB: volcanoesthemovie.com history of NASA’s probes, orbiters, and learned more about these remarkable 15/70, DCI-compliant reptiles. Academy Award winner and Volcanoes – The Fires of Creation is a Digital, IMAX Digital, landers, from the heart of our solar system to the surface of the other turtle conservation champion Russell tale of science, culture, and thrilling IMAX Laser, D3D Digital Dome adventure. Earth is a planet born of fire. LENGTH: 41:00 and 23:00 (41:00 at planets and moons, to the grand tour Crowe narrates the captivating tale For billions of years, volcanoes have conference) of the Voyager spacecraft through the of Bunji, a green sea turtle. From the helped create the world we know. From PRODUCER: December Media outer planets and beyond. Created with moment her fragile egg cracks below Distributor: December Media Distribution the latest imagery and scientific data, the warm sands of an Australian beach, the continents to the air we breathe CONTACT: Mark Bretherton, Touch the Stars uses inspiring real we join Bunji as she travels through the and even life itself, all have their origins [email protected] footage and three-dimensional vistas of Great Barrier Reef and thousands of in fire. These processes have created WEB: thestoryofearth.film our solar system and interstellar space miles into open ocean. After decades, extraordinary ecosystems and wildlife Born from dying stars, it was sculpted to transport audiences to planets and she will migrate with mysterious habitats. With over 500 active by violent collisions in space. Yet, in an distant stars alongside these intrepid precision back to the very same beach volcanoes, the Earth is bursting at epic journey, this hostile ball of molten robot explorers. Touch the Stars will be where she was born and lay the eggs the seams with these forces of mass rock transformed itself into a nurturing released in stunning 8K resolution. We that are the foundation for the next construction. The story of volcanoes is environment. From it emerged forms are presenting the 25-minute version generation. With Bunji as our guide, the story of the planet’s creation, and of life, none of which have been found at the conference but will release both we will meet an astonishing range of the story of us. With explorer Carsten anywhere else in the universe. That 40-minute and 25-minute versions. strange and compelling creatures and Peter, dodge boulders at the edge of planet is not millions of light years witness some really wild encounters. an active volcano in Indonesia, descend away either. You are standing on it TURTLE ODYSSEY All have been filmed in stunning 3D, so to a lava lake in Vanuatu and visit the right now. It is Earth. PRESENTATION: you will feel truly immersed amongst incredible mineral deposit fields in Tennessee Aquarium: massive manta rays, breaching whales, Ethiopia. Travel across the globe to TOUCH THE STARS 3D and vibrant clownfish. Sea turtles see the archeological ghost town of Rough/fine cut RELEASE: Summer 2018 remind us just how interconnected we Pompeii and witness the devastating FORMATS: 2D and 3D, PRESENTATION: all are, and audiences will be moved to effects of the recent Kilauea eruption in DCI-compliant Digital, Tennessee Aquarium: cherish these beautiful and vulnerable Hawaii. Audiences will be on the edge 3D DCI-compliant Laser, of their seats as they discover molten IMAX Digital, IMAX animals even more. RELEASE: November worlds and exploding craters in this Laser, Dome- 2018 VOLCANOES adrenaline-filled, immersive experience customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital FORMATS: 3D, 15/70, PRESENTATION: Tennessee that only IMAX®/Giant Screen films LENGTH: 42:00 DCI-compliant Digital, Aquarium: 3D; Dome Day PRODUCER: Definition Films can provide. DCI-compliant Laser, at McWane Science DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- Center: Digital CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital RELEASE: Fall 2018 [email protected] LENGTH: 25:00 and 40:00 (25:00 at FORMATS: 2D and 3D, WEB: turtleodysseyfilm.com conference) DCI-compliant Digital, PRODUCER: Afterglow Studios DCI-compliant Laser, DISTRIBUTOR: BIG & Digital

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ANCIENT CAVES mystery waiting to be unlocked by drier than any other landmass on Earth, BACK FROM THE BRINK Presented in 2D modern archaeologists, scientists, and and although it is thousands of miles Presented in 2D RELEASE: Fall 2019 explorers. Following an epic spree of away, what happens here affects every RELEASE: Fall 2019 FORMATS: 2D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, religious building whose scale and single one of us. Temperatures can FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital ambition rivals the pyramids of Egypt, plummet to -70C, freezing its ocean Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, LENGTH: 45:00 Angkor is the scene of one of the waters, yet even in this remote, hostile IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, PRODUCER: Oceanic Research Group, Inc. greatest vanishing acts of all time. The habitat there is an abundance of life and Fulldome Digital DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films Khmer kingdom lasted from the 9th to beauty. Many creatures thrive above and LENGTH: 40:00 CONTACT: Patricia Collins, PRODUCER: Roam Pictures and Sean Casey the 15th centuries and at its height beneath the ice, but exactly how do they [email protected] DISTRIBUTOR: Cosmic Picture Distribution dominated a large swathe of South-East survive in such an extreme environment? Dr. Gina Moseley is a scientist on a CONTACT: Antonietta Monteleone, Asia from Myanmar to the west to To answer that question, we will follow [email protected] mission as she travels the world exploring Vietnam in the East. As many as one the story of a year in Antarctica, because vast underground worlds in her quest to million people lived in Angkor, the more than anywhere else on our planet, Back from the Brink, from award-winning unlock the secrets of the Earth’s ancient capital, which sprawled across an area life here is governed by the seasons. giant screen director Sean Casey, is an climate in the most unlikely places: caves. the size of New York’s five boroughs, Only then can we discover how animals immersive film that will explore extraordinary Her need for underwater samples leads making it the most extensive urban manage to survive in this hostile but true stories of animals rescued from the brink her to world-renowned cave diver Brian complex of the pre-industrial world. beautiful land—Earth’s last great of extinction. Audiences will meet California’s Kakuk. Brian can go where Gina can’t, By the late 16th century, the once wilderness. endearing Channel Island Fox, the smallest and together they can reach places very resplendent capital of the empire, with canid in the world, imperiled by the few humans will ever go. Ancient Caves its thousands of elaborate temples and ASTEROID IMPACT introduction of Golden Eagles to their brings science and adventure together as religious monuments, was being overrun Presented in 2D only habitat. We will witness the stunning the team embarks on an expedition to by the surrounding jungles. Many experts RELEASE: Fall 2019 migration of the Christmas Island Red some of the world’s most extreme caves, have attempted to provide answers, and FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, Crabs, thinned dangerously by the Crazy IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 both above and below the water, to learn theories abound. 1300 carved inscriptions Ant invasion. And, finally, we journey to LENGTH: 40:00 how fast the climate can change, and survive on temple doorjambs but the Yunnan, China, to find the enigmatic PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation how it has affected human civilization. Khmer people of Angkor left not a single Golden Monkey, high on the most- Ancient Caves is being shot in dome- CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected], endangered primates list, living in one of word explaining their kingdom’s collapse. Doris Babiera, [email protected] native format. Flat screen version will This will be a visually stunning film—an the most biodiverse and remote regions will reveal the origins of be available, and possible 3D release. epic adventure where science, mystery Asteroid Impact of the world. Back from the Brink, with asteroids and the effects of previous and ancient civilization intersect. real and inspiring conservation stories, ANGKOR: THE LOST EMPIRE Earth impacts. Delve into how these will renew your hope that our threatened OF CAMBODIA ANTARCTICA: A YEAR OF celestial bodies have shaped life on planet and all its inhabitants can be saved. Presented in 2D DISCOVERY primitive Earth and the threat they pose RELEASE: March 2019 Presented in 2D to our planet today. Learn how we COOL CITIES FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant RELEASE: 2020 monitor them in order to stay out of their Presented in 2D Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, deadly path. Through the eyes of RELEASE: Late 2019 IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, IMAX scientists tasked with keeping watch FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Fulldome Digital Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 over our planet, see the devastating Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, LENGTH: 40:00 IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 effects of a hypothetical asteroid impact, PRODUCER: Helio Projects Asia, Definition Films Fulldome Digital PRODUCER: BBC Studios portrayed on a grand scale as never seen DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications LENGTH: 40:00 DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth before. The ways we might prevent a CONTACT: Mark Kresser, CONTACT: Jonathan Williams, PRODUCER: Wild Pacific Media and Definition [email protected] cosmic collision are also explored. This Films [email protected] new IMAX documentary will make clear WEB: k2communications.com WEB: bbcearth.com DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications it’s not a question of if an asteroid will A civilization that rose to become the CONTACT: Mark Kresser, Antarctica is the most extreme continent strike our planet again, but when. [email protected] envy of the world, only to disappear—a on our planet—higher, colder, and even WEB: k2communications.com

