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3 Thanks to our sponsors With thanks to our conference sponsors 4 Schedule Premier Level Sponsors 7 Map of conference event venues 8 Map of Sheraton meeting rooms 12 Professional development 16 Technical session GSCA Contacts Giant Screen Cinema 20 New films Association 34 Films in production 624 Holly Springs Road, Suite 243 Holly Springs, NC 27540 U.S. 46 Projects in development giantscreencinema.com Director Level Sponsor Trade show exhibitors facebook.com/giantscreencinema 52 twitter.com/gsca 57 Presenter biographies Find our group on LinkedIn Tammy Seldon Executive Director Office: 1-919-346-1123 Advertising index Mobile: 1-703-855-3699 Theater Level Sponsors 3D Entertainment Distribution 29 [email protected] American Museum of Natural History 25 Christie / Electrosonic 17 Kelly Germain Director of Membership and Doremi Labs Inc. 43 Communications Evans & Sutherland 19 Office: 1-651-917-1080 FotoKem/GSCA Party 49 Mobile: 1-651-270-4915 GSCA 64 [email protected] Fan Level Sponsors ImagesInSound 15 IMAX Corporation inside front cover, 1 Eileen Pheiffer K2 Communications 27 Accounting MacGillivray Freeman Films 32, 33 Office: 1-314-725-7020 nWave Pictures Distribution 23 Mobile: 1-314-708-0448 [email protected] Schneider Optics 39 SK Films 44, 45 www.giantscreencinema.com Sony Pictures Classics, Large Format 10, 11 Twitter hashtag: #GSCA2014 General Sponsors Strong-MDI inside back cover Terwilliger Productions back cover Cosmic Picture, Dolby, ImagesInSound, K2 Communications, Magic Factory Productions/ Ushio America 41 Naya Legend of the Golden Dolphin, SK Films, Terwilliger Productions Visceral Image Productions 37

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Friday, September 19: Pre-Conference Day Sunday, September 21: Conference Day 2

Time Event Location Time Event Location 8:00 am - 8:00 pm Registration and Information, sponsored by BIG & Digital Sheraton: Elgin Breakfast on your own Scotiabank IMAX Theatre and 8:30 am - 9:00 am Walk to Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 8:00 am - 8:00 pm Film Rehearsals Ontario Science Ctr Omnimax 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Registration and Information, sponsored by BIG & Digital Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 8:30 am - 11:00 am Board Meeting (working breakfast meeting) Sheraton: Wentworth 9:00 am - 9:50 am Secret Ocean 3D (Digital 3D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre Sheraton: Committee 11:00 am - 12:45 pm • Conference • Kenora 9:50 am - 10:40 am Deepsea Challenge 3D (Digital 3D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre Meetings: • Marketing & Member Services • Huron 10:40 am - 11:30 am Aviation: The Invisible Highway (Digital 2D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre Sheraton: 11:30 am - 1:15 pm Euromax Meeting* (by invitation only) TBA Committee • Technical • Kenora 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm Alternate Content Special Interest Group Meeting* Meetings: • Lifelong Learning • Wentworth 11:30 am - 1:15 pm TBA • Professional Development • Dufferin (by invitation only) 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm 3D Film Interest Group* (by invitation only) Sheraton: Simcoe 11:30 am - 1:15 pm Lunch on your own Giant Screen Industry 101: Best Practices Sheraton: 1:15 pm - 1:30 pm Films in Production (15/70) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm • Exhibitor-Focused Session • Dominion North • Filmmaker-Focused Session • Dominion South 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm Giant Screen Wow Moments and Storytelling Session (15/70) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Distributors’ Interest Group* (by invitation only) Sheraton: Wentworth 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Walk to Sheraton 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm New Members and First-Timers Reception (by invitation only) Sheraton: City Hall 3:00 pm - 6:30 pm Registration and Information, sponsored by BIG & Digital Sheraton: Lower Concourse 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm GSCA Audience Research Survey Results Presentation Sheraton: Osgoode Ballroom Saturday, September 20: Conference Day 1 Professional Development Concurrent Sessions Sheraton: Time Event Location 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm • Mastering the Giant Screen Workflow • Sheraton Hall A • Alternative Content: What’s It All About? • Sheraton Osgoode Ballroom Breakfast on your own 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm Break, sponsored by IMAX Corporation Sheraton: Hall D 7:15 am - 8:00 am Walk to Scotiabank IMAX Theatre Marketing, Merlot, and Martinis Professional Development Session Sheraton: Osgoode Ballroom 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm 8:00 am - 11:45 am Registration and Information, sponsored by BIG & Digital Scotiabank IMAX Theatre (formerly Wake Up to Great Mktg.), sponsored by IMAX Corporation 8:00 am - 8:35 am Soldiers’ Stories (Digital 3D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 6:30 pm Walk to Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 8:35 am - 9:10 am Watermelon Magic 3D (Digital 3D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 6:45 pm - 7:30 pm MacGillivray Freeman Films Sponsored Reception Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 9:10 am - 9:55 am Antarctica 3D: On the Edge (Digital 3D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre Humpback Whales digital fine cut screening, sponsored by 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 9:55 am - 10:40 am Walking With Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D (Digital 3D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre MacGillivray Freeman Films 10:40 am - 11:30 am Tiny Giants 3D (Digital 3D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 8:30 pm Evening on your own 11:30 am - 11:45 am Walk to Sheraton Monday, September 22: Please note there are both flat screen presentations at the Scotiabank IMAX Theatre and dome 11:45 am - 1:15 pm Members Meeting and Lunch, sponsored by National Geographic Sheraton: Dominion Ballroom screen presentations at the Ontaria Science Centre throughout the day. The first part of the day’s schedule is listed 1:15 pm - 1:30 pm Walk to Scotiabank IMAX Theatre below by screen type. Trade show exhibitors may set up 8:00 am - 4:00 pm in the Sheraton Osgoode Ballroom. 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Registration and Information, sponsored by BIG & Digital Scotiabank IMAX Theatre Monday, September 22: Conference Day 3 • FLAT SCREEN PRESENTATIONS 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm Panama Canal 3D: A Land Divided A World United (Digital 3D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre Time Event Location 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm The Great Apes 3D (Digital 3D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre Breakfast on your own 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Films in Production (Digital) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 8:30 am Walk to Scotiabank IMAX Theatre for films on the flat screen 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Projects in Development Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 8:45 am - 3:00 pm Registration and Information, sponsored by BIG & Digital Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 5:30 pm Walk to Sheraton 8:45 am - 9:45 am D-Day: Normandy 1944 (15/70 3D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 6:00 pm Buses depart Sheraton for Reception at Ontario Science Ctr from Richmond entrance 9:45 am - 10:45 am Journey to the South Pacific (15/70 3D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre Ontario Science Centre 6:40 pm Welcome Remarks and Award Announcements Omnimax Theatre 10:45 am - 11:45 am Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (15/70 3D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 7:00 pm Opening Reception, sponsored by IMAX Corporation Ontario Science Centre 11:45 am - 12:45 pm Wonders of the Arctic (15/70 3D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 8:30 pm IMAX Hall of Fame Film Presentation: Chronos OSC Omnimax Theatre 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm Scotiabank delegates: Lunch on your own 9:30 pm Final shuttles depart for Sheraton 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Pandas: The Journey Home (Digital 3D) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 3:00 pm Walk to Sheraton * These special interest groups are privately held meetings and are by invitation only. Special interest group meetings are run See “All Delegates” section below for the rest of the day’s schedule and managed by GSCA members; however, they are not official GSCA groups.

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Monday, September 22: Conference Day 3 • DOME PRESENTATIONS Time Event Location Breakfast on your own 7:30 am Shuttles begin departing Sheraton for dome films at OSC from Richmond entrance 8:00 am - 3:00 pm Registration and Information, sponsored by BIG & Digital Ontario Science Centre 8:00 am - 9:00 am Mysteries of the Unseen World Ontario Science Ctr Omnimax 9:00 am - 10:00 am Pandas: The Journey Home Ontario Science Ctr Omnimax 10:00 am - 11:00 am Wonders of the Arctic Ontario Science Ctr Omnimax Ontario Science Centre: 11:00 am - 12:45 pm The Digital Pathway for Domes Session (includes lunch) Telus Room 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm Island of Lemurs: Madagascar Ontario Science Ctr Omnimax 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm Journey to the South Pacific Ontario Science Ctr Omnimax 2:45 pm - 3:30 pm D-Day: Normandy 1944 Ontario Science Ctr Omnimax 3:30 pm Final shuttles depart from OSC to return to Sheraton Sheraton Centre See “All Delegates” section below for the rest of the day’s schedule 123 Queen St. W, Toronto 416-361-1000 Monday, September 22: Conference Day 3: ALL DELEGATES GSCA conference hotel and site Time Event Location of professional development 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Registration and Information, sponsored by BIG & Digital Sheraton: Osgoode Ballroom Foyer sessions, committee meetings, trade show, member lunch, and 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Trade Show with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres Sheraton: Osgoode Ballroom special interest group meetings 8:00 pm - 12:00 am Trade Show tear down (exhibitors only) Ontario Science Centre 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm GSCA Board Meeting (working dinner) Sheraton: Willow East, 22nd Floor 770 Don Mills Road, Toronto 8:00 pm Dinner on your own 416-696-1000 9:30 pm - 1:00 am GSCA Party, sponsored by FotoKem Hard Rock Café Site for the opening reception on Sept. 20 and dome Tuesday, September 23: Conference Day 4 screenings on Sept. 22 Time Event Location Cineplex Scotiabank Breakfast on your own IMAX Theatre Shuttles depart Sheraton for technical session; will run 259 Richmond St W, Toronto, 8:15 am from Richmond entrance between Sheraton and Queensway theatre throughout the day 416-368-5600 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Registration and Information, sponsored by BIG & Digital Cineplex Cinemas Queensway Site for flat screen film presentations on 9:00 am - 12:45 pm Technical Session, sponsored by Christie & Electrosonic Cineplex Cinemas Queensway Sept. 20-22 and GS • Laser Landscape Panel Toronto • Laser Demonstration presented by Christie, Electrosonic Wow Moments session • Dolby Atmos Sound Presentation Cineplex Cinemas • Bringing Back Our Wide Shots • High Frame Rate Demo Queensway • 3D for the Giant Screen 1025 The Queensway, Etobicoke • UFOTOG 416-503-0424 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch on your own Site for the technical session and film screenings on Sept. 23. 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Star Spangled Banner: Anthem of Liberty (Digital 3D) Cineplex Cinemas Queensway Cineplex Queensway is 13.6 km 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm Antarctica’s Penguin Emperors (Digital 3D) Cineplex Cinemas Queensway (8.5 miles) southwest of the 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Dark Universe (Digital 3D) Cineplex Cinemas Queensway Sheraton via the Gardner Expressway W. 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Remnants (Digital 2D) Cineplex Cinemas Queensway 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm Navy Legend of the Golden Dolphin (Digital 3D) Cineplex Cinemas Queensway Hard Rock Café 279 Yonge St, Toronto 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm The Life of Trees (Digital 3D) Cineplex Cinemas Queensway 416-362-3636 6:15 pm Final shuttles return to Sheraton GSCA party on Sept. 22