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Cool Cities is an immersive global efforts to improve the local environment Ireland invites worldwide giant screen Genius, François Bertrand, and for the journey that explores how science and around the watershed ultimately improve audiences on an extraordinary and 500th anniversary of Leonardo da technology together with a cultural the health of the Bay and how these joyful film adventure. Premiering in Vinci’s death, with astonishing visual renaissance are opening the door to a lessons can be applied to watersheds 2020, the Emerald Isle film celebrates effects da Vinci’s works will be brought sustainable future in many of the world’s around the world. Ireland’s rich history, land and seascapes, to the giant screen for the first time. most iconic mega-cities. The film will language, arts and music. A 40-minute The film will bring to life the breadth offer a practical vision for more livable FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES showcase of the island nation’s natural and depth of da Vinci’s genius with cities that all people of all continents OF GRINDEWALD beauty, Ireland also reaches for the soul an artistic view of his drawings and can connect with and be part of. We will Presented in 2D of a country. Amid awe-inspiring sketches, his research on human showcase the human stories and real RELEASE: November 16, 2018 locations such as Giant’s Causeway, anatomy and his engineering projects. FORMATS: 2D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser solutions that provide hope for a planet Skellig Michael, and the Cliffs of Moher, The work of da Vinci would LENGTH: TBD that cannot only survive, but thrive for the film follows Irish writer Manchán revolutionize the world forever. PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. countless generations to come. Magan on his quest to reconnect Irish CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] people from around the world with their MFF’S NEW ADVENTURE FILM EXPEDITION CHESAPEAKE Magizoologist Newt Scamander joins land, language, and stories. Premier Presented in 2D Presented in 2D forces with young Albus Dumbledore to violinist Patricia Treacey and four of her RELEASE: February 2020 RELEASE: March 20, 2019 prevent the devious Gellert Grindelwald teen orchestra students join Manchán to FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, FORMATS: 2D, DCI-compliant Digital from raising pure-blood wizards to rule lend an even greater insight into Irish LENGTH: 42:00 IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, over all non-magical beings. traditions and culture through the lens PRODUCER: Whitaker Center Productions, Fulldome Digital of music. Along the way they’ll also Inc., in association with Via Studios Global FIRST MAN LENGTH: 40:00 meet scientists studying basking sharks DISTRIBUTOR: Cosmic Picture Presented in 2D PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray CONTACT: Antonietta Monteleone, RELEASE: October 12, 2018 and the adorable puffins of Skellig. Freeman Films [email protected] FORMATS: 2D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser From Dublin to Belfast, Kilkenny, CONTACT: Patricia Collins, WEB: expeditionchesapeake.org LENGTH: TBD Blarney Castle, and beyond, audiences [email protected] will discover why they love Ireland. Imagine an expanse of 64,000 square PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Universal Pictures A journey through time and place, this CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] miles encompassing portions of six LEONARDO DA VINCI giant screen film will follow the trails First Man is an upcoming American states and filled with the stunning Presented in 2D made on land and sea that showcase biographical adventure space film natural beauty of the largest estuary RELEASE: 2019 our quest to explore our world. The in North America. This is Expedition directed by Damien Chazelle based on FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant film follows an adventurous Alaskan Chesapeake, A Journey of Discovery, the true story of NASA’s mission to land Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, pilot and a space station astronaut, both and is presented for the first time on the a man on the moon, focusing on Neil IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Native Americans who share a passion giant screen. The film tells the story of Armstrong and the years 1961–1969. Fulldome Digital to inspire the next generation to seek the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed LENGTH: 40:00 new experiences, discover math and through the lives of our neighbors—both IRELAND PRODUCER: Camera Lucida Productions science, and learn from history and human and animal—who share this Presented in 2D DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films other cultures. They’ll take audiences RELEASE: 2020 national treasure. Exploring with our CONTACT: Patricia Collins, to spectacular locations, ancient FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant expedition leader, celebrity naturalist [email protected] homelands, hidden treasures and scenic Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, Camera Lucida and MacGillivray byways, even into space. As they honor Jeff Corwin, we discover the intricate IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, web of relationships among people, Fulldome Digital Freeman Films are once again joining the past and reach toward the future, plants, animals, land, and our most LENGTH: 40:00 forces to produce a giant screen film on the film connects audiences to the critical natural resource, water. We also PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray the ultimate renaissance man–Leonardo trailblazer in us all. discover the challenges facing the Bay Freeman Films da Vinci. From the award-winning are similar to threats to other large CONTACT: Patricia Collins, Director of Van Gogh: Brush with estuaries. We see how seemingly small [email protected]

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OUT OF BOUNDS take you behind the scenes to learn how SECRETS OF THE SANDS archaeology, we’ll follow these people Presented in 3D physics, engineering, the body, and brain Presented in 2D through the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron RELEASE: Fall 2019 work together with the car in the fight for RELEASE: Spring 2019 Age, and beyond, witnessing the FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant every last thousandth of a second. The FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, incredible innovations that marked Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, film will release with a custom pop-up DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, IMAX humans’ earliest progress through IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, exhibit allowing the audience to put the Laser history. From creating tools from Fulldome Digital same concepts into practice themselves. LENGTH: 40:00 copper and taming wild animals, LENGTH: 40:00 An extensive STEM-based educational PRODUCER: Atlantic Productions to engineering ancient cities and PRODUCER: Wild Pacific Media and Definition DISTRIBUTOR: Serengeti Entertainment outreach program is currently in man-made oases in the desert, this Films CONTACT: Melissa Williams, development to further expand upon is a universal story of humanity—the DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications [email protected] the film’s platform and continue the ultimate tale of triumph over adversity. CONTACT: Mark Kresser, Secrets of the Sands tells the tale of how [email protected] conversation beyond the theater. an ancient people gained a remarkable SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE WEB: k2communications.com SEA LION: LIFE BY A WHISKER mastery over one of the most Presented in 3D Follow Australian Olympic gold medalist Presented in 2D inhospitable landscapes on the planet. RELEASE: April 2019 Torah Bright as she journeys along the RELEASE: Summer 2019 This is a captivating human story that FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant great American Cordillera, the world’s FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant stretches back over 125,000 years. With Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, longest chain of mountain ranges extending Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, breathtaking animations, CGI IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, from Antarctica all the way to Alaska. IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, reconstructions, and present-day Fulldome Digital On the journey, Torah will encounter Fulldome Digital world-class snow athletes, scientists, and LENGTH: 40:00 environmentalists. Discover the crucial PRODUCER: Definition Films role mountains play in our ecosystem and DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced everyday life, while witnessing the most CONTACT: David Gross, spectacular snowboard and ski action [email protected] ever brought to the giant screen! Between a jagged cliff face and a roaring ocean, lives a colony of Australian Sea SCIENCE OF SPEED Lions. In an environment equally as harsh Presented in 2D as it is beautiful, be immersed in a classic RELEASE: Spring 2021 coming of age tale guided by one of FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, Australia’s most unique, intelligent, and DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, IMAX playful animals. Take an intimate journey Laser, Fulldome Digital inside the colony where a life of great LENGTH: 40:00 intimacy, tenderness, and clumsiness, PRODUCER: Elwha Films must often give way to a life of great DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced sacrifice and bravery. Exposed to the CONTACT: Alex Charpentier, [email protected] elements, life here can be brutal and more dramatic than any scripted drama. The is science documentary Science of Speed film will take audiences straight into the with a racing soul, bringing you to 235 heart of one little family’s, big adventure. mph while showcasing STEM principles Exploring not only their connection to at work in the real world. Using relatable each other, but also to their environment. science, great personalities, and world- As one of the worlds most endangered class CGI, it brings the thrill of chasing marine mammals, it’s a never-before-seen the winning edge to life. INDYCAR and struggle for survival, set against an team Penske (17-time INDY 500 winners) astonishing and untouched wilderness.