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Plenary Sessions Giant screen veterans share their thoughts on Presenters: Stephen Low, The Stephen Low successfully replicated at other theaters. creating memorable giant screen experiences. Company; Greg MacGillivray, MacGillivray Join moderator Rich Swietek of Friendly Giant Screen 101: Best Practices Attendees will hear from a cinematographer, a Freeman Films; Toni Myers, IMAX Corporation Giant Marketing as we toast exhibitors sharing Friday, September 19, 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm location sound recordist/designer, a picture Three acclaimed giant screen directors will their most successful ideas of the past year. Sheraton: Dominion North and South editor, and a writer. Each panelist will be present sequences from films that they think Members of the audience will have the Moderator: Diane Carlson, Pacific invited to show clips from some of their films best illustrate the special nature of the giant opportunity to contribute to the dialog as Science Center (on a large 3D monitor). In addition, IMAX screen film experience. Each will choose one well. Join us for what promises to be a Veteran content creators, new filmmakers, and Corporation will provide a demo of their new “wow moment” from their own library and one happy hour of marketing inspiration and production staff, as well as exhibitors—in fact, 4K lightweight digital camera, recently used from each of the other presenters. Discussion meeting colleagues. all industry professionals—are invited to on Island of Lemurs: Madagascar and will focus on how these indelible moments Enhance the Visitor Experience, Increase participate in this launch program to the Transformers 4: Age of Extinction. The were created and how storytelling for this Attendance and Gain Friends Through annual conference. This session is discussion will be co-moderated by first time format is unique. Community Partnerships consistently one of the top-rated programs. giant screen directors, Christian Fry (Air Learn from Kim Cavendish how the Museum This year’s program will allow for more Racers) and Daniel Ferguson (Jerusalem). GSCA Audience Research of Discovery and Science created a discussion and questions from the audience Exhibitor-Focused Session Survey Results Polynesian Culture Festival for the opening of than ever before. Industry veterans will be Sheraton: Dominion North Sunday, September 21, 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Journey to the South Pacific 3D through encouraged to share ideas from the floor and Presenters: Diane Carlson, Pacific Science Center; Sheraton: Osgood Ballroom community partners. Presenter: Rich Swietek, Friendly Giant Marketing the environment will be warm and welcoming Paul Wild, IMAX Theatre in the Royal BC Museum; A Creative Facebook Contest from Down Under to newcomers. Toby Mensforth, Event Network The GSCA has undertaken a major research Learn how Mark Bretherton of Sydney, initiative in 2014, spanning 10 countries and The session’s first hour will feature an Diane Carlson from Pacific Science Center will Australia, used a Facebook contest to more than 1,500 data points from audience engaging and informative overview of the moderate the session and set the stage for an generate interest in new potential IMAX members who’ve experienced a giant screen giant screen industry and its evolution. informative afternoon that is warm and theater-goers and captured a database to film in the last three months. Come to this welcoming to first-time attendees as well as mine for the future. After a break, the participants will have the session for an in-depth overview of the most option to join one of two concurrent sessions. veterans. She welcomes audience participation and questions. interesting and exciting findings. Confirm your #findthepanda in Boston One session will focus on giant screen thinking on certain topics. Rethink your See how the Museum of Science used Paul Wild from Victoria’s IMAX Theatre at the production and postproduction techniques position on others. We have surprising results costume characters with social media to Royal BC Museum will share his experience in and tips from a distinguished panel of to share and discuss with those who make generate interest and audience. directors, producers, camera operators, presenting both film and digital programming films, distribute them, and program them. editors, sound designers, and production in the same day with his projectors on a rail How D-Day: Normandy 1944 Connected supervisors. Following the panel discussion system. Learn about the technical and Marketing, Merlot, and Martinis a Theater with a Community and Q&A, there will be a demonstration of logistical aspects of this equipment usage, (Formerly Wake Up to Great Marketing Ideas) Jackie Mollet will discuss how this film brought IMAX’s new digital cameras by IMAX including minimizing the transition time Sunday, September 21, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm the Saint Louis Science Center together with technicians. between each technology. Sheraton: Osgood Ballroom an amazing community of people. Sponsored by IMAX Corporation The other concurrent session will explore best Toby Mensforth draws on his extensive giant The Digital Pathway for Domes practices in theater marketing, business, and screen theater and earned-revenue Moderator: Rich Swietek, Friendly Giant Monday, September 22, 11:00 am - 12:45 pm operations. There will be ample opportunity experience to delve into the financial aspects Marketing Ontario Science Centre: Telus Room for interaction with audience members. of theater operations. How to maximize Presenters: Kim Cavendish, Museum of Moderator: Paul Fraser, Blaze Digital Cinema Works revenue, lower costs and set budgets? How Discovery and Science; Mark Bretherton, IMAX Technology Panel: Brian Bonnick, IMAX Filmmaker-Focused Session many shows a day to program? How to Theatres Australia; Corinna Graham, Museum of Science, Boston; Jackie Mollet, Saint Louis Corporation; Ed Lantz, Vortex Immersion Media Sheraton: Dominion South maximize concessions revenue? Tips from the Titans: Giant Screen Veterans Share Science Center Theater Panel: Jon Loos, Washington Pavilion of Arts and Sciences; Steen Bjerre, Tycho Brahe Tips for Success Giant Screen Wow Moments and The popular “Wake Up to Great Marketing Moderators: Christian Fry, director of Air Racers; Planetarium; Jackie Mollet, Saint Louis Storytelling Ideas” session has a new time slot and a new Science Center Daniel Ferguson, director of Jerusalem name this year. But as always it will deliver the Presenters: James Neihouse, director of Sunday, September 21, 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm Filmmaker Panel: Jonathan Barker, SK Films; photography; Brian Eimer, ImagesInSound; Scotiabank IMAX Theatre most ideas per minute—ideas you can put to Greg MacGillivray, MacGillivray Freeman Films; Myles Connolly, 360-Media Moderator: Daniel Ferguson, director of Jerusalem work for your theater. Ideas from past Michael Daut, Evans & Sutherland sessions—like a kids’ film review—have been

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Very few giant screen dome theaters have capabilities needed in the booth, target Live Surgery: How do you mend a broken often overwhelming choices: Film or digital? replaced their film systems with digital audience, marketing, and any ancillary heart? Televise your bypass surgery! The 2D or 3D? What camera for what task? Digital (outside of Japan). Why is that? What is the benefits/opportunities. This session will be Science Center of Iowa has hosted “Live from intermediate or contact print from original pathway to digital for the giant screen structured to allow for ample time for Q&A. the Heart” for the past four years, and Kent negative? At which resolution should I scan? Maahs will update everyone on a fascinating film-based domes? Only two giant screen Cable/Satellite TV Programming: “So I can How much sharpening do I need? and educational new use of your theater domes have converted to DCI digital so far. show cable TV shows on my new digital This session will unpack the workflow and classrooms. Some have replaced their film projectors with projection system. Do I want to?” Kim Nickels choices facing the GS filmmaker in an easily fulldome systems, and a few other domes will talk about the pros and cons of the Putnam Mastering the Giant understandable way. Using examples from have added digital flat screen 3D systems Museum’s experience in Davenport, Iowa. recent releases, directors, producers, and while continuing to use their 15/70 film Screen Workflow Concerts: The 50- and 60-somethings can be postproduction supervisors explain why they projectors. This session will explore the current Sheraton: Hall A made particular choices to ensure the best obstacles, options, and opportunities for a nostalgic bunch for sure. There are some Moderator: Christian Fry, Pretend Entertainment great concerts available on DCP, from The quality and why in some cases they might do film-based giant screen domes in their digital Panelists: Sean MacLeod Philips, ASC, DOP of it differently next time. The session will bring transition. To fully address the issues, there Doors to Led Zeppelin, that really draw the Mysteries of the Unseen World; Rick Gordon, RPG crowds. Kim Nickels, formerly of the Putnam to light the work of the GSCA P3W will be three consecutive panel discussions, Productions; Andrew Oran, FotoKem; Alexis (Production and Postproduction Workflow) Museum, will explain more. Cadorette-Vignau, Post Production Supervisor on each one including representatives from Task Force of the Technical Committee in Jerusalem different functions within the industry: (1) Local Filmmaker Events: Marbles Kids creating a working document for the industry dome theaters (2) technology experts, and Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina, is hosting With the recent explosion of digital giant outlining common production and (3) film producers/distributors. premiere screenings for local filmmakers. Tim screen production and postproduction tools, postproduction pipelines. Hazlehurst will talk about how he is making producers and distributors are confronted with Concurrent Sessions DCPs for these filmmakers and how the Sunday, September 21, 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm screenings are used to promote his theater. Sheraton (rooms for each session listed below) Kids’ Programming: Young families are the core of museum visitation, so content is Alternative Content: specifically targeted for the youngest What’s It All About? moviegoers to draw them to the theater and Sheraton: Osgood Ballroom sell the giant screen experience. Marbles Kids Moderators: Paul Fraser, Blaze Digital Cinema Museum created a successful package for Works; Kim Nickels families to enjoy a first giant screen Presenters: Kim Nickels; Tim Hazlehurst, Marbles experience … and more. Katy Burgwyn from Kids Museum; Katy Burgwyn, Marbles Kids Marbles Kids Museum will break down the Museum; Chris Loynd, Maritime Aquarium at elements of what worked and what didn’t. Norwalk; Kent Maahs, Science Center of Iowa; Chris Hurtubise, COSI Video Gaming: “Everybody was Kung Fu The words “alternative content” are being fighting big time, playing the Kung Fu Panda heard more and more in our industry as video game to promote the IMAX® movie. The exhibitors search for ways to supplement idea of playing Xbox® on our giant screen with traditional revenue streams as well as make 10,000-watt sound effects drew major media the most of their new digital projection coverage.” Chris Loynd, Marketing Director of systems’ capabilities. Hear from a panel of The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, will your peers about their experiences with explain more. several emerging programming options: Hollywood Reperatory Films: COSI in Hollywood repertory films, live streaming Columbus, Ohio, has two years of experience events, cable/satellite TV programming, local running a summer movie series featuring filmmaker events, kids’ programming, and Hollywood reperatory content. Chris Hurtubise video gaming. Each panelist will discuss how will give the inside scoop on this type of the content fits into their daily schedule, the alternative programming and what they are licensing process, content format/technical learning from this experience.

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Sponsored by Christie and Electrosonic Tuesday, September 23 n 9:00 am – 12:45 pm n Cineplex Cinemas Queensway

Laser Landscape Panel The GSCA Technical Committee Panelists: Martin Howe, TEQ4; Paul Fraser, commissioned a series of digital camera Blaze Digital Cinema Works; Greg Niven, LIPA evaluation tests, the first of which were shot (Laser Illuminated Projector Assocation) this summer in Los Angeles. Thanks to many dedicated industry professionals, this session Christie Laser Projection Demo will compare footage from five of the top The ultimate Clips from educational documentary films as digital camera systems on the market today, well as Hollywood blockbusters will be along with a 15-perf/65mm film camera. The projected at over 90,000 lumens (brightness) digital cameras tested were the Sony F-65, and 4K resolution by the Christie 6p laser RED Dragon, RED Epic, Arri Alexa XT (open 3D laser cinema projection system—which delivers more than gate), and the Canon C500. three times the light output compared to High-Frame-Rate Demo current lamp-based digital projectors. Frame rate refers to the number of images experience Dolby Atmos Presentation displayed by a projector within one second, With Dolby Atmos®, filmmakers can position and 24 frames per second (FPS) is still the and move sounds precisely anywhere in a standard—almost a century since the advent theater—even overhead—to heighten the of “talkies.” High-frame-rate (HFR) movies realism and impact of every scene. It has record and play visuals at twice or more View the Christie 6P laser projection demo at GSCA over 10 times the resolution than 5.1 the rate of that seen in today’s cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Queensway, Toronto | Tuesday, September 23 | 9am-12pm standard sound, enhancing clarity in dialogue meaning less flicker, motion blur, and and music. Dolby Atmos recreates the way stuttered movement. sound behaves in real life and brings that Christie has been leading efforts to take experience to theatres. This demo will 3D HFR digital cinema from concept into For more information after the demo, please contact Electrosonic feature Dolby Atmos-mixed trailers and clips the mass market, working with industry 1.818.333.3604 | [email protected] | electrosonic.com that guarantee to put you in the center of technical partners and the technology’s the action. most celebrated proponent, Avatar director James Cameron. Bringing Back Our Wide Shots Cameron has worked with Christie and other Moderator: James Neihouse, Cinematographer technical partners on this groundbreaking Since its inception, the giant screen’s stock in “proof of concept” footage. Scenes will be trade has been the ability to take the shown back-to-back in 3D at 24, 48, and 60 audience to places they couldn’t or, in some frames per second. Multiple versions will be cases, wouldn’t go. This was accomplished shown of the same takes to demonstrate the through the presentation of pristinely clear, impact of HFR on some of the biggest visual highly detailed images. With the move toward challenges facing cinematographers. digital capture for the giant screen, these traditional wide shots and aerials have suffered.

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3D for the Giant Screen London Eye 4D Experience, Carmen in 3D Moderator: Phil Streather, Principal Large Format and Madam Butterfly 3D. Phil also devised and ran the Advanced 3D: The National The giant screen is celebrated as offering the Stereoscopic Training Programme in the UK in superior, immersive 3D experience above all 2010/2011, funded by Skillset and Sky 3D. other formats. Whether you are a filmmaker, film distributor, or a film exhibitor, we all UFOTOG share a goal to ensure that our giant screens presenter: Douglas Trumbull continue to be the home of premium 3D. UFOTOG is a 12-minute dramatic But is all 3D imagery equal? Why does some demonstration of a new 3D 4K 120 fps 3D make our eyes hurt? What needs to giant screen process called MAGI, written happen in the filmmaking process, both when and directed by Douglas Trumbull. The story shooting and in postproduction, to correct is about a young high-tech entrepreneur and balance the 3D experience? who believes he can photograph a UFO Specially shot material will be post-produced using sophisticated electro-optical using the industry standard Mistika online telescopic systems. finishing system, and the resulting clips will Created in collaboration with Christie Digital reveal the latest tools and techniques. By and Dolby Laboratories, the movie explores a showing both good and bad 3D examples, new form of cinematic language and the session will also leave you, the immersive experience. The MAGI process professional audience of filmmakers, includes stereoscopic photography and distributors, and theater managers, better projection in 4K resolution at 120 frames per equipped to watch and enjoy 3D with a second, projected at 14 foot lamberts. The critical eye. The session perfectly feeds into aspect ratio is 17:9. The movie has been a bigger picture of how the giant screen mixed in Dolby Atmos and can also run in 7.1 industry will, or at least has the potential or 5.1 stereo. to, continue to deliver the definitive 3D experience. An important aspect of the process is the ability to shoot 4K 120 fps stereoscopic with The session will be led by Phil Streather. Phil a single camera, thus facilitating a broad was the producer of Bugs! 3D and was the range of content, and the content can be Stereo Supervisor on Meerkats 3D and Tiny projected by a single Christie Mirage 4KLH Giants 3D. Other 3D credits include The projector or dual 6P system.

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Antarctica 3D: This family friendly film was shot on location Rendered in 4K and released for the first time the world. Blending multiple cinematographic On the Edge in Antarctica, the southernmost region on the in 3D for giant screens, the American Museum techniques, including animation, CGI and Presented in digital 3D planet. The story follows a colony of Emperor of Natural History’s latest space show Dark stunning live-action images in 3D, D-Day 3D: on the flat screen Penguins as they emerge from the sea and Universe celebrates the pivotal discoveries that Normandy 1944 brings this monumental event Release Date: Fall 2014 begin their long march 60 miles inland during have led us to greater knowledge of the to the world’s largest screens for the first time Formats: 2D, 3D, DCI- the cold winter in a race to provide food for structure and history of the universe—and to ever. Audiences of all ages, including new compliant Digital, their newly hatched chicks. Presented in new frontiers for exploration. Narrated by generations, will discover from a new IMAX Digital stunning 3D, this true-life tale will warm the Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dark Universe whisks perspective how this landing changed the Length: 20:00 and 40:00 hearts of audiences as they witness the audiences out of the Milky Way galaxy, drops world. Exploring history, military strategy, Producer: Oceans 8 Films, DQBD Films and hardships and sacrifices of these curious them alongside a parachute descending science, technology and human values, the Giant Screen Films creatures in their fascinating triumph over through Jupiter’s atmosphere, and brings them film will educate and appeal to all. Narrated Distributor: Giant Screen Films and D3D Cinema the elements. all the way to the afterglow of the Big Bang by Tom Brokaw, D-Day 3D: Normandy 1944 Contact: Tom Rooney, [email protected] while revealing the breakthroughs that have pays tribute to those who gave their lives With a reputation as cold, forbidding, and Aviation: The led astronomers to confront two great cosmic for our freedom… A duty of memory, a duty remote, Antarctica can also be a fragile place, Invisible Highway mysteries: dark matter and dark energy. In of gratitude. home to an incredible variety of life along its Presented in digital 2D stunningly detailed scenes based on authentic edges. Join National Geographic explorer Jon on the flat screen scientific data—including an astonishing Deepsea Challenge 3D Bowermaster as he and his team travel along Release Date: Early 2015 look at our universe in 3D and innovative DEEP. Presented in digital 3D DANGEROUS. the continent’s frozen coastline in Antarctica Formats: 2D, 15/70, visualizations of unobservable dark matter— DETERMINED. on the flat screen 3D: On The Edge. The adventurers explore by IMAX Digital Dark Universe explores a new age of cosmic JamE S CamEron’S Release Date: January 2015 sea kayak, ice-worthy sailboat, and on foot to Length: 47:00 discovery and reveals the mysteries that have Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, gain an up-close look and attempt to better Producer: Terwilliger been brought to light so far. Dark Universe DCI-compliant Digital, understand just how the seventh continent is Productions was released for fulldome digital display in IMAX Digital changing—and in some parts changing very Distributor: To be determined November 2013, and was developed by the Length: 38:55 Contact: Brian Terwilliger, Producer: Beyond fast—in part due to a warming ocean. Meet American Museum of Natural History, New York [email protected] Productions, Earthship scientists and the wildlife they study up-close (www.amnh.org), in collaboration with the Productions, National Geographic and learn about the history of exploration and Aviation: The Invisible Highway is a story about California Academy of Sciences, San how the airplane has changed the world. Distributor: National Geographic Studios the continent’s future. From its place anchoring Francisco, and GOTO INC, Tokyo, Japan. Contact: Mark Katz, [email protected] the bottom of the globe, Antarctica might seem Filmed in 18 countries across all 7 continents, too frozen to have any impact on the rest of it renews our appreciation for one of the most D-Day: Normandy Deepsea Challenge follows the dramatic story the planet. But the very fact that it is extraordinary and awe-inspiring aspects of the 1944 of Academy Award-winning director James Cameron’s personal odyssey as he undertakes constantly changing—the sea around it freezing modern world. The film is produced and Presented in 15/70 3D flat and thawing every year—makes it the planet’s directed by Brian J. Terwilliger (One Six Right), screen and 15/70 dome an expedition of historic proportions and beating heart, its rhythm intimately influencing narrated by Harrison Ford, and features an Release Date: March 2014 extreme personal danger to the ocean’s the earth’s weather, ocean currents and climate. original score by Academy Award-winning Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, deepest point. composer James Horner. DCI-compliant Digital, Antarctica’s IMAX Digital, Dome- The Great Apes 3D Penguin Emperors Dark Universe customized 15/70 Presented in digital 3D Length: 43:00 on the flat screen Presented in digital 3D Presented in digital 3D Release Date: October 2014 on the flat screen DARK on the flat screen Producer: N3D LAND Films UNIVERSE Release Date: Formats: 3D, DCI-compliant Release Date: 2014 October 1, 2014 Distributor: 3D Entertainment Distribution Formats: Digital Formats: 3D, DCI-compliant 3D 3D, DCI-compliant Contact: Francois Mantello, [email protected] Digital Length: 40:00 Digital, 2K Digital June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of Length: 25:15 Producer: VisionQuest Length: 37:02 and 20:00 World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, NARRATED BY Producer/Distributor: Entertainment Producer: MBC NEIL deGRASSE TYSON Dark Universe was developed by the American Museum of Natural few know in detail exactly why and how, from History, New York (www.amnh.org), in collaboration with the California Distributor: nWave Pictures Distributor: K2 Communications Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, and GOTO INC, Tokyo, Japan. American Museum of Natural the end of 1943 through August 1944, this Distribution Contact: Mark Kresser, History region became the most important location in Contact: Janine Baker, [email protected] [email protected] Contact: Matt Heenan, [email protected]

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nWave Pictures Distribution presents a digitally Island of Lemurs: NARRAted by Jeff CoRWIN enhanced version of The Great Apes 3D, Madagascar bringing us face to face with some of the Presented in 15/70 3D on world’s rarest primates. Featuring the flat screen and 15/70 on chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans and the the dome magnificent mountain gorillas, The Great Apes Release Date: April 4, 2014 3D captures the emotional connection we all Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, experience when encountering such IMAX Digital extraordinary creatures. This is the mesmerizing Length: 40:00 odyssey of Holly Carroll, a passionate zoologist Producer/distributor: What Exhibitors Say… who explores the dense rainforests and remote IMAX Corporation and Warner Brothers Contact: Gina Glen, [email protected] jungles of Africa and Indonesia to study the “A breathtaking experience and lives of these intelligent and curious animals. Madagascar 3D is the story of Madagascar’s Walking in the footsteps of her lifelong heroes, weirdly wonderful lemurs and one woman’s great box office results!” Dr. Dian Fossey and Dr. Jane Goodall, Holly heroic quest to save them from extinction. Julie La Roche, Montreal Science Center also highlights some of the challenges the Starring adorable, dazzling creatures never Montreal, Quebec (Canada) great apes face in their increasingly threatened before seen in IMAX, Madagascar 3D is a habitats. A fascinating story of discovery and journey to the most exotic corner of our planet “The film was particularly strong with our an unforgettable adventure. where humanity, wildlife, and science forge an spring school field trips, so we plan to offer unforgettable adventure. it again in the fall.” Humpback Whales Charlotte brohi, Houston Museum of Natural Science Sponsored fine cut Journey to the screening in digital on South Pacific Houston, Texas (USA) the flat screen Presented in 15/70 3D on Release Date: February 13, the flat screen and 15/70 “Our No. 1 film for the summer, and our 2015 on the dome highest guest satisfaction ratings.” Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, Release Date: November 27, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX 2013 don Walker, tennessee Aquarium Digital, Dome-customized Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, Chattanooga, Tennessee (USA) 15/70 IMAX Digital, Dome- Length: 40:00 customized 15/70 “Galapagos has proven to be a film for all Producer/Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films Length: 40:00 ages and audiences. Since the premiere Contact: Bob Harman, [email protected] Producer: MacGillivray Freeman Films in partnership with IMAX Corporation last February, it has been the most popular MacGillivray Freeman’s Humpback Whales is movie in our theater.” the incredible story of nature’s most fascinating Distributor: IMAX Entertainment and MacGillivray marine mammal—the humpback. Captured for Freeman Films Peter-bak Larsen,tycho brahe Planetarium the first time with IMAX® 3D cameras, the film Contact: Bob Harman at MFF, Copenhagen (Denmark) [email protected]; takes audiences on a captivating odyssey into Thomas Wyss at IMAX, [email protected] their mysterious world for a close-up look at how they communicate, sing, feed, play and Narrated by Academy Award® winner Cate take care of their young. Found in every ocean Blanchett, Journey to the South Pacific takes on Earth, humpbacks were nearly driven to moviegoers on an IMAX® 3D adventure to the remote tropical islands of West Papua, where extinction 50 years ago, but today they are [email protected] | nWave.com | /nWavePicturesdistribution making a remarkable comeback. Join a team life flourishes above and below the sea. Join of researchers in Alaska, Hawaii and the Jawi, a young island boy, on a journey aboard /nWavePictures | /nWave Kingdom of Tonga as they attempt to unlock the Kalabia, as he encounters whale sharks, the secrets of the humpback—and celebrate sea turtles, and giant manta rays. Home to Galapagos.nWave.com the return of these giants of the sea. Presented more than 2,000 species of sea life, this by Pacific Life. exotic locale features the most diverse marine nWave® is a registered trademark of nWave Pictures SA/NV - © 2014 nWave Pictures SA/NV – All Rights Reserved IMAX is a registered trademark of IMAX Corporation - Photo credit: Colossus Productions Ltd.