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LENGTH: 40:00 alternate ending, depending on the Californian surf legend helping people WINGSUIT FLYERS PRODUCER: The Stephen Low Company answer selected by the audience. This with special needs; and the Bloodhound Presented in 3D DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications anthology film is also customizable for brothers, Tipper and Tony, who are RELEASE: Fall 2018 CONTACT: Mark Kresser, different theater needs, and available in leading the fight to save endangered FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70,DCI-compliant [email protected] shorter versions, in custom arrangements, species in Africa. As we discover the Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, WEB: k2communications.com or as individual episodes. The film’s incredible abilities of dogs and the IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, We are at the beginning of a period release is also accompanied with a astonishing science behind their Fulldome Digital of unprecedented technological strong peripheral collection of superpowers, we’ll never look at our LENGTH: 40:00 PRODUCER: Grand Schema advancement, catalyzing a new age of multimedia tie-ins, including books, best friends the same way again! DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications scientific discovery. Travel with us on merchandise and an app, also available CONTACT: Mark Kresser, this immersive giant screen film as we in September, and will be coming to TREASURES OF MOUNT SINAI [email protected] explore the most exciting machines ever fulldome in 2019, with specific Presented in 2D WEB: k2communications.com conceived by man, including the Large sequences shot just for dome screens. RELEASE: 2019-2020 Hadron Collider and James Webb Space FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant The dream of flying has captivated Telescope. See how these new experiments SUPERPOWER DOGS Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, human imagination since prehistoric IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, allow us to look deeper into our origins, Presented in 2D times. Even with the advent of aircrafts Fulldome Digital and unveil the mysteries of dark energy, RELEASE: March 15, 2019 and the increasing availability of air LENGTH: 40:00 dark matter, and extra dimensions. FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant travel, the ancient question stays with Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, PRODUCER: Mount Sinai Project us: What if we could simply spread our DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced SUPER SCIENCE SHOWCASE IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, arms and fly like a bird? Wingsuit flight CONTACT: Nick Pithis, Presented in 2D Fulldome Digital is a groundbreaking phenomenon that [email protected] RELEASE: September 29, 2018 LENGTH: 40:00 has adrenaline junkies traveling the WEB: mountsinaiproject.com FORMATS: 2D, DCI-compliant Digital, PRODUCER: Cosmic Picture world in search of one exhilarating Fulldome Digital DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX and Cosmic Picture Treasures of Mount Sinai is a journey to experience after the next. Our flyers LENGTH: 45:00 CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected]; the mountain where Moses received have set records searching out the PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Wonder Mill Doris Babiera, [email protected]; the Ten Commandments, and discover most exciting locations to take longer Antonietta Monteleone, Cosmos why historical figures like Napoleon, and more daring flights. In this epic [email protected]; CONTACT: Lee Fanning, Ivan the Terrible, and Emperor Justinian 40-minute IMAX experience, we catch John Wickstrom, [email protected] [email protected] sought to protect it. Join an exciting a ride with some of the best flyers in WEB: superpowerdogs.com WEB: superscienceshowcase.com adventure through St. Catherine’s the world as they journey to incredible Super Science Showcase is an exciting Join an immersive IMAX adventure to Monastery in the Egyptian desert mountaintops while teaching us the art collection of five educational adventure experience the life-saving superpowers where you will follow a group of young and science of human flight. The film stories, perfect for middle school and extraordinary bravery of some of students as they embark on the journey is both a first- and third-person audiences and great for all ages. the world’s most amazing dogs. In this of a lifetime. Learn how this unique perspective from the flyers themselves Featuring memorable plots and unique inspiring true story, our best friends environment has contributed to the and a name voice over. It will feature characters, these five stories also teach are also real-life superheroes. Journey preservation of many treasures that has incredible footage from POV helmet an introduction to scientific topics (in around the globe to meet remarkable stood the test of time for over 1500 cameras, flying drones, and helicopter line with National Education Standards) dogs who save lives and discover the years. Uncover the wonders within the rigs. What’s behind the pilot and the that include the Laws of Motion; powerful bond they share with their monastery walls and immerse yourself suit? How can they fly longer and Astronomy; Animal Classification; human partners. Follow Halo, a rookie in a world never before seen on film. faster? Will man ever fly without a States of Energy; and the Scientific puppy training to join one of the most No film crew has ever gained this level chute? We answer those questions and Method. The film is available in both elite disaster response teams in of access to the secrets hidden within more while exploring the burgeoning Standard and Interactive versions; America. Meet Henry, an avalanche the monastery. counter culture of wingsuit pilots, whose Interactive versions include a pause for rescue expert in the Canadian Rockies; lives are dedicated to chasing the thrill an audience quiz question near the end Reef, a Newfoundland lifeguard with and pursuit of human flight. of each adventure, and a possible the Italian coastguard; Ricochet, a

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GSCA f anniversary r s ! t of man’s n s o BLUE WHALES Earth 100 million years ago, a world of te o ps e m RELEASE: March 2021 primitive forests and thick swamps— on th FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant populated by bizarre dinosaurs and Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, colossal amphibians. Enter a surreal world IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, of Permian and Triassic bug-eyed giants Fulldome Digital and egg-laying mammals—where survival don’t miss... LENGTH: 40:00 meant enduring the sunless, six-month PRODUCER: Oceanic Films Ltd. polar winter surrounded by meat-eaters DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced with night vision. Join Antarctic scientists CONTACT: Hugh Pearson, on a quest to understand Earth at a time Planet Power (40 min): [email protected] of great climatic and geologic upheaval… • Saturday, September 22 WEB: oceanicfilms.tv • 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm and to unravel the mystery behind the • Tennessee Aquarium IMAX (Flat) Blue whales grow to 100 foot long and have largest extinction in the history of our a heart the size of a car yet despite their planet. Major funding provided by the great size we know surprisingly little about National Science Foundation. them. With new scientific discoveries and Planet Power (40 min): the latest filming techniques we can now EINSTEIN’S INCREDIBLE UNIVERSE • Monday, September 24 • 10:45 - 11:30 am reveal the secret lives of blue whales, in a RELEASE: 2020 • McWane Science Center (Dome) story made for the giant screen. We will FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Hurricane (20 min): follow a team of passionate scientists using Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, • Sunday, September 23 • 11:30 - 12:00 pm the latest tech and “old fashion” science to IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, • Tennessee Aquarium IMAX (Flat) reveal the blue whales’ epic migrations Fulldome Digital and intimate birthing grounds. In Mexico’s LENGTH: 40:00 nWAve stunning Gulf of California and off the coast PRODUCER: Cosmic Picture booth DISTRIBUTOR: Cosmic Picture Distribution AvAilAble of Southern California we will film blue #8 Also whales as never before. Come with us as we CONTACT: Antonietta Monteleone, for GiAnt screens... [email protected] discover the mysteries of the largest animal NeW WEB: Cosmicpicture.com that has ever lived, shown in life size on the NeW giant screen—a truly awe-inspiring experience. Today Albert Einstein is regarded as the Blue whales—the intimate story of an iconic most famous scientist of all time, his name character in an epic location. Oceanic Films shorthand for genius, yet few of us fully are pleased to team up with Myles Connolly understand his discoveries and their impact as supervising producer on this film. Myles on our lives. Now through a combination is a 25-year giant screen veteran and has of stunning live-action cinematography collaborated on more than 40 award- and immersive CGI, audiences will winning and Oscar-nominated films. experience first-hand the visceral “thought experiments” at the heart of Einstein’s DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA radical new vision of the universe. Along RELEASE: 2020 the way, we will come to appreciate how FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant so many innovations we take for granted Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, stem from his imagination and how his NoRtH/SoUtH AMeRICAN SAleS INteRNAtIoNAl IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 General Theory of Relativity remains the Janine S Baker Goedele Gillis LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 basis of nearly every current theory about +1 818-565-1101 +32 2 347-63-19 [email protected] [email protected] PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films how the cosmos works, from black holes CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] and time travel to the recent discovery of nWave.com | /nWavePicturesDistribution | /nWave | /nWavePictures | /nwavepicturesdistribution Journey to the south polar landscapes of gravitational waves. ©2018 nWave Pictures SA/NV – All Rights Reserved – nWave is a registered trademark of nWave Pictures SA/NV