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ecosystem on earth. An uplifting story of YOU WON’T BELIEVE YOUR EYES. Mysteries of the hope and celebration, Journey to the South Unseen World Pacific highlights the importance of living in Presented in 15/70 on balance with the ocean planet we call the dome screen home. An IMAX Entertainment and Release Date: November 1,

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ENTERTAINMENT PREsENTs “MYsTERIEs OF THE UNsEEN WORLD” NARRATED bY FOREsT WHITAKER MUsIC bY PAUL HAsLINGER PRODUCTION DEsIGN sTEVE sUCHMAN EDITED bY JONATHAN sHAW, A.C.E DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY sEAN MACLEOD PHILLIPs ExECUTIVE PRODUCER JAKE EbERTs PRODUCED bY LIsA TRUITT PRODUCED bY JINI DURR WRITTEN bY FREDRICK RICHARDs DIRECTED bY LOUIs sCHWARTZbERG DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX nominated filmmaker Greg MacGillivray and MysteriesUnseenWorld.coM Stephen Judson, and produced by Shaun Digital, Dome-customized MacGillivray and Mark Krenzien, written by 15/70, Fulldome digital Stephen Judson with a musical score by Length: 39:02 Steve Wood. Producer: National Geographic Studios, DARK Days End Pictures Distributor: National Geographic Studios The Life of Trees Contact: Mark Katz, [email protected] UNIVERSE Presented in digital 3D on the flat screen Mysteries of the Unseen World will allow Release Date: February 7, viewers to see things not visible to the naked 2014 eye, thanks to the film’s innovative use of Formats: 2D, 3D, Fulldome high-speed and time-lapse photography, Digital electron microscopy, and nanotechnology. The Length: 33:00 and 24:00 audience will be taken into the microscopic 3D Producer: Softmachine world once reserved only for scientists to see Distributor: Reef Distribution a whole new universe of things, events, and Narrated by Contact: Daniela Ebeling, [email protected] creatures. Visually stunning and rooted in The Adventures of Dolores and Mike—In cutting-edge research, Mysteries of the NEIL deGRASSE TYSON The Life of Trees a cheeky ladybug called Unseen World will be available in 3D and 2D, Dolores and a quirky firefly called Mike take 15/70 and digital formats. the audience on an adventurous journey of exploration into the wondrous world of Naya Legend of the trees. Taking the perspective of insects, the Golden Dolphin The planets, stars, and everything you can fulldome film reveals the magic of the Presented in digital 3D microcosm. On their excursion these two on the flat screen see are less than 5 percent of the universe. creepy-crawlies zip around a tree, and in Release Date: December doing so, playfully learn its secrets: How do 18, 2014 What is the other 95 percent? This fi lm plants get food from the sun? How do they Formats: 2D, 3D, explores pivotal breakthroughs that have led grow? How does water get from the roots to DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX the top of the crown? And how does all this Digital, Fulldome Digital astronomers to confront two great cosmic make life on our earth possible? Fulldome Length: 45:00 release date was 10/20/2012. Producer/Distributor: Magic Factory mysteries: dark matter and dark energy. Productions Inc. Contact: Jonathon Kay, [email protected] Naya Legend Of The Golden Dolphin takes you on an exciting adventure into the lives of For leasing information, Trailer and details at: dolphins across the world. With breathtaking contact: Matt Heenan www.amnh.org/GBD cinematography, the incredible beauty and [email protected] Dark Universe was developed by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in TEL: +1 212-769-5131 collaboration with the California Academy of MOBILE: +1 917-975-8322 Sciences, San Francisco, and GOTO INC, Tokyo, Japan.

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staggering you-are-there adventures of the Through the magic of 3D and IMAX cameras, dolphins are documented in the oceans of audiences everywhere can take a mind- South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, blowing trip through one of the seven wonders Mozambique, Australia, Bimini, Hawaii, and in of the modern world in Panama Canal 3D: A the Amazon River of Brazil in this Land Divided A World United, revealing not extraordinary 3D documentary. Predators only its vast scope, but plunging down into hunt them, pollution of their environment the locks and mechanical operations, endangers them, but these intelligent beings boarding the giants sailing the Canal, gliding continue to survive as the guardians of the airborne over the entire country, the Panama sea. The film is narrated by a wonderful cast, railway, exploring by native canoe, discovering including Kate Winslet, Gerard Butler, the unexpected tropical rain forest beauty and Quvenzhane Wallis, Owen Wilson, Megan Fox, wildlife. The film sweeps from the days when Ellen Page, Julian Lennon, Diego Luna, Conquistadores struggled through a water- Cheech Marin, Whoopi Goldberg, Daryl soaked quagmire to the 19th-Century French Hannah, Isabella Rossellini, and James canal-digging debacle to the American Franco. Naya Legend Of The Golden Dolphin engineering achievement that revolutionized has an amazing sound track featuring the shipping and tropical medicine. It’s also about music of The Rolling Stones (“Beast Of the visionary present, documenting efforts by Burden”), John Lennon (“Imagine”), The Panama to expand the 100-year-old waterway Everly Brothers (“All I Have To Do Is Dream”) to accommodate post-panamax ships. It K.D. Lang (“Constant Craving”) and Iz concludes with a fusion of old and new (“Somewhere Over The Rainbow”). For the Panama, its skyscrapers, its culture, a rising very first time in cinema, Director and economic nerve of Central America. Narrated Producer Jonathon Kay brings to the screen by Morgan Freeman. this enchanting film about nature’s most 15

wonderful miracles. Copyright Jonathon Kay & NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PRESENTS Pandas: The Magic Factory Productions Inc. 2014 All Journey Home Rights Reserved. Presented in digital 3D on the flat screen, 15/70 on the dome Panama Canal 3D: Release Date: May 1, 2014 A Land Divided Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, A World United DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX

Help More Pandas Survive in the Wild! Text PANDA to 50555 to contribute $10 to Panda Habitat Conservation. Details at ngpandafi lm.com. Digital, Dome-customized Presented in digital 3D NGpa NDafiLm.COm on the flat screen 15/70, Fulldome Release Date: TBD Length: 36:10 Formats: 3D, 15/70, Producer: National Geographic Studios and DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Oxford Scientific Digital, Dome-customized Distributor: National Geographic Studios 15/70, Fulldome Digital Contact: Mark Katz, [email protected] Length: 41:00 Join us as we travel to the mystical Wolong Producer: Large Screen Cinema Valley in China and venture behind closed Distributor: To be determined doors at the Research Centre for the Wild Contact: Gordon Bijelonic, Panda. With unprecedented access Oxford [email protected] Scientific Films reveals the secrets of panda breeding and discovers that the Chinese are on the brink of achieving an extraordinary environmental turnaround.

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Remnants Distributor: 3D Entertainment Distribution Presented in digital 2D Contact: Francois Mantello, on the flat screen [email protected] Release Date: Now Available Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of ocean pioneer Formats: 2D, DCI-compliant Jacques Cousteau, has been exploring Earth’s Digital, Fulldome Digital oceans for nearly 70 years. Now, with Length: 35:15 revolutionary equipment, Cousteau brings to Producer: Grant Wakefield/ Sky-Skan Europe GmbH the giant screen this breakthrough look at a Distributor: Grant secret world within the ocean that is perhaps Wakefield / Sky-Skan Europe GmbH and seeking the biggest story of all—that the smallest life additional distribution in the sea is the mightiest force on which we Contact: Grant Wakefield, [email protected]; all depend. Jean-Michel Cousteau guides us Glenn Smith, [email protected] through a new world, too small to be seen by the naked eye, in a way his father could have Before the invention of the written word, in one of the longest cultural developments in history, only imagined. He brings us face-to-face with the people of the Neolithic civilization of its mysterious inhabitants and transports us Europe constructed ever more complex stone to the depths of this breathtaking marine monuments. Their reasons for doing so are environment to better understand our own. unclear to this day, and their people have Secret Ocean will leave audiences in awe of vanished largely without trace. Presented in 2K the beauty and diversity of the oceans—the digital widescreen, and set only to an original source of all life on our planet—and inspire 5.1 score by Tangerine Dream member an even greater desire to protect what they Thorsten Quaeschning, Remnants utilizes have seen for the first time, or perhaps highly stylized motion controlled time-lapse to re-discovered.

explore their extraordinary achievements, ® Academy Award Winner & Military Veteran MICKEY ROONEY — Introduces — Soldiers’ Stories capture the austere beauty of these THE WORLD’S OLDEST 3D FILM

100 TH Anniversary of World War 1 “Megalithic” sites, suggest rationales for their Featuring Original Restored 3D Images From 1914-1918 Presented in digital 3D being, and pose an important question for our on the flat screen SOLDIERS’ Release Date: July 28, 2014 WAR FROM THE times. History has proven no civilization can SOLDIER’S POINT OF VIEW TOLD BY REAL last indefinitely. Is it not unlikely we shall share stories VETERANS Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, the same fate? The available principal release DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized

versions, both with 5.1 audio, are: 2K DCP ——— ——— from——— — — — ACADEMY AWARD WINNING PRODUCER NICHOLAS REED 15/70 PRESENTS AN ™ KALLISTI MEDIA ORIGINAL 3D FILM OF SOLDIERS’ STORIES NARRATION: OSCAR WINNING ACTOR MICKEY ROONEY PRODUCED BY: NICHOLAS REED & JONATHAN KITZEN WRITTEN AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTED BY: JONATHAN KITZEN PRODUCERS: PHILLIP GOLDFINE EDWARD BOSHELL ANDREW BOEMI CO-PRODUCERS: RYAN AZEVEDO GRANT CHEN PIP REED JESSICA HENDERSON STEREOGRAPHIC SOUND (2048 x 858 @ 24fps) 4K FULLDOME (4096 x EDITOR:CHRISTIAN GLAWE EDITOR:DENISE QUESNEL POSTPRODUCTION:EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY & KAJANGA TECHNOLOGIES DESIGN:MATT STEPHANSON AUDIO BY: IMAGES IN SOUND ww1movie.com Length: 29:17 4096 @ 30fps.) Originally photographed Producer/Distributor: Kallisti Media LLC primarily at 4k resolution, customized versions Contact: Nick Reed, [email protected] in other formats (i.e. IMAX Digital) and/or with a shorter running time are available on request. November 11th has many names—Veteran’s, Armistice, and Remembrance Day, to name a Secret Ocean 3D few—but the real and intended context of this Presented in digital 3D very special day has been lost and the on the flat screen memories diminished. Soldiers’ Stories Release Date: March 2015 attempts to give meaning to what the world Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, strives to honor that day by bringing to life, in DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX time for the 100th anniversary of WW1, the Digital, Dome-customized story and struggle of being a soldier. Since 15/70 the last WW1 veteran died a few years ago, Length: 42:00 Soldiers’ Stories is told by the young men who Producer: Ocean Futures Society now fight again in different battlefields—Iraq,

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Afghanistan—but fight the same battle and Tiny Giants 3D Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D film employs a dynamic style of varying share the same experiences of their Presented in digital 3D is an exciting adventure that transports shutter-burst frame rates with stunning forefathers four generations prior. The film on the flat screen audiences back to Cretaceous Alaska. The time-lapse sequences to captivate young and utilizes original 3D images, recordings, music, Release Date: May 2014 main characters in the story are a herd of old audiences alike. Viewers witness the and cutting-edge animation to bring this Formats: 2D, 3D, DCI- large, frilled, plant-eating dinosaurs— elementary scientific concepts of the life cycle important moment in time to the public in compliant Digital, Pachyrhinosaurus. The film follows their of plants, observing their journey from seed to time for the 100th anniversary of WW1. IMAX Digital youngsters, and from the moment they hatch, flower to fruit. When harvest time arrives, Available in 3D, in both print and digital and Length: 40:00 and 20:00 they face predators, weather extremes, and Sylvie must decide if she will share her Producer: BBC Earth dome. The latest version has been updated natural disaster as they fight for survival precious watermelon babies with the world. Distributor: BBC Earth and with animation and a new dynamic sound through the seasons. It’s an epic yet intimate Giant Screen Films Wonders of mix, and the film underwent an extensive Contact: Tom Rooney, [email protected] story, and audiences of all ages will empathize 12-week final restoration pass. with them and their struggles, just as they do the Arctic Tiny Giants 3D reveals the astonishing lives of with animals in contemporary wildlife Presented in 15/70 3D Star-Spangled small animals in a world of giants. Using the documentaries. The film is an immersive 3D on the flat screen and 15/70 Banner: Anthem incredibly immersive power of specialist 3D experience, the characters animated on the dome Release Date: March 6, 2014 of Liberty cameras, audiences will be transported in a throughout, against real backgrounds. It’s the very intimate way into another world and most authentic dinosaur experience ever to be Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, Presented in digital 3D DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX on the flat screen experience the titanic battles these creatures seen on the giant screen. The animals’ bodies face to survive. A chipmunk in a wild wood Digital, Dome-customized Release Date: June 13, and movements have been precisely built up 15/70 2014 and a scorpion mouse in Arizona’s scorched from fossil evidence, and their behavior is Length: 41:46 Formats: DCI-compliant deserts are both forced to grow up fast when derived from paleontology and detailed Producer: Science North & Giant Screen Films Digital 3D, 15/70 2D they find themselves alone for the first time. knowledge of modern animal behavior, giving Distributor: Giant Screen Films Length: 22:00 Facing experienced rivals and huge predators, these creatures an amazing realism. Contact: Tom Rooney, [email protected] Producer: David Clark Inc., Blue Mountain Film our chipmunk hero must find courage to Associates, Maryland Science Center gather enough nuts for winter. Forced out of Watermelon Magic 3D The Arctic has always been a place of mystery, myth, and fascination. The Inuit and their Distributor: Giant Screen Films the family home, our adolescent scorpion Presented in digital 3D Contact: Tom Rooney, [email protected] mouse is then swept away in a flash flood. He on the flat screen predecessors adapted and thrived for thousands of years in what is arguably the The film is a dramatic retelling of one of the needs to learn the skills to survive and lay Release Date: January 2014 claim to his own patch of desert as he Formats: 2D, 3D, DCI- harshest environment on earth. Today, the Arctic most pivotal days (and nights) in American is the focus of intense research. Instead of history, when during the War of 1812 the becomes an adult. Only by using their compliant Digital, IMAX Digital seeking to conquer the north, scientist independence of our young nation hung in the ingenious “superpowers” can our heroes stay The Science of Growing. A Story of Sharing. Length: 30:00 pioneers are searching for answers to some alive and become masters of their universe. BIG + Digital presents a film by Spring Garden Pictures, Starring Sylvie Green Hoffmann and “The Plants” balance. During a ferocious battle, the sight of Director of Photography Chase Bowman, Time-Lapse Plant Photography by Tim Shepherd, Music by Peter Tramo, Edited by Jon Shearburn, Written, Produced and Directed by Richard Power Hoffmann Producer: troubling questions about the impacts of TM WatermelonMagic.com Spring Garden a gigantic American flag flying over Fort Pictures human activities around the world on this McHenry inspired a poem that became our Walking with Dinosaurs: Distributor: BIG & Digital fragile and largely uninhabited frontier. national anthem. Forever after, the flag and Contact: Tina Ratterman, Wonders of the Arctic centers on our ongoing the anthem would be known by the same Prehistoric Planet [email protected] mission to explore and come to terms with the name—the Star-Spangled Banner. Both the 3D Arctic, and the compelling stories of our many creation of the giant flag by Mary Pickersgill International audiences will delight in this Presented in digital 3D nearly wordless burst of color and music that forays into this captivating place will be and her helpers and the writing of the poem on the flat screen interwoven to create a unifying message about draws inspiration from children’s film classic by Francis Scott Key will be featured within Release Date: July 2014 the state of the Arctic today. Underlying all The Red Balloon, enchanted by the story of the epic drama of the British attack on Formats: 2D, 3D, these tales is the crucial role that ice plays in Baltimore and the valiant resistance of its DCI-compliant Digital, young Sylvie in her magical garden. Weaving the northern environment and the changes that citizens and soldiers. IMAX Digital together documentary and fictional elements, are quickly overtaking the people and animals Length: 40:00 and 20:00 Watermelon Magic chronicles a season on the who have adapted to this land of ice and snow. Producer: BBC Earth and Reliance Entertainment family farm as Sylvie grows a patch of in association with Evergreen Studios watermelons to sell at market. Constructed Distributor: BBC Earth and Giant Screen Films entirely from high-resolution still photos, this Contact: Tom Rooney, [email protected]

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(15/70) = will be presented in 15/70 n (D) = will be presented in digital Earthflight 3D takes the audience on an and health of global ecosystems. A fully immersive incredible flight across the world on the wings giant screen experience accompanied by America Wild: U.S. National Parks (D) with the pods and intimately reveal their of birds. Revolutionary aerial techniques and groundbreaking sound design, this program is a Release Date: Late Summer 2015 phenomenal cycle of life. Then, in one of the state-of-the-art 3D cameras fly wingtip to feast for the ears and the eyes. Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, grandest examples of evolution, paleontologists wingtip with some of the world’s most IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70 uncover proof of the whales’ transition from charismatic birds. On their fantastic journeys Humpback Whales (15/70) land to the sea within the fossilized remains Length: 40:00 the birds visit some of the most spectacular Release Date: February 13, 2015 across the oceans and within the blowing Producer/Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman animal events and locations on earth. It is a Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, Films sands of a massive desert tomb. In a totally immersive experience—at times the IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70 Contact: Bob Harman, [email protected] dreamscape of unparalleled beauty, the flocks seem to fly out of the screen. It is a Length: 40:00 blue whales promise to tantalize as the The U.S. National Park Service turns 100 years whole new way of exploring the natural world, Producer/Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films biggest creature ever coming to the world’s old in 2016, marking a major milestone in the as birds time their seasonal journeys to Contact: Bob Harman, [email protected] biggest screens. preservation of America’s wild, pristine spaces. coincide with some of the most intriguing MacGillivray Freeman’s Humpback Whales is events in nature they soon become immersed Iconic landmarks such as Yellowstone, Dream Big: Engineering Wonders the incredible story of nature’s most fascinating Yosemite, the Everglades, and Glacier National in great animal migrations, strange animal marine mammal—the humpback. Captured for of the World (D) Park represent the heritage and spirit of happenings, and awe-inspiring landscapes. In the first time with IMAX® 3D cameras, the film America and make a rich pallet for a giant Release Date: 2016 this thrilling experience the 3D cameras plunge takes audiences on a captivating odyssey into screen film. MacGillivray Freeman’s America Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, the audience into the heart of these natural their mysterious world for a close-up look at Wild: U.S. National Parks (working title) brings IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70 events. Through the eyes of birds, Earthflight how they communicate, sing, feed, play, and Length: 40:00 the magnificence of these landscapes to the 3D shows the spectacles of our planet as take care of their young. Found in every ocean Producer/Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman giant screen and introduces us to compelling never before. on Earth, humpbacks were nearly driven to Films individuals who live in, explore, or work in these extinction 50 years ago, but today they are Contact: Bob Harman, [email protected] great places. With its stunning natural Global Soundscapes— making a remarkable comeback. Join a team of landscapes and powerful personal stories, Dream Big: Engineering Wonders of the World Interactive Theater Show (D) researchers in Alaska, Hawaii, and the Kingdom America Wild will lead audiences on an (working title) will bring today’s greatest Release Date: March 5, 2015 of Tonga as they attempt to unlock the secrets awe-inspiring “off-trail” adventure into the engineering marvels to the giant screen. From Formats: 2D, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, of the humpback—and celebrate the return of mountains and canyons of the great outdoors, record-reaching skyscrapers to bridges soaring Fulldome Digital these giants of the sea. Presented by Pacific Life. revealing a tapestry of natural wonders that, in above the clouds to giant tunnel-boring Length: 40:00 naturalist John Muir’s words, “gives strength to machines navigating beneath our cities, Producer: Foxfire Interactive and Masters Digital In Saturn’s Rings (D) the body and soul.” Produced in partnership audiences will experience the massive scale Distributor: Foxfire Interactive Release Date: 2014 with Brand USA. and the forces of nature that challenge their Contact: Brad Lisle, [email protected] Formats: 2D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX designers. The first giant screen film to focus Experience the synthesis of live performance, Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital Blue Whale Journey 3D (D) specifically on STEM, Dream Big celebrates the cinema, and sound as Foxfire Interactive, Length: 40:00 Release Date: October 2015 engineers who are pushing the limits of Masters Digital, and Purdue University present Producer: SV2 Studios Distributor: BIG & Digital Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant ingenuity and innovation in unexpected, Global Soundscapes, an Interactive Theater Contact: Tina Ratterman, Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, amazing, and forward-thinking ways. Together Show. In Global Soundscapes, dramatic footage [email protected] Fulldome Digital with its extensive outreach programs, the film and awe-inspiring, immersive soundscapes are Fly through space and explore the wonders of Length: 40:00 will explore how we use science and technology enhanced by an onstage presenter/ the universe as science meets art on the giant Producer/Distributor: 3D Nature Films to invent, design, build, and shape our world. demonstrator who takes the audience on a screen. Created from over two million real Contact: Susan Sember, [email protected] Produced in partnership with the American journey into the exciting new field of photographs from space missions and historical Society of Civil Engineers. Soaring in submersibles through the cavernous soundscape ecology. Experience basic sources, all animated to full motion, audiences waters of the deep, a stealth-like operation acoustics through fun interactive activities and will journey from the Big Bang to the awe- Earthflight 3D(D) travels for the first time to the graveyard in the incredible slow motion footage of pulsating inspiring rings of Saturn. In Saturn’s Rings sea of the majestic blue whales. Circling around Release Date: 2015 musical instruments, vibrating vocal cords, and showcases stunning, rarely seen, and newly and through the massive tunnel of ghostly Formats: 2D, 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, slobbering raspberries. Echolocate with bats, processed images from humanity’s space missions, skeletal bones, the untold story of this king IMAX Digital howl with monkeys, and eavesdrop on including Cassini-Huygens, Apollo, Voyagers Length: 40:00 and 20:00 species gives credence to a journey that has bottlenose dolphins. Learn how animal sounds 1 & 2, Hubble, Solar Dynamics Observatory, Producer: BBC Earth and John Downer Productions occurred for over 40 million years. Looking eye occupy unique sonic niches in lush, orchestral Messenger, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and Distributor: BBC Earth and Giant Screen Films to eye with the blues, we see these magnificent soundscapes. Discover how soundscape many more. Leading astrophotographers have Contact: Tom Rooney, [email protected] mammals entertain with their antics, interact ecology can be used to assess the biodiversity contributed 500,000 photographs of the night