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GIANT MACHINES OCEAN GIANTS RELEASE: To be determined RELEASE: 2020 FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] Smash! Crunch! Dig! A giant screen, Blue whales are the largest animal ever to full-throttle ode to the bulldozers and live on planet Earth, including the dinosaurs. machines that build (and demolish) our The transition over millions of years from world. For the kids! fish to land mammal is one of life’s most astounding transformations. The return OCEAN 3D of mammalian life from land to sea—a RELEASE: 2020 40-million year epic—is equally profound. FORMATS: 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, Join intrepid paleontologist adventurers DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, IMAX on a giant screen journey to otherworldly Laser, Fulldome Digital, 15/70 if appropriate ancient seas. Discover one of the most LENGTH: 45:00 illustrative evolution stories—through the PRODUCER: Principal Large Format and Vulcan Productions extraordinary Age of Mammals—tracing the early land-dwelling, wolf-like DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined CONTACT: Phil Streather, [email protected] cetaceans to the ocean giants of today. WEB: plf.cc THE PLANETS: OUR NEXT CENTURY Ocean 3D (previously Planet Ocean 3D) IN SPACE is a film about the real-life heroines and RELEASE: 2020 heroes who use science, ingenuity, and FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant collective action to address the big Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, issues that threaten marine environments IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, around the world. Center stage is the Fulldome Digital ocean as an interconnected life- LENGTH: 40:00 supporting system, host to awe-inspiring PRODUCER: Giant Screen Films and K2 biodiversity, but now at risk because of Communications climate change, overfishing and run- DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications away pollution. Audiences will come CONTACT: Mark Kresser, away educated, entertained and, most [email protected] importantly, inspired to action. STOP WEB: K2communications.com PRESS: Wild Ocean/Last Reef/Great From moon bases and space elevators to White helmer Luke Cresswell has come asteroid outposts and aerostatic habitats, on board as writer/director and we look Planets will profile the dreamers of today, forward to sharing exciting news about whose proof-of-concept technologies and the state of financing for this film. mind-blowing innovations may one day allow our children’s children to push ever deeper into a solar system both beautiful and bizarre. Co-produced and co-distributed by Giant Screen Films and K2 Communications.

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SHARK RESCUE are intrigued by them in equal measure. ordinary people can become “tiger first National Park has never before been RELEASE: 2020 Shark Wars: The Ultimate Predator heroes.” And casting a thrilling shadow experienced like this. Follow nature’s epic FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, deploys new science and utilizes filming over all the action is the magnificent, drama as a struggle for survival unfolds in IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- techniques never used before to compare incomparable tiger. three dimensions. The stage is set a place customized 15/70 the physical abilities of Great Whites and like no other: a place where the world’s LENGTH: 42:00 Bull sharks head to head, pushing their YELLOWSTONE: LIFE IN EXTREMES largest active supervolcano fuels the PRODUCER: December Media and Sea Light highly developed sensory systems to the RELEASE: 2020 biggest collection of geothermal features Pictures limit in virtual darkness to determine FORMATS: 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, anywhere on earth, a place where subzero DISTRIBUTOR: December Media Distribution pound for pound which species is the DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, IMAX temperatures and record snowfall dictate CONTACT: Mark Bretherton, ultimate shark predator. Laser, Fulldome Digital harsh trials in a stunning, frozen [email protected] LENGTH: 40:00 wonderland, a place where North Humans don’t need rescuing from sharks, SHIPWRECKS PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Grizzly Creek Films America’s richest ecosystem offers a rare it’s sharks that need rescuing from RELEASE: To be determined CONTACT: Thomas Winston, glimpse into the continent’s wild past. humans. Meet Madi Stewart, a young, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant [email protected] Filmed for two straight years, Yellowstone: Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, passionate shark advocate, on a mission WEB: grizzlycreekfilms.com Life in Extremes is the most ambitious IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 to save sharks from humans—their most For centuries, a single place in North giant screen production ever attempted in LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 fearsome predator. Travel with Madi from America has captured the world’s the iconic national park. And, once again, PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to a remote imagination: Yellowstone. But the world’s the whole world will be watching. island in Indonesia as she works with local CONTACT: Mark Katz, [email protected] villagers to transform their way of life From pirate treasures to sunken galleons from shark fishing to shark tourism. Madi and battleships in tropical lagoons. Join wants to change the way we think about a team of modern explorers to seek and sharks. What better place to start than dive the world’s shipwrecks, relics lost underwater? Come meet them face to to sea. face in this immersive 3D adventure. TIGER, TIGER SHARK WARS: THE ULTIMATE RELEASE: Fall 2019 PREDATOR FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, RELEASE: Fall 2019 IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant LENGTH: 40:00 Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, IMAX Digital, PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] Fulldome Digital The tiger, the biggest of the big cats, is LENGTH: 40:00 one of the most powerful animals to stride PRODUCER: Sea Dog TV International our planet and also one of the most DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications threatened by extinction. Alan Rabinowitz, CONTACT: Mark Kresser, the leading big cat conservation scientist [email protected] of our time, ventures deep into the WEB: K2communications.com mangrove forests of India and Bangladesh Great White sharks are the apex predator seeking the little-known Sunderbans tiger. of the sea. They are the largest of the As he journeys through the remote carnivorous shark species. Bull sharks river-forest and the villages that surround are smaller, but often are regarded as it, Alan encounters both the threats the the most aggressive of all the sharks. tiger faces, and the solutions that can save Evolution has arguably delivered the it. Evoking his own childhood vow to be a perfect predators. As such, we fear and voice for animals, Alan shows how

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Giant Screen 101 for 20 years, including the Sydney (pre-conference session) theater, one of the best performing theaters in the world. In 2017 he made Thursday, September 20 the transition into distribution. He 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm wasn’t the first and won’t be the last, Portman Ballroom, Westin Hotel but he can offer a fresh perspective SESSION ORGANIZER: Diane Carlson, on how the business looks from both Giant Screen Cinema Consulting sides and why it is important to SESSION MODERATOR: Paul Wild, understand that no matter what side Theatre Director, IMAX Victoria in the of the business you are on, we are all Royal BC Museum in this together. Giant screen veterans and newcomers alike have high praise for this ongoing THEATER LAUNCHES: A series of discussions with knowledgeable COLLECTION OF BIG IDEAS and approachable industry experts. Marlene Janetos, Museum of Discovery This session is a great kick-off to and Science, Fort Lauderdale, FL the conference and is a safe and Discover a collection of big marketing comfortable space for all questions. ideas from several theaters that have launched new theaters or introduced a HOW TO DELIVER A CRACKING new projection system. You’ll discover FILM LAUNCH CAMPAIGN marketing tactics, such as advertising, Kate Piasecka, IMAX Melbourne Museum public relations and promotional Learn how carefully planned, creative, activities that worked for other giant targeted and integrated marketing screen theaters. Find out what and communications strategies will promotions yielded the biggest impact. result in smashing your targeted admissions. The Australian theater MAXIMIZE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION was awarded the juried GSCA Best POTENTIAL Film Launch by a Theater award in Patricia Keighley, IMAX Corporation 2017 for the campaign in support of You’ve captured the images, recorded A Beautiful Planet. Kate will discuss the sound, edited the film, and created the team’s work on behalf of A the marketing campaign—and now Beautiful Planet, Pandas, and you want to go global. An overview of various Hollywood titles. how to maximize global distribution opportunities through localization with WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER dubs, subtitles, censor-cut edits, CC, VI, Mark Bretherton, December Media HI, and more. How do you remotely Distribution modify an OV DCP to a censor-cut, Distributors cannot live without subtitled version with an email? These theatres and theatres cannot live insights from a variety of distributors, without films. We often joke about while helpful to producers and distribution as the “dark side,” so what filmmakers, will also provide a view happens when an exhibitor makes the for exhibitors into the challenges of transition to the dark side? Mark global distribution. Bretherton ran theaters in Australia

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Blockbusters! Enhancing Social Media Audit: the Fundamentals of A Case Study Space Shuttle Atlantis Programming, Marketing, Saturday, September 22 Kennedy Space Center and Sponsorship for 10:30-11:45 am Portman Ballroom, Westin Maximum Success PRESENTER: Brian Siddle, Strong Saturday, September 22 Coffee Marketing 9:00-10:15 am GSCA received strong positive Portman Ballroom, Westin feedback for the GSCA Marketing SESSION ORGANIZER: Patty Collins, Symposium sessions “Practical (and MacGillivray Freeman Films Creative) Ways to Increase Ticket SESSION MODERATOR: Alan Nursall, TELUS Revenue” and “Social Media Tips and World of Science-Edmonton Trends” presented by Brian Siddle of Strong Coffee Marketing. Because of When exhibitors program a film this positive feedback and increasing launch as a blockbuster event, the C member interest in digital marketing, results can be astounding. Focusing Brian conducted social media audits M on 1-2 films per year with targeted Nighttime Spectaculars with the Tennessee Aquarium and Y marketing, promotional and media Ontario Science Centre this summer Walt Disney World partnerships, sponsorship and CM focused on audience identification, advertising can drive record numbers. online monitoring, review monitoring, MY Come see how it has helped these competitor analysis, social media major institutions attract and retain CY opportunities, and other information audiences year after year. identified during the audit process. HeCMY

Marlene Janetos, Museum of Discovery and then developed an action plan for K Science, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, will each theater, helped them implement discuss their innovative marketing some of the key changes, and campaign for Pandas. monitored analytics over the summer. Julie La Roche, Montreal Science Centre, This session will look at what was Montreal, will discuss how to value your learned during the audits, recommended institution and leverage film/museum changes, results based on the changes One World Observatory sponsorships for best results. made, and further expectations. World Trade Center Joanie Vandenberg Philipp, Discovery Place, Charlotte, North Carolina, will discuss their museum-wide programming of Year of Beyond All Boundaries the Engineer and Dream Big. World War II Museum Ursula Phillips, TELUS World of Science- Edmonton will discuss their programming and marketing for Extreme Weather.

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Saturday, September 22 blended image across the entire dome 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm with multiple digital projectors are gone. Tennessee Aquarium IMAX Theater Learn about proven tools and techniques that remove the complexity 8K DIGITAL CAMERA COMPARISON of multi-projector setups and PRESENTERS: Michael Daut, Mousetrappe; maintenance by automating the Rick Gordon, RPG Productions; James warping, blending and alignment of the Neihouse, ASC projectors, eliminating downtime and Harkness Screens the need for a costly service visit. In July, the GSCA technical committee, conducted a digital camera comparison GIANT SCREEN PRODUCTION to demonstrate the strengths of five WITH THE SONY CINEALTA higher-than-6K-resolution cameras—Arri VENICE CAMERA Alexa 65, Canon C700 Full Frame, Sony PRESENTER: Peter Chang, Golden Gate 3D Venice, Panavision DXL2 , Red Weapon Monstro Vista Vision—to show filmmakers Sony’s new CineAlta VENICE camera is how each performs in various shooting a significant new development for large situations. The test evaluates dynamic format image capture with wide latitude range, sharpness (with charts), beauty shots and color gamut, a 1.5 aspect closer to with moving detail, performance in low light IMAX 1.43, and numerous other features. and varying shooting conditions (sunlight, Director/DP Peter Chang will dive into overcast, indoors), fine detail performance, the shoot of his recent production in flesh tones, and aspect ratio. Venice, Italy, and showcase the footage that was captured, which was shot on a IMPROVE YOUR AERIALS AND wide variety of lenses. STAY SAFE DIGITAL CAMERA COLOR PRESENTER: Peter Degerfeldt, Blue Sky Aerial REPRODUCTION and Specialist Filming PRESENTER: Pawel Achtel, Achtel Pty. Ltd. How to stay alive and come back with Pawel Achtel, member of the Australian stabilized footage for the giant screen. Cinematographer’s Society (ACS), has Find out which systems work for the designed an accurate and objective giant screen and learn about the logistics, process to test the color range a camera rigging, helicopters and cameras can you can see and how accurately it can use, etc. Save your pixels for the big reproduce them. To ensure accuracy, he screen using stabilized systems on the uses a laboratory spectroscope to ground or other vehicles instead of doing project all visible monochromatic colors expensive post work. directly onto the camera’s sensor, which HOW TO EASILY MAINTAIN removes a number of variables, PERFECT PROJECTION SYSTEM inaccuracies and subjectivity introduced ALIGNMENT WEEKS, MONTHS AND through lighting, lenses, dyes, and other EVEN YEARS AFTER INSTALLATION factors associated with using color PRESENTER: Christie presenter to be charts. Pawel will present the results of announced tests he conducted, with assistance from the ACS, with the Sony Venice, Arri Alexa The days of worrying about creating LF, RED Monstro, and Panavision DXL2. and maintaining one seamless, perfectly

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Monday, September 24 showcase stable, compact, ultra-quiet, McWane Science Center solid state laser projection technology that offers lowest-possible maintenance Chartered bus for Dome Day in and excellent flexibility in projector Birmingham, Alabama, will leave placement. The additional capability of promptly at 7:30 am from the Westin high frame rate playback of up to 120 Hotel Chattanooga lobby. Please note frames per second at full resolution the bus ride is just over two hours, enables more immersive audience but we cross a time zone. Chattanooga experiences. is EDT and Birmingham is CDT. Content presented during the demo will RGB Laser Digital include 8K content sourced from 15/70 Dome Demo film, 8K content sourced from 8K digital Christie Ad 9:00 – 10:30 am cameras, 8K x 6K spherical remastering, results of the 8K Digital Camera Presented by the GSCA Technical Comparison conducted by GSCA this ™ Committee, with equipment summer, and Alternative content. kindly provided by Evans & Sutherland and Christie Experience the difference that this RGB laser digital dome technology makes. GSCA is pleased to present a state-of- Real laser Whether you’re a dome theater manager, | the-art Evans and Sutherland digital a filmmaker or producer, you won’t want dome system using new, groundbreaking to miss this first-ever GSCA-hosted RGB Raising the bar (again) solid state RGB laser projection laser digital dome demonstration. technology from Christie®. Hosted by the GSCA Technical Shooting for the Dome Committee, the demonstration will PRESENTER: Jonathan Bird, Oceanic You won’t want to miss the RGB laser digital showcase the first in a new family of Research Group, Inc. dome demonstration showcasing the ﬁrst never-before-seen Christie 4K pure RGB The dome theater is probably the most laser projection solutions paired with E&S in a new family of never-before-seen immersive theatrical environment in digital dome technology. Using three Christie® 4K pure RGB laser projection solutions. widespread use. Filmmaking for the projectors, the brightness and resolution dome, however, is quite different from will exceed that of any single-projector the flat screen. There are special digital or film-based system, and dome considerations in composition, action, coverage will be comparable to 15/70 lighting, editing, and grading to produce Monday, September 24th – 9:00 am to 10:30 am film. The system will use E&S’s films that really work on a hemispherical proprietary auto alignment and blending Birmingham, AL – McWane Science Center screen. Digital cinematography with systems to produce a seamless, ultra- sensors that do not match the aspect high resolution image. ratio of the screen adds another twist. In

Fully compliant with the GSCA’s Digital this fun and action-packed tech session, Presented by Evans & Sutherland and Christie All rights reserved. Inc. USA, © 2018 Christie Digital Systems Immersive Giant Screen Specifications experienced dome filmmaker Jonathan (DIGSS 2.0), RGB laser is the only Bird will make you an expert in shooting projection technology capable of for the dome! And as Rick Gordon says: delivering up to Rec. 2020 color space Follow this advice and save yourself for superior color depth and stunning hundreds of thousands of dollars trying image quality. The demonstration will to fix it in post. christiedigital.com 42 43 TRADE SHOW