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sky, including the highest resolution multi-day humankind’s continuing aspiration to explore time-lapse of the Milky Way ever photographed. the unknown, and provides a visually stunning The result is a groundbreaking visual epic that scenario developed by leading experts on is the closest experience to flying through space exactly how astronauts will get to Mars, live and time possible without a personal there for 2 years, and safely return to earth. spacecraft. Set to powerful music and dense The film will both inspire a new generation of sound design, In Saturn’s Rings appeals to the young people to dream of new horizons in great human yearning to explore, to question, to space, and foster a new appreciation for the discover. Formerly titled Outside In. Fulldome accomplishments of the shuttle program release in early 2015. among an older generation who came to take it for granted. Interstellar (15/70) Release Date: November 7, 2014 Kitty Hawk (D) Formats: 2D, 15/70, IMAX Digital Release Date: Spring 2015 Length: To be determined Formats: 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, Producer/Distributor: Paramount Pictures and Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital Warner Brothers Pictures Length: 40:00 Contact: Gina Glen, [email protected] Producer/Distributor: Flyers Productions Directed and written by Academy Award- Contact: Amy Hedrick, [email protected] nominee Nolan (Inception, The Dark Knight Kitty Hawk is the epic story of the Wright Rises), Interstellar is based on a script by Brothers and their against-all-odds invention of Jonathan Nolan. The film will be produced by the world’s first airplane. In perhaps one of the Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan of great underdog stories of all time, two bicycle Syncopy Films and Obst of Lynda Obst mechanics from Dayton, Ohio, used what little Productions. Kip Thorne will executive produce. resources they had and accomplished in four The film will depict a heroic interstellar voyage years what none of the most powerful to the furthest reaches of our scientific governments in the world with unlimited funding understanding. were able to achieve in decades of trying. They challenged the beliefs of their day, incorporated Journey to Space (D) global ideas, and used creative ingenuity to Release Date: February 2015 change the world forever. Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, Life in Space (D) Fulldome Digital Release Date: January 2016 Length: 40:00 and 24:00 Formats: 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, Producer: K2 Films and Giant Screen Films Dome-customized 15/70 Distributor: K2 Communications/ Length: 45:00 Giant Screen Films Producer: December Cinema Productions Contact: Mark Kresser, Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films [email protected] Contact: Stephen Amezdroz, When the last shuttle landed in 2011, it was [email protected] actually the beginning of a new era of human For science the heavy lifting is over, a new era spaceflight, with new mission preparations by of space exploration has begun. It’s the search NASA and the international space community to find something that changes everything... which will take astronauts beyond low earth signs of life, somewhere else in the universe. orbit back to the moon, to asteroids, and to NASA is breaking ground on a new brand of Mars within a generation. Journey to Space science, Astrobiology. We already know that life puts the enormous contributions of the shuttle in space exists, because that’s what we are, as program into an historical context of are all things that live on our planet. Life in

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Space is a journey that takes us from the The fantasy that drives museum sleepovers and depths of the Pacific Ocean, to Europa, the ice fires the imagination of every visitor is at the moon of Jupiter, back in time to when Mars was very heart of Museum Alive 3D: what if the a virtual Eden, and out into the far reaches of exhibits could come to life? In this dramatic, space in search of planets like ours. It will make informative, and entertaining film, audiences you re-examine such fundamental questions as: get to follow one lucky visitor who stays in the “Where did we come from?” “How did we get museum after dark, when the most here?” and “Are we alone?” extraordinary prehistoric creatures magically come to life. We’ll see them escape their The Magic of Wild Africa (D) display cases, shake off the dust and explore Release Date: 2015 the museum. Within this fantastical framework Formats: 2D, 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, our visitor can come face to face with IMAX Digital dinosaurs, ice age beasts, giant birds, and Length: 40:00 and 20:00 monster reptiles; but there is also fascinating Producer: BBC Earth and Reliance Entertainment real science that informs their appearance and in association with Evergreen Studios behavior, all based on a unique collaboration Distributor: BBC Earth and Giant Screen Films between the world’s leading scientific experts Contact: Tom Rooney, [email protected] and award-winning digital effects artists. We’ll Come with us on a spectacular 3D ride across, introduce you to a wonderful selection of the over, and through the magical realms of the most intriguing creatures that are found within most dramatic continent on earth: Africa. Our many museum collections worldwide. This film guide through this enchanted kingdom is the will entertain and educate whilst fulfilling the sorcerer itself—water. Water crafts wild Africa, fantasy of anyone who’s ever dreamt of seeing conjuring up life wherever it journeys...traveling the Museum come Alive. above the plains on seasonal winds, cascading along raging rivers, or sheltering coral cities. Oceans of Sanctuary (D) Audiences will be plunged into fantastic places Release Date: March 2016 and meet amazing creatures. On the journey Formats: 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX through the magical realms of Africa, we’ll Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital discover the fascinating secrets of this Length:40:00, 20:00, and 10:00 enchanted kingdom: how spectacular thermal Producer/Distributor: 3D Nature Films geysers help turn thousands of flamingos pink, Contact:Susan Sember, [email protected] and create the perfect conditions for them to Underwater parks, also known as marine breed; why the heat beating down on waterless protected areas, may be the oceans’ single dunes in the Namib Desert forces a lizard to “greatest hope.” These treasured aquatic dance; and why it snows on the equator. It’s an resources are revered, iconic, and vital habitats adventure where you will truly believe the real to sustain a healthy ocean environment. They world is more extraordinary and awe-inspiring additionally provide us with destinations of than any fiction. adventure and exploration. From the stunning coral reefs to the thick kelp forests, along Museum Alive 3D (D) with the valued fisheries and underwater Release Date: December 2015 archaeological sites filled with shipwrecks, Formats: 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital these sanctuaries provide refuge and migratory Length: 40:00 routes for numerous endangered and Producer: Atlantic Productions/Colossus threatened species. Special, unique, Productions irreplaceable, and worthy of saving, these Distributor: To be confirmed sacred and fragile places of beauty deserve Contact: John Morris, the homage paid as the earth’s most [email protected] precious underwater venues.

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Predator (D) and its forests is filled with a history of tragedy, Release Date: Spring 2016 sacrifice, and ultimately compromise. With Formats: 2D, 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, China’s flourishing tourism industry, the area IMAX Digital has attracted thousands of visitors and granted Length: 40:00 and 20:00 newfound attention and prosperity to its Producer: Silverback Films and BBC Earth residents. Road to Paradise (3D) presents these Distributor: BBC Earth and Giant Screen Films dynamics between man and Mother Nature as Contact: Tom Rooney, [email protected] well as the ongoing efforts of the Huayang people Predator deconstructs the world of major to preserve this harmonious state of co-existence predators as never before, taking an intimate in the face of arising commercialization and look at the remarkable strategies they use to conflicting interests which may threaten this succeed. Advanced filming techniques expose delicate and hard fought balance. the planet’s top predators in extraordinary Robots (D) footage, putting the audience right beside them Release Date: April 2015 as they hunt—on land, under the sea or in the Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, air. Far from a film about the kill, instead the IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70 audience will be emotionally engaged with the Length: 40:00 key characters, learning how these supreme Producer: National Geographic Studios, species must be at the very peak of Days End Pictures performance to have any chance of success. Distributor: National Geographic Studios Their backstory will be a key part of the Contact: Mark Katz, [email protected] narrative; to understand a cheetah’s dilemma Humans do amazing things, all the time, without you must meet her hungry cubs and realize even thinking. It takes 34 muscles to move your hyenas are her deadly enemy. Top predators fingers and thumb and more than 80 billion occupy an apex position within the habitats neurons to think. Humans use 300 muscles just they dominate and, alongside dramatic animal to stand still! Imagine trying to build a machine behavior, Predator reveals the unique that can move like a human, think like a human, relationship between predators and prey as a or even simply stand still like a human. Robots fundamental building block of ecology. 3D will explore building state of the art humanoids, Road to Paradise (D) and witness the trials and tribulations. You’ll Release Date: 2015 meet the leading humanoids of today, many of Formats: 2D, 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, which are already performing previously IMAX Digital unimaginable tasks such as walking, talking and Length: 40:00 thinking. Robots 3D will introduce you to future Producer/Distributor: Huwa Golden challenges and the real world needs for robots, International, Inc./Digital Revolution Studios in a way only the giant screen can show you! Contact: Gina Tanner, [email protected]; Yan Ding, [email protected] Space Next 3D (D) Release Date: May 2015 The Qinling Mountains of China are home to Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, multiple species of endangered wildlife, such as IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, the giant panda, and over a thousand species Fulldome Digital of seed plants, making it one of the most Length: 37:00 and 25:00 biodiverse areas in China. Nestled within these Producer/Distributor: AfterglowStudios mountains also lies Huayang, a millennium- Contact: Luke Ployhar, [email protected] year-old town and farming community which Space Next takes us on a journey of mankind’s matches its surrounding forests in its cultural pursuit to reach the stars. Beginning with the richness. However, despite this tranquil image of earliest dreams that sparked the imagination to an ecological safe haven, the story of Huayang build machines to take us into flight. The impact

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of war on the development of technology and Soar with the world’s premiere wingsuit pilots, ultimately the space race that inspired generations Jeb Corliss and Joby Ogwyn, as they fly “around and the inventions that have changed the world the world” their way, seeing incredible sights, forever. But now, with the end of NASA’s shuttle sounds and cultures…and making epic wingsuit program it leaves the question of what’s to flights in the most spectacular locales on the come. Space Next looks to inspire a new planet. Humans have always wanted to fly, generation to once again look to the stars. To without assistance, like winged life that called reveal the possibilities of what’s to come as not the sky home. Witness these true adventurers just national space programs develop new attempt to use their skills to defy gravity, as they technologies but as private organizations look fly some of the most exotic places on the to reach to the stars as well. Space Next 3D will planet, including Mount Everest, Switzerland’s have multiple format cut-downs as well. Jungfrau rock face, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa high rise, South Africa’s Drakensberg, and even Wild Flight 3D (D) between New York’s high rises. Audiences will Release Date: April 2016 have a point of view experience that will make Formats: 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital palms sweat and give vertigo new meaning. Length: 40:00 Producer: Atlantic Productions/Colossus Zero Gravity - Mission in Space (D) Productions Release Date: February 2015 Distributor: To be confirmed Formats: 2D, DCI-compliant Digital, Fulldome Contact: John Morris, Digital, 4K, 4096x2160 [email protected] Length: 52:00 The ability to fly is one of the greatest miracles Producer: La Vingt-Cinquieme Heure, in the natural world. Millions of creatures soar Prospect TV, ZDF above our heads today, using a fabulous variety Distributor: La Vingt-Cinquieme Heure of techniques to defy gravity and master their Contact: Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff, aerial environment. Wild Flight 3D uses the very [email protected] latest science and stunning special effects to With the International Space Station ISS, uncover the 300-million-year story of flight as mankind’s ancient dream to leave our planet never before. The most advanced filming and conquer space has come true. It is the technology allows us to show the beauty and greatest technological project ever imagined in excitement of life on the wing, from the fastest history. The young ESA astronaut Alexander predatory falcons to the most acrobatic of Gerst will be the third German to travel to the insects, night flyers like owls and bats, and the ISS, and along with his NASA colleague Reid soaring and gliding specialists capable of Wiseman, he launched in May 2014 from travelling huge distances. Audiences will truly Baikonur to spend six months in humanity’s enter the amazing world of these remarkable outpost in space. These young astronauts will animal aviators, and leave the theatre both take the audience along on this adventure. Over stunned by the spectacle and thrilled by the the course of six months they will film their story of Wild Flight. mission in space. The 4K documentary Zero Gravity—Mission in Space is an incredible and Wingsuit Flyers (D) magical experience to the ultimate frontier. K Release Date: 2015 Space exploration has always been the dream K Formats: 2D, 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, Fulldome of mankind, and the International Space K Digital, 4K/2K Digital Station ISS is a powerful symbol of the unique Length: 40:00 and 24:00 partnership and cooperation between many Producer: Grand Schema different nations fulfilling this dream. Distributor: K2 Communications Contact: Mark Kresser, [email protected]