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ACHTEL PTY LTD committed to delivering films to inspire smashed box office records in giant American distributor of Birdly VR, Pawel Achtel, [email protected] and long-term relationships with screen theaters worldwide. Cosmic an innovative virtual reality flight +61-407472747 producers and theaters. Picture is the exclusive distributor of simulator that couples both robotics achtel.com the National Geographic educational and simulation technology to deliver facebook.com/Underwater3D CHRISTIE documentary film library. Upcoming an immersive flight experience like Twitter: @PawelAchtel Doug Boyer releases include Superpower Dogs none before. Instagram: @pawel.achtel [email protected] (March 2019), Expedition Chesapeake 1-505-501-2280 Pawel Achtel ACS has been involved in (Spring 2019), Back from the Brink DECEMBER MEDIA DISTRIBUTION christiedigital.com underwater cinematography for almost (September 2019) and Einstein’s Mark Bretherton facebook.com/christiedigital 30 years. Pawel also designs and Incredible Universe (2020). For more [email protected] linkedin.com/company/christie-digital- produces underwater cinematography +61 3 9699 8911 systems information, visit www.cosmicpicture. equipment. His work has been featured decembermedia.com.au Twitter: @christiedigital com. by National Geographic, BBC, Discovery facebook.com/DecemberMedia ® Twitter: @DecemberMedia and Sony. For almost a decade Pawel’s Visit the Christie booth to learn about D3D CINEMA focus has been on 3D cinematography our new, groundbreaking family of Don Kempf, [email protected] December Media tells stories that excite for IMAX and giant screen cinema. Pawel RealLaser™ 4K pure RGB laser projection 1-847-475-9140 and inspire. Ever since our first giant is a member of the Technical Committee solutions. Captivate your audience with d3dcinema.com screen feature, Hidden Universe, we at Giant Screen Cinema Association a mesmerizing, immersive experience, facebook.com/GSFD3D/ have strived to produce visually stunning (GSCA) and the Australian surrounding them in brilliant, vibrantly Twitter: @d3dcinema films that thrill and educate. We want to Cinematographers Society Technical colorful, crisp and detailed visuals. Gain D3D Cinema offers complete digital 3D enrich and entertain audiences and we Committee. Pawel has achieved the freedom to choose the content you cinema solutions and services to giant believe there is no better way to do this numerous prestigious Australian and want to play and expand your screen and museum/aquarium/science than through the immersive giant screen International awards. In 2013 Pawel won capabilities with new content such as center industry clients worldwide, experience. the coveted Studio Daily Innovation live transmissions, special event providing a welcome alternative and EOMAC LTD. Award at NAB Show in Las Vegas and in promotions and Hollywood movies. Ask unique partnership approach to theater Jeffrey Sirelpuu, [email protected] 2015 Pawel was awarded the Inaugural us about the amazing, low-maintenance design and installation. Comprised of requirements. And discover the institutional theater specialists, D3D 1-905-586-2141 Bob Miller ACS Technical and Innovation eomac.com longevity, reliability and flexibility that excels in bringing first-to-market Award. In 2017 Pawel received ACS ca.linkedin.com/company/eomac-ltd Accreditation, Golden Tripod and Christie’s solid-state projection immersive cinema technologies to its EOMAC is a specialist in acoustic wall Gold Ron Taylor ACS Award for his technology offers. clients, offering technology-agnostic and ceiling treatments ranging from cinematography. consultation, strategic planning, COSMIC PICTURE installation, content production & fabric, wood, wall carpet, and digitally Antonietta Monteleone BIG & DIGITAL distribution, operational support, and printed items such as in-VISIBLE [email protected] Tina Ratterman ongoing service—saving its clients illuminated pre/post show acoustic [email protected] 1-914-617-8032 graphics. EOMAC offers lighting John Wickstrom, [email protected] millions of dollars in operating 1-702-932-4045 efficiencies. Having recently surpassed solutions with our unique wood or fabric biganddigital.com 1-913-648-5886 fixtures, LED accent lighting, and aisle cosmicpicture.com its 50-installation milestone, D3D has facebook.com/BIGandDigital/ disrupted the status quo with the lighting. EOMAC can also provide screen Cosmic Picture was founded to produce Skype: biganddigital industry’s first 4K 3D giant screen surfaces, 3D screens, screen frames, Twitter: @biganddigital and distribute the most compelling installation, the first 6P laser giant screen cinema seating, carpet/vinyl floor cinematic experiences possible to A boutique distributor of award-winning installation, and the first laser-illuminated finishes, and are certified foam riser change people’s perception of the content for museums and planetariums giant dome cinema installation. D3D is installers. EOMAC—providing turnkey ® universe in ways never imagined. in 15/70mm, 4K Digital, IMAX Digital, headquartered in Evanston, IL, with cinema solutions in over 70 countries Cosmic Picture’s latest production and 4K and 8K Fulldome. Traditional offices in the greater Philadelphia and for over 25 years! was the award-winning giant screen films with unique stories and production New York City areas, Canada, and Spain. documentary Jerusalem, a film that qualities are our specialty. We are D3D is also the exclusive North