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Adventure Reef Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital The Beavers is the story of a young beaver who Bioluminescence: Release Date: March 2016 Length: 39:00 and 20:00 sets off on a journey to find a mate, build a The Language of Light Producer: Rough Cut Pictures home, and start a family. Under the shadows of Formats: 2D, 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Release Date: Fall 2016 Distributor:To be confirmed the Rocky Mountains, our young female is Digital, Dome-customized 15/70 Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, Contact: Sias Wilson, [email protected] Length: 45:00 forced by her mother, in a coming-of-age ritual, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70 Producer: December Cinema Productions Ants and humans are the only two creatures on to leave the pond where she was born. She Length: 40:00 Distributor: To be announced earth capable of living in societies of over a survives the perilous journey (that claims many Producer: Melrae Pictures Contact: Stephen Amezdroz, million individuals. As such, our civilizations young lives) and finds a mate, whom she will Distributor: TBA [email protected] face similar challenges. Often, those challenges stay with for life. They proceed to transform a Contact: Kimberly Rowe, [email protected] A year in the life of one of the world’s most are met with common solutions, in substance, if barren patch of the American Rockies into a home for themselves and a host of other Join us on the magical journey of Dr. Edith amazing aquatic destinations. not always in style. As it turns out, modern Widder’s lifelong curiosity to better understand humans are more like ants than we are like animals. They do this in an amazing feat of Amazon Adventure engineering by building a dam, a complex a mysterious and beautiful natural chimpanzees. Both, ants and humans build phenomenon called bioluminescence—living Release Date: Fall/Winter 2015 series of canals, and creating their own pond. roads, employ traffic rules, work in teams and organisms creating their own light to Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, But, will our beaver couple survive the winter assembly lines, and fashion means for dealing communicate. A renowned expert and marine IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome with sanitation and public health issues. We storms and spring floods, as well as the Digital attentions of wolves, bears, and coyotes, to start biologist, discover how she cracks their code train labor specialists, enslave others, and draft and engineers an innovative way to speak their Length: 40:00 armies. Ant Nations is an adventure of epic a family of their own? A 20-minute version will Producer: SK Films Inc. in association with also be available in all digital formats. language! An award-winning production team proportions; a journey into the heart of the ant and vibrant IMAX technology will immerse the Tangled Bank Studios world, up close, personal and at a giant screen Distributor: SK Films Inc. Biology 2.0 viewer in bio-rich landscapes, including The scale. A quest into a realm which from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, New Contact: Jonathan Barker, [email protected] Release Date: 2016 outside looks very different to ours but at Zealand, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean Sea, Amazon Adventure tells the exciting story of essence is much the same. Filming in 6K Digital. Formats: 2D, 3D, 4K stereoscopic Length: 40:00 and 20:00 where bioluminescence provides the edge to Henry Bates fascinating eleven-year journey survive. By diving into what some consider to through the perilous Amazon rainforest as a Asteroid Impact Producer: La Compagnie des Taxi-brousse Release Date: 2016 Distributor: To be determined be the most common form of communication young man who risks his life for science. As in on earth, viewers will begin to better any great detective story, audiences will Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital Contact: Laurent Mini, [email protected] Length:40:00 understand these ecosystems and explore experience the compelling clues Bates unearths A new genesis is under way. After the dramatic how we can harness this chemical reaction in his major discovery of the phenomenon of Producer/Distributor: IMAX Corporation advances in genomics, 21st century biology is Contact: Gina Glen, [email protected] for future innovation! “Batesian” mimicry, whereby certain animals also heading for a revolution: moving into the adopt the look of others and thus deceive Asteroid Impact will reveal the origins of era of synthesis. Its ways and means: making The Bumblebee Queen asteroids and the effects of previous Earth evolution evolve, synthesizing genes, building predators. Little known to the public, Bates Release Date: 2016/2017 impacts, delve into the threat these celestial made other crucial contributions to biology, genomes…decrypting, encrypting, and Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, identifying 8,000 new species, and, most masses pose to our planet today, and examine re-encrypting the very building blocks of life, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, importantly, putting forward the first-ever case how we monitor their trajectory in order to stay DNA, and manipulating them like simple Lego Fulldome Digital for speciation—the “chain of progression” from out of their deadly path. Through a tour of the bricks, programming them, like mechanical Length:40:00 and 20:00 on species to another. Audiences will be wowed solar system and a close look at the “city- parts. That is the challenge that lies ahead. Its Producer: Principal Large Format by mind-boggling examples of mimicry and the buster” asteroid, Apophis, this new IMAX objectives: transforming cells into a Distributor: To be determined process of scientific discovery. The end of the documentary will tell you everything about the computational system, conceiving and Contact: Phil Streather, [email protected] film reveals current genetic research, including massive space rocks that shape our universe constructing living factories to produce the never-before-seen microscopic gene through amazing and devastating collisions. chemical molecules, inventing new forms of life, From the creator and producer of the giant mechanisms for animal coloration using the to transform the world and to provide responses screen hit Bugs! A Rainforest Adventure comes same creatures at the heart of Bates The Beavers to health, energy, and data issues. The a new and exciting journey. We will take you into discoveries 150 years ago. Welcome to the Release Date: 2017 revolution concerning our knowledge of a a world you cannot see with human eyes...into Amazon, where things are not what they seem! Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX living-being’s most intimate workings, the the world of The Bumblebee Queen. Set on a Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital revolution in computer power, the revolution in beautiful English country estate, The Ant Nations – The Super Length: 40:00 and 20:00 working on a nanoscopic scale. All these Bumblebee Queen is the emotionally driven Social Network (D) Producer: Principal Large Format converge towards this new revolution—that of story of a queen bee and her struggle to bring Distributor: To be determined Release Date: Spring 2015 synthetic biology. up the next generation of kings and queens. Contact: Phil Streather, [email protected] Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, Think Pixar meets natural history meets

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Downton Abbey. Along the way we are atmosphere, the formation of water, the introduced to a cast of other fascinating emergence of a magnetic field—all three of characters. Our film will open audiences’ eyes which led to the most monumental change of as to how vital insects are to we humans, as we them all... life. Earth Story takes us on a visual witness the ways in which the bumblebee journey to see our world during its birth, its queen, along with other insects and pollinators, infancy, and its adolescence. Earth Story work their natural magic around the country allows viewers to see our home’s glorious estate: in the meadow, the orchard, the flower history using the power of 3D IMAX. Discover gardens, the vegetable plots, and the that our world was once stranger than science greenhouses. A 20-minute version will also be fiction and more visually spectacular than our available in all digital formats. wildest dreams. Carrier Extreme Weather Release Date: 2015 Release Date: 4th quarter 2016 Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70 Digital, 4K/2K Digital Length: 40:00 Length: 40:00 and 24:00 Producer: National Geographic Studios and Producer: The Stephen Low Company Sean Casey Distributor: K2 Communications Distributor: National Geographic Studios Contact: Mark Kresser, Contact: Mark Katz, [email protected] [email protected] Extreme Weather comes to us from famed Carrier will immerse audiences in breathtaking storm chaser Sean Casey. This dramatic and air and sea operations aboard a modern exciting film will take us inside hurricanes, Nimitz-class nuclear-powered carrier and track lightning and tornadoes, drought and floods. We the experiences of the young pilot of an F-18 will see lightning move in a slow-motion dance, Super Hornet and others engaged in a massive and travel on a groundbreaking mission to international event. Set against the stunning record the first vertical scans of a tornado. We panorama of RIMPAC, a large multi-national will be going inside an extraordinary wind- naval exercise, the film will showcase the generating lab that can create winds up to 190 excitement of a technological ballet that brings mph and maintain those winds for 12 hours to a large array of ships and aircraft together in replicate the exact conditions of a hurricane. what is reminiscent of a real life Top Gun. Extreme Weather will examine these forces of nature so we can better understand them and Earth Story prepare ourselves for when they strike. Release Date: January 2017 Formats: 2D, 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, Hawai’i Islands of Fire 3D IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70 Release Date: Mid 2016 Length: 45:00 Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, Producer: December Cinema Productions IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films Fulldome Digital Contact: Stephen Amezdroz, Length: 40:00 [email protected] Producer: Ring of Fire Films Inc. If the history of the earth were a 24-hour clock, Distributor: To be announced then humans have only existed for just over a Contact: Michael Lienau, minute. This is the story of the rest of it. And [email protected] what a story it is. Earth’s history is nothing if not Experience the aloha and mystery of the dramatic. It has had to cope with at least five Hawaiian Islands as never before—alongside major extinction events. It has seen the world’s most active volcano! Journey with a monumental change—the creation of an young Polynesian boy on a time voyage through

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history as he joins native wayfarers, warriors, us, “The genome is like a storybook—you could Five million years ago the waters of the Atlantic Myers’ upcoming 3D film, which is still untitled, kings and queens—navigating uncharted take it to bed like One Thousand and One Ocean cascaded into a desert bowl between will use IMAX’s extremely high-resolution oceans, tribal warfare, and spectacular volcanic Arabian Nights and read a different story in the Europe and Africa, and the Mediterranean Sea photography and videography to offer eruptions. Encounter stunning scenes of genome every night.” was born. Since that time the mighty empires of breathtaking, illuminating views of our home paradise and discover how volcanoes have Egypt, Greece, and Rome have come and gone planet from space, exploring the astonishing shaped the people, history, and culture of LightSpeed Pioneers: on its shores, and dolphins, loggerhead turtles, changes that have occurred on Earth in just the Hawai’i—as rarely told. Follow along in a Stranded on Mars and monk seals now live in its waters. It is a past several decades. Made in cooperation with scientific adventure as a legendary Release Date: Late 2015/early 2016 place where WW2 fighter planes have turned the National Aeronautics and Space volcanologist and our young Hawaiian Formats: 2D, 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, Fulldome into reefs of soft coral, 3000-year-old urns are Administration (NASA), the film will explore apprentice work to save a village from hot Digital home to shimmering shoals of fish, and mankind’s future on-and off-the planet, flowing lava. Witness the courage of the Length: 25:00 and 45:00 16-foot-high statues from the sunken city of increasing our understanding of the solar Hawaiian people as they seek to save their Producer: Wonder Mill Animated Properties/ Heracleion are lying where they fell 1200 years system, while also traveling light-years to other precious land, species, ancient language, and No Final Frontier Productions ago. This is a sea where the cradle of civilization star systems to ponder the possibilities of their very culture. This captivating docu-drama, Distributor: Evans & Sutherland (FullDome Only); runs parallel with the natural world. In the “Goldilocks,” an Earth-like planet. The film is the newest giant screen film featuring Hawai’i in 2D and 3D digital TBD depths off ancient Athens, we discover expected to be released in 2015. 25 years, takes audiences from pre-historic to Contact: Lee Fanning, [email protected] something special—20 families of sperm present, inspiring deeper understanding of whales, the most social of the great whales. LightSpeed Pioneers: Stranded on Mars is an Wild Brazil these islands to promote education and Come with us on a journey into the Mysteries of upcoming, traditionally animated science Release Date: Summer 2016 preservation of Hawai’i for future generations. the Mediterranean. A 20-minute version of the Formats: fiction/adventure film designed for both 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, Experience Hawai’i Islands of Fire 3D and feel film will also be available in all digital formats. fulldome planetarium screens and giant screen IMAX Digital the adventure of aloha! Length: 40:00 and 20:00 institutional theaters. Set in a future golden age Producer/Distributor: Giant Screen Films and of commercial space exploration, the film Secrets of the Universe K2 Communications The Human Odyssey: follows a group of teenage astronauts-to-be as Release Date: 2016 Contact: Tom Rooney, [email protected] Secrets of Our DNA they match their wits and wills while training for Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, Release Date: 2017 voyages to other worlds. Simulated dangers IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, 4K/2K Dark jungles with hidden people. Mysterious Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, Dome- become all too real, however, after a crash Digital denizens lurking in quiet rivers. Bottomless Length: 40:00 and 24:00 customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital, broadcast landing on Mars strands the group on the wrong caverns riddled with gemstones. Pulsing cities Producer: The Stephen Low Company format side of the planet, where they’ll have to think with precariously perched favelas and tropical Distributor: K2 Communications Length: 40:00 fast—and use their science know how-—to beaches. A kaleidoscope of culture and color Producer/Distributor: Weldon Communications Contact: Mark Kresser, and Carnival, Brazil is a provocative country survive the red planet’s ever-mounting dangers. [email protected] and Twin Cities PTV An action-packed educational adventure built that stirs our senses and imagination. This Contact: JoAnna Baldwin Mallory, to provide dynamic, STEM-focused curriculum Travel to the Franco/Swiss border where the giant screen film explores the hope and future [email protected] for audiences between the ages 9 to 14, world’s most brilliant scientists are working to of this distinctive land and celebrates its The Human Odyssey: Secrets of Our DNA, a LightSpeed Pioneers: Stranded on Mars will be find answers to some of life’s most enduring natural riches, emerald forests, and spirited giant screen film and prime-time PBS series, a one-of-its-kind experience that explores the “secrets,” such as the origins of the universe as people. Witness a photographic odyssey from tells a sweeping story of more than 70,000 unique science of our nearest celestial we know it after the big bang. Aided by the the wilds of the Amazon to the city lights of Rio years of human history, as our ancestors neighbor, as well the history of its unmanned world’s most powerful microscope, the $13 de Janeiro, from thundering Iguazu Falls to traveled out of Africa and came to inhabit every exploration, and the future of human kind’s billion Large Hadron Collider, we learn about serene white sand beaches. Experience a wild continent on Earth. Our cameras will vividly presence there. why particles have mass, the nature of dark land of light and color and rhythm. Released to capture the stunning diversity of the living world matter, the causes of gravity and more. coincide with Brazil’s emergence onto the world in this epic global trek, as scientist explorers Mysteries of the Mediterranean stage in the coming years, Wild Brazil is a track ancient migrations and probe the intricate Release Date: 2017/2018 Untitled Toni Myers Space vibrant and musical portrait of a nation poised interplay of the human genome and the Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, Documentary to lead and succeed in the 21st century. environments our ancestors encountered. IMAX Digital, Dome-customized 15/70, Release Date: 2015 Audiences will discover the biological engines Fulldome Digital Formats: 2D, 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital of genetic change that make human beings so Length: 40:00 and 20:00 Length: To be determined much the same, yet so different, and able to Producer: Principal Large Format Producer/Distributor: IMAX Corporation adapt to a breathtaking range of environments Distributor: To be determined Contact: Gina Glen, [email protected] around the planet. As scientist Eric Lander tells Contact: Phil Streather, [email protected]