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EVANS & SUTHERLAND IMAX CORPORATION MACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN FILMS museum exhibits, attractions, and live Scott Niskash, [email protected] Therese Andrade, [email protected] Patty Collins, [email protected] events for the most treasured theme 1-801-588-7972 1-310-255-5588 Chip Bartlett, [email protected] parks, museums, events, and IPs in the es.com Gina Glen, [email protected] 1-949-494-1055 world. Mousetrappe created some of the facebook.com/Evans.and.Sutherland 1-905-403-6294 macgillivrayfreemanfilms.com most complex and entertaining massive- Evans & Sutherland, the company that imax.com facebook.com/MacGillivrayFreeman scale architecturally mapped projection first brought digital projection to giant facebook.com/IMAXUSCA/ Twitter: @MacFreeFilms nighttime spectaculars for top-tier screens, proudly introduces the ESX™ Twitter: @IMAX Instagram: @MacFreeFilms theme parks worldwide; media-based line of extreme, high resolution IMAX, the pioneer in large-format MacGillivray Freeman Films is the largest theme park attractions; and award- projection systems for giant screen. exhibition and producer of award- independent producer of giant-screen winning world-renowned media Designed not simply to replace 15/70 winning giant-screen documentaries, films and has produced many of the experiences including the Space Shuttle film imagery, but to eclipse it, ESX combines proprietary, cutting-edge most popular and highest grossing films Atlantis attraction at Kennedy Space projection systems deliver the unique, technology to deliver audiences the in the industry. Current releases include Center. Led by a team of multi award- breathtaking cinematic experience your word’s most immersive film experience. America’s Musical Journey, Great Barrier winning creative and technological audiences have come to expect. Only The most prestigious museums, science Reef, Dream Big: Engineering Our World, talent, Mousetrappe’s spectacular Evans & Sutherland offers giant screen centres and aquariums have partnered National Parks Adventure, and The experiences magically entertain millions projection with comprehensive, versatile with IMAX to entertain, educate and Search for Life in Space. Our upcoming of visitors annually and repeatedly day real-time capability. Experience ESX on inspire patrons about the wonders of releases include Great Bear Rainforest after day, night after night. Monday at Dome Day in Birmingham. the universe. (available February 2019) from Spirit Bear Entertainment, Ancient Caves NWAVE PICTURES DISTRIBUTION K2 STUDIOS GIANT SCREEN FILMS (2019), Ireland (wt) (2020) and a New Janine S. Baker, [email protected] Mark Kresser Don Kempf, [email protected] Adventure Film (2020). Visit us at the 1-818-565-1101 [email protected] 1-847-475-9140 trade show to learn more about these Goedele Gillis, [email protected] gsfilms.com Ed Capelle +32 2 347-63-19 [email protected] exciting releases and our library of facebook.com/GSFD3D/ award-winning films, includingWe, The nWave.comf 1-310-524-9100 facebook.com/nWavePicturesDistribution For over two decades, Giant Screen Marines, Humpback Whales, Journey To k2communications.com Instagram: @nwavepicturesdistribution Films (GSF) has established itself as a The South Pacific, To The Arctic, Grand facebook.com/k2communications/ Twitter: @nWave pioneer in the large-format industry, Twitter: @k2comm Canyon Adventure, Everest, and the ® nWave Pictures Distribution is the sales producing and distributing films that K2 Studios is committed to producing, Academy Award -nominated pictures push the boundaries of the medium. Dolphins and The Living Sea. and marketing division of nWave Studios, distributing, and developing films that a fully integrated digital feature animation Through the magic of immersive sight resonate with diverse audiences and that and sound technologies, GSF’s MOUSETRAPPE studio. The company is known as a market are rich in STEM content. Working jointly Michael Daut leader in the supply of exciting and productions challenge the imaginations with accomplished filmmakers like of children and adults, offering an [email protected] immersive 3D/4D content that maximizes Stephen Low and Mark Krenzien, K2 1-818-972-2525 (office) the WOW factor for audiences. We offer inspiring perspective on the world and Studios has released a number of top an unforgettable theater experience. 1-818-593-9458 (mobile) giant screen educational documentaries performing large format films, including mousetrappe.com Meaningful educational collaborations for institutional sites (science centers, their most recent releases, Aircraft facebook.com/Mousetrappe and partnerships extend each film’s aquariums, zoos and natural history Carrier: Guardian of the Seas and Twitter: @Mousetrappe impact far beyond the theater. The museums, etc.), as well as attraction Journey to Space, both joint K2/GSF Instagram: @Mousetrappe company is recognized as one of the films and ride simulation titles for special productions. Two new films will be Mousetrappe is an award-winning venues. 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PAWEL ACHTEL JONATHAN BIRD Center. Diane’s GSCA committee PATTY COLLINS Cinematographer President and Founder participation includes membership, Director of Global Sales Achtel Pty. Ltd. Oceanic Research Group Inc. marketing, conference, and professional MacGillivray Freeman Films SESSION: Digital Camera SESSION: Shooting for the development. She initiated and coordinates SESSION: Blockbusters! Reproduction Dome the Giant Screen 101 Workshop at the Enhancing the Fundamentals Pawel Achtel ACS has Jonathan Bird is an Emmy annual conference. She is serving her fourth of Programming, Marketing, been involved in underwater award-winning cinematographer elected term on the GSCA board. The and Sponsorship for Maximum Success cinematography for almost 30 years. specializing in underwater production. He is launch of the Boeing IMAX® Theater, which Patty Collins began her career in the giant Pawel also designs and produces currently in production on Ancient Caves, a she led, garnered a GSTA MAC theater screen business with IMAX Corp. in 1998 underwater cinematography equipment. film for giant dome theaters. His previous launch award. Diane was honored in 2012 after working at MGM Studios and Orion His work has been featured by National film,Space School, about underwater with an IMAX Founders Award and in 2013 Pictures in theatrical publicity and Geographic, BBC, Discovery and Sony. astronaut training, is a live-action fulldome with a GSCA Big Shoe award recognizing promotions. After working with IMAX Corp. For almost a decade Pawel’s focus has film. He is the host and producer of her volunteer work for the association. Her for two years in theatrical partnerships and been on 3D cinematography for IMAX and Jonathan Bird’s Blue World, an educational travels have taken her to over 100 IMAX® promotions, Patty went to work for giant screen cinema. Pawel is a member family-friendly underwater adventure series theaters on four continents. She attended MacGillivray Freeman Films where she of the Technical Committee at the Giant airing on public television in the USA since the University of California at Berkeley, spent 13 years in film development. Screen Cinema Association (GSCA) and 2008. This series has won 8 Emmy Awards earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Focused on securing investment partners the Australian Cinematographers Society and is currently in the 6th season of zoology and a Masters of Public Health. and corporate sponsors, Patty worked with Technical Committee. Pawel has achieved production. Jonathan has shot and high-profile global brands such as Coca-Cola, numerous prestigious Australian and produced over 50 films, which have PETER CHANG Pacific Life, Porsche, Teva, Holcim, Kohler International awards. In 2013 Pawel won appeared all over the world on networks Director, Producer, and more. Patty also worked with private the coveted Studio Daily Innovation such as National Geographic Channel, PBS, Cinematographer foundations, investment and institutional Award at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, and ABC, USA Network, Discovery, and even Golden Gate 3D partners and non-profit groups such as SESSION: Giant Screen in 2015 Pawel was awarded the Inaugural the SciFi Channel. Jonathan is the president World Wildlife Fund, The Waterkeeper Production with the Sony Bob Miller ACS Technical and Innovation and founder of Oceanic Research Group, Alliance, Audubon Nature Institute, Warner CineAlta VENICE Camera Award. In 2017 Pawel received ACS Inc., www.oceanicresearch.org, a non-profit Bros. and The Campion Foundation. After Accreditation, Golden Tripod and Gold environmental organization founded in Peter H. Chang is an award-winning a brief hiatus from the industry working Ron Taylor ACS Award for his 1990 to promote conservation of the director, producer, and cinematographer at a non-profit hospital, Patty is back at cinematography. world’s oceans. He is the author of seven based in San Francisco, California. His work MacGillivray Freeman Films in Distribution books of underwater photography. for the giant screen includes Jerusalem, as the Director of Global Sales. MARK BRETHERTON www.jonathanbird.net winner of the GSCA Award for Best Head of Distribution Cinematography and Best Film, Panama: MICHAEL DAUT December Media Distribution DIANE CARLSON A Land Divided, a World United, National Director of New Business SESSION: Giant Screen 101 President, Giant Screen Parks Adventure, Planet Power, and the Development, Mousetrappe Mark Bretherton has been Cinema Consulting, LLC upcoming Cuba. His filmDeus Ex Homine SESSIONS: 8K Digital Camera in the giant screen business SESSION: Giant Screen 101 was awarded Nvidia’s Best 3D Video and Comparison, Dome Demo for 22 years. He has 20 years experience Diane Carlson’s firm, Giant is featured on NBC Universal’s Best of 3D Michael serves as the Director operating, marketing and programming Screen Cinema Consulting, blu-ray. His work is featured in the HBO of New Business Development for IMAX theatres in Australia. He is now has had a busy first year with documentary series The Weight of the Mousetrappe, a production studio that Head of Distribution for December Media projects for the BBC, December Media, Nation and the music video for Coldplay’s creates media-based immersive and is seeing a different side to the giant MacGillivray Freeman Films, IMAX, Stephen “Midnight,” which launched their Ghost experiences. He is an immersive media screen industry. Low Productions, and the Smithsonian. Stories album and tour. Peter produced, pioneer and an award-winning writer, She is currently serving as the Principle directed, and shot the filmSan Francisco producer, and director for fulldome videos, Investigator of a $2.9M National Science Flow for Samsung and the television series theatrical productions, music videos, live Foundation grant in support of the Amazon Lightscapes for Discovery. concert videos, commercials, documentaries, Adventure film project for Pacific Science corporate videos, and trade show

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presentations. In his former position at RICK GORDON and concession operations. Janetos spent Television. Keighley holds a BA in Psychology Evans & Sutherland, he helped develop a President & Co-founder four years at the Orlando Science Center (McMaster University), a M.Ed. (University library of shows for the digital fulldome RPG Productions and was part of the opening teams of three of Toronto) and Directors Education community. He created the world’s first SESSION: 8K Digital venues: Daytona Beach Ocean Center, Certification from UCLA’s Anderson School digital fulldome film for SIGGRAPH ’99 in Camera Comparison Orlando Arena, and Big Bear Arena & of Management. Los Angeles. He also helped create the Rick has worked on more Fitness Center. Janetos holds a Bachelor’s world’s first digital fulldome transfer of a than 70 giant screen projects, both 2D and degree in Journalism: Advertising/Public JULIE LA ROCHE giant screen film,Africa the Serengeti, in 3D. Recent giant screen credits include Back Relations. She is a graduate of the IAAM Director of Business 2007. Because of this groundbreaking first From The Brink (post supervisor); Hearst “Ogelby” Public Assembly Facility Development Old Port of Montreal and step, there are now over 60 giant screen Castle: 20th Anniversary Edition (producer); Management School. She currently serves Montreal Science Centre films converted to fulldome digital. He also Aircraft Carrier (post supervisor & 3D on the GSCA board and as the Membership SESSION: Blockbusters! produced the first two 8K Digital Dome producer); Extreme Weather (co-producer); Committee Chair. She is an American Enhancing the Fundamentals of Demos for GSCA and co-produced 2016’s (co-producer & visual Express Leadership Alumni now serving on Journey to Space 3D Programming, Marketing, and Sponsorship True8K digital dome event with members the alumni committee summit task force. effects supervisor); Dream Big (digital post for Maximum Success of the Technical Committee. Michael is a supervisor); Titans of the Ice Age 3D Julie La Roche entered the giant screen member of the Producers Guild of America, (co-producer & visual effects supervisor); PATRICIA KEIGHLEY industry more than 20 years ago as Director a founding member of the Association of Mysteries of China (post supervisor); and Chief Quality Guru of the IMAX® 3D Theatre at the Old Port of Fulldome Innovators, a member of the We, The Marines (digital post supervisor). IMAX Corporation SESSION: Montreal. In 2000, she was an integral part Telly Awards’ Silver Council, and a board His work includes post supervision for two Giant Screen 101 of the project team who oversaw the member of both GSCA and IMERSA. Academy Award-nominated films,Amazon Patricia Keighley, Chief Quality expansion of the stand-alone commercial and Special Effects. Feature-length giant Guru, IMAX Corporation, is theatre into a major education-based PETER DEGERFELDT screen credits include Disney’s Beauty and co-founder (1972) of IMAX POST/DKP Inc., institution, the Montreal Science Centre. Director of Photography The Beast, The Lion King, and Treasure an IMAX subsidiary since 1988. She provides As the Director of Business Development Blue Sky Aerial and Specialist Planet; James Cameron’s DeepSea a unique perspective of four decades of Filming for the MSC and the Old Port of Montréal, Challenge; National Geographic’s U2-3D; groundbreaking experience in presentation SESSION: Improve Your Aerials her portfolio includes leading strategic and Studio Canal’s Fly Me to the Moon. Rick excellence and strategic development and Stay Safe development activities, new business currently serves on the Board of Directors having been involved in the large format initiatives, and sponsorships for the IMAX Since 1984 Peter Degerfeldt of Blue Sky for the GSCA and previously served on the post-production of 450+ projects released TELUS Theatre, the Montreal Science has been filming action adventures, Board of Directors of the LFCA. in film, digital and IMAX with Laser theatres documentaries, commercials, features, 3D worldwide. Keighley served as Board Centre Foundation and the Old Port of and giant screen films. From the fast jets MARLENE JANETOS Secretary of the Giant Screen Cinema Montréal. Under Julie’s leadership, her team of the Swedish Airforce, to Mount Everest Vice President of Visitor Association for seven years and chaired the contributes to an average of 2.5M$/year in and Antarctica, he has met every challenge Services and Marketing & Conference Committee multiple times. She sponsorship. Despite the challenging with a film camera. He has more than Communications continues to manage the preparation of business environment (more than 12 IMAX 4,000 skydives, many BASE jumps, and Museum of Discovery and content for presentation and hosts the screens operated by three different 2,100 hours of logged air time in Science GSCA’s Films in Production and Projects in organizations in the city of Montréal), the helicopters and jet fighters. His credits SESSIONS: Giant Screen 101 and Development conference sessions. Keighley MSC’s TELUS IMAX Theatre remains among include Oscar-nominated feature films like Blockbusters! Enhancing the Fundamentals served on the Society of Motion Picture and the top-attended giant screen venues in of Programming, Marketing, and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Kon-Tiki. Television Engineers (SMPTE) Executive the world. Julie’s team was awarded the Sponsorship for Maximum Success He is trained in and uses all gyro systems, Committee, as a Regional Governor and Chair GSCA’s 2009 and 2016 Achievement both civil and military. He has his own GSS Marlene Janetos has served at the Museum of the Society’s 1000+-member Hollywood Award for Big Idea and 2012’s Achievement 520 5 axis gyro system with complete of Discovery and Science in Fort Lauderdale, section. Keighley is a member of the Award for Best Film Launch by a Theatre. solutions for filming in any airspeed, on Florida, since 2002. She directs all marketing, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Over the years she has contributed to the helicopters, cars, wires, boats, etc. Peter is public relations, and advertising efforts in the American Society of Cinematographers, GSCA through the Conference Planning based in Sweden but works globally. addition to overseeing visitor services, the Hollywood Post Alliance, and the and Award Committee and she is a GSCA membership, graphics, IMAX theater, retail, Academy of Canadian Cinema and board member.

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JAMES NEIHOUSE, ASC JOANIE VANDENBERG Ursula has been heavily involved in businesses. He has developed keynotes, Cinematographer PHILIPP marketing and communications for more workshops, and webinars for SESSION: 8K Digital Camera Chief Operating Officer than 20 years and has held executive organizations such as Destination British Comparison Discovery Place positions strengthening brands and Columbia, Tourism Yukon, Travel Alberta, James Neihouse is a freelance SESSION: Blockbusters! messaging. She develops creative action PGA of Canada, Century 21, and Alberta cinematographer who has Enhancing the Fundamentals plans that turn attention into revenue. She Culture and Tourism. Brian also been involved with the giant screen film of Programming, Marketing, and has developed and executed award presented “Practical (and Creative) Ways business since 1976. His credits include Sponsorship for Maximum Success winning brand positioning strategies, to Increase Ticket Revenue” and “Social some of the most successful films in the Joanie a multi-talented leader with over 34 marketing and communication plans and Media Tips and Trends” at the GSCA 2017 format, including The Dream Is Alive, Space years of experience in management, exhibit community engagement profiles. She is Marketing Symposium. Station, Hubble 3D, and A Beautiful Planet. development, and educational programs currently the Vice President of Marketing In 1980 he was cinematographer for The at Discovery Place. She has built a strong and Communications at TELUS World of PAUL WILD Eruption of Mount St. Helens, the first giant organization that delivers results by Science–Edmonton. Prior to that she was Theatre Director screen film to be nominated for an aligning strategic vision with operational the Senior Advertising and Promotions IMAX Victoria In the Royal BC Museum Academy Award. In his work on the IMAX goals, with substantial focus on quality of Director with CTV Edmonton and CTV Two SESSION: Giant Screen 101 space films, he has trained more than 26 programs, exhibits, theaters, facilities, Alberta. She believes strongly in creativity shuttle and space station crews on the customer satisfaction, relationship and collaboration to empower high October 2018 marks the 15th intricacies of large format filmmaking. management, and return on investment. With performing, results driven teams. anniversary for Paul in the giant screen Neihouse’s work has taken him from the a reputation for bringing projects to fruition industry. During this time and with credit Arctic Circle to the jungles of India, from on time and within budget, Joanie’s work KATE PIASECKA towards a commitment to film marketing South Pacific coral reefs to Sub-Saharan has been instrumental in the development PR & Marketing Manager and a great team of staff and management, Africa, and from the decks of The America’s of two new children’s museums, $3.5 million IMAX Melbourne Theatre IMAX Victoria has continually been a top SESSION: Giant Screen 101 Cup yachts to the cockpit of the Space science museum labs and exhibition additions, performer in the industry. In addition, Shuttle. In 2017, he was named as one $2 million renovation of a professional Kate has been with the IMAX Paul has implemented and maintained of the Imaging Alliance’s Visionary development studio, Discovery Place Melbourne theatre for three the most successful annual pass program Photographers. He is a US State Science’s $31.6 million renovation total years and has a background in major in the IMAX world, with around 19,000 to Department-American Film Showcase Film facility renovation with 10 new Exhibitions, events PR and natural resources and 20,000 members annually. In 2008 his Envoy, and is a member of the American and 3 new public labs, all within a the last tourism marketing. Kate holds a Bachelor projection booth team was awarded the Society of Cinematographers (ASC), the 10 years, as well as providing conceptual of Journalism majoring in Communications Best Booth Award courtesy of IMAX Academy of Motion Picture Arts and design, design, and fabrication oversight to from Monash University. In her spare time, Corporation. While essentially operating Sciences, cinematography branch, and major traveling exhibitions at Discovery Place Kate enjoys reformer Pilates and cackling as an independent commercial theater, honorary member of the Malaysian Society Science. She has also spearheaded countless loudly through re-runs of Brooklyn 99. Paul has also had the benefit and of Cinematographers. other major projects. She has held the roles experience of operating within the of VP, Exhibitions & Operations, Director of BRIAN SIDDLE environment of a mission-based ALAN NURSALL Major Projects, Director of Public Programs, Director of Community and institution—the Royal BC Museum. His President and CEO, TELUS Director of Volunteer Services Manager, Content 20+ years of professional hotel management World of Science-Edmonton and Manager of Health Sciences. Strong Coffee Marketing experience within the tourism and hospitality SESSION: Blockbusters! SESSION: Social Media Audit: field complements his approach to the Enhancing the Fundamentals URSULA PHILLIPS A Case Study giant screen industry. Over the years he of Programming, Marketing, Vice President of Marketing Brian’s primary focus lies in social media has contributed to the GSCA through a and Sponsorship for Maximum Success and Communications strategy, community management, and long-standing involvement on the Alan Nursall is the President and CEO of TELUS World of Science- content planning. He helps to develop Professional Development Committee the TELUS World of Science–Edmonton. Edmonton strategic direction for clients and and is a GSCA board member. Prior to joining TWOSE in 2014, he worked SESSION: Blockbusters! conducts numerous digital marketing for Science North, Discovery Channel Enhancing the Fundamentals of workshops and presentations for local Programming, Marketing, and Sponsorship Canada, and Next Exhibits. for Maximum Success

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