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Visit these exhibitors at the trade show on Monday, September 22, D3D Cinema education. The company was founded in 2000 4:00-8:00 pm, in the Osgood Ballroom at the Sheraton. Cocktails and Don Kempf, [email protected] by award-winning interactive producer and hors d’oeuvres will be available. Prizes will be awarded throughout 1-847-475-9140 former science museum educator Brad Lisle. the trade show, and you must be present to win. www.d3dcinema.com Brad has a passion for making science exciting and understandable to audiences worldwide D3D Cinema offers complete digital 3D cinema and his company brings together a highly 3D Entertainment Distribution Achtel Pty. Limited solutions and services to museum and creative and experienced group of interactive attraction industry clients worldwide. We offer a media professionals. Clients include some of Francois Mantello, [email protected] Pawel Achtel, [email protected] fresh and unique partnership approach to 44-20-7681-2357 61-40-747-2747 the world’s foremost teaching hospitals, cinema design and 3D content production, a educational institutions, and biopharmaceutical 3DEfilms.com achtel.com value proposition built around four core facebook.com/3DEfilms companies. The NSF recently funded Foxfire, Achtel Pty. Limited specializes in 3D underwater capabilities: Theater Design and Installation, Masters Digital, and Purdue University to 3D Entertainment Distribution (3DED) is the cinematography for giant screen films. Our Touring Exhibition Theaters, Award-winning produce an interactive show for giant screen theatrical sales and marketing arm of 3D unique approach to filmmaking and storytelling Library of 3D Film Content, and Signature Film theaters called Global Soundscapes. Please Entertainment Films, a vertically integrated focuses on merging science-based camera Production. stop by our tradeshow booth to learn more. company founded in 2001 and focused on the technology with research-based animal production, post-production, sales and behavior. We have produced the most innovative Evans & Sutherland Giant Screen Films distribution of innovative 3D films for IMAX underwater filming system in years— Michael Daut, [email protected] theatres and Digital 3D cinemas worldwide. Its revolutionary new housings: DeepX and 3Deep Don Kempf, [email protected] 1-801-588-1627 1-847-475-9140 mission is to immerse audiences of all ages in for shooting in 2D and 3D underwater. Up until es.com www.gsfilms.com unique story-driven experiences that both now, capturing cinema-quality images facebook.com/Evans.and.Sutherland Giant Screen Films is one of the world’s inspire and educate. The cornerstone of the underwater, especially in 3D, has meant large, Evans & Sutherland (www.es.com) provides company’s film catalogue is a unique cumbersome, and expensive equipment; large leading giant screen/IMAX film production and Digistar 5, the world’s most advanced fulldome distribution companies. The company’s mission underwater film trilogy presented by Jean- camera crews; and images dramatically digital cinema and planetarium system. Digistar Michel Cousteau that has grossed over USD 86 degraded by traditional underwater flat and is to create and distribute films that portray 5 has been optimized as a digital replacement fascinating subjects and events in a manner million at the box office to date. In 2010, the dome ports. It has made it almost impossible for 15/70 film in dome theaters at resolutions company successfully launched its first for filmmakers to get close to the very creatures that inspires children and adults around the up to 8K in 2D and fulldome 3D. E&S also world, taking advantage of advanced sight acquisition, the USD 20 million-grossing Sea they’re trying to film. And, it’s never been distributes a large library of titles converted Rex 3D: Journey to a Prehistoric World (Best possible to capture images that match the and sound technologies of the giant from giant screen film to digital fulldome format. screen medium. Earth Sciences Program Award, 2011 Jackson quality you can get above water. Our inventions E&S is also the world’s leading producer and Hole Wildlife Film Festival). Following the changed all that. We produce slate of our own distributor of digital fulldome shows. Digistar 5 IMAX Corporation fast-paced Air Racers 3D narrated by Paul films and help others with their 4K (and higher) combines ultra-high resolution fulldome video Walker in 2012, 3DED released the safari- 3D production needs above and underwater. playback in 2D and 3D with a real-time 3D Mike Lutz, [email protected] 1-310-255-5505 themed Kenya 3D: Animal Kingdom in 2013. computer graphics engine and a comprehensive Twitter: @IMAX In time for the 70th anniversary of the historic BIG & Digital astronomy database, all within a powerful landings, in 2014 3DED launched the critically Tina Ratterman, [email protected] imax.com easy-to-use graphical user interface. As a facebook.com/IMAX acclaimed and family-friendly D-Day 3D: 1-702-932-4045 full-service system provider, E&S also offers Normandy 1944, narrated by Tom Brokaw. Skype: biganddigital Spitz domes and a full range of theater systems, IMAX Corporation was formed more than 40 Returning to the marine world with its upcoming Twitter: @biganddigital including audio, lighting and show control. E&S years ago in the world of specialty giant screen release, Secret Ocean 3D, directed by biganddigital.com markets include premium giant screen theater, theatres and has now become a leading global Jean-Michel Cousteau, is slated for March A distribution and marketing company planetariums, science centers, and themed entertainment and technology brand. IMAX’s 2015. The company has offices in London specializing in the placement and promotion of attraction venues. E&S products have been pioneering spirit thrives today as it makes its (UK) andLos Angeles (California). 70mm and digital high-quality, family-friendly installed in over 1,300 theaters worldwide. largest investments ever in the giant screen For more information, please visit educational films for all ages, including Kids’ industry’s future to continue to deliver http://www.3DEfilms.com. Corner Movies for Kids Ages 2-7. We are Foxfire Interactive entertainment experiences that take audiences committed to maximizing box office success Brad Lisle, [email protected] beyond the edge of their seats to a world and building long-term relationships with 1-508-699-6650 they’ve never imagined. These initiatives include producers and theaters. Big Screens. Big foxfireinteractive.com the development of the IMAX GT laser Impact. Big Box Office. projection, which is expected to set a new Foxfire Interactive is media production company standard in image quality with greater that specializes in science and medical

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brightness, contrast and color, as well as its Laser Fantasy National Geographic Studios Ontario Science Centre recently launched IMAX original film fund of up Jay Heck Mark Katz, [email protected] Natalie Das, [email protected] to $50 million to finance an ongoing supply of 1-425-214-0772 1-212-224-8479 416-696-4622 educational documentaries that push the [email protected] nationalgeographic.com/movies OntarioScienceCentre.ca envelope of traditional documentary facebook.com/LaserFantasyLaserShows facebook.com/natgeomovies filmmaking for a new generation of moviegoers. The Ontario Science Centre uses science as twitter.com/laserfantasy Twitter: @natgeomovies the lens to inspire and actively engage people #natgeofilms Jenoptik Optical Systems Founded in 1977, Laser Fantasy grew to in new ways of seeing, understanding, and become the world leader in the planetarium Living up to its global reputation for stunning thinking about themselves and the world. As Ray Malcom, [email protected] laser light show market. Laser Fantasy visuals and engaging stories, National one of the world’s first interactive science 1-561-881-7400 ext. 1116 produces innovative laser lighting effects for Geographic Studios produces and distributes centers, we’ve been delighting, informing, and jenoptik-inc.com science centers, theme parks, corporate giant screen and digital films in 2D and 3D for challenging our visitors for over 40 years. We Jenoptik Optical Systems specializes in design events, and custom projects. Over the years both institutional and commercial theaters. In create engaging science experiences for and manufacture of custom high-performance trends and techniques in the laser industry 2015, National Geographic is releasing ourselves but we also can create them for our projection, anamorphic projection and have evolved, but Laser Fantasy has always Deepsea Challenge 3D and Robots 3D. Other client-partners at science centres, museums, cinematography lenses. Our technical team provided top-notch laser hardware and NGE films include Jerusalem, Mysteries of the associations and other institutions around the helps our customers deliver unique solutions outstanding shows. Combining the world’s Unseen World, Flying Monsters, Meerkats, Sea world. We have an experienced and talented incorporating capabilities such as higher- most award-winning laser show art department Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure, Lewis and in-house team of scientists, researchers, resolution formats, dome projection, special with brilliant laser light projectors to entertain Clark, Forces of Nature, Mysteries of Egypt, designers, and fabricators who can develop, 3D solutions, and special filters or masking. We and inspire audiences the world over. Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure, The Wildest design, and build exhibits to your are part of Jenoptik AG, with over 3,400 Dream: Conquest of Everest, and more! specifications. Our clients choose to buy our employees globally working to deliver MacGillivray Freeman Films exhibits or lease our travelling exhibitions transformative solutions. Bob Harman, [email protected] nWave Pictures Distribution because they trust the integrity of our science, Chip Bartlett, [email protected] Goedele Gillis, [email protected] the entertainment value of our designs, the K2 Communications 1-949-494-1055 32-2-347-6319 quality of our craftsmanship, and the reliability Mark Kresser, [email protected] macgillivrayfreemanfilms.com Janine Baker, [email protected] of our customer service and support. Ed Capelle, edwardcapelle@comcast.net MacGillivray Freeman Films is the largest 1-818-565-1101 1-310-524-9100 independent producer of giant-screen films nwave.com Schneider Optics Twitter: @K2comm and has produced many of the most popular nWave Pictures Distribution is the sales and Dwight Lindsey, [email protected] k2communications.com and highest grossing films in the industry. marketing arm of nWave Studios, a fully- Fred Morris, [email protected] K2 is committed to producing, distributing, and Current releases include Journey to the South integrated digital feature animation studio 1-614-975-6604 developing films that resonate with diverse Pacific, in partnership with IMAX Corporation, based in Brussels (Belgium). The company is Henry Greese, [email protected] audiences, and that are rich in STEM content. and Hidden Universe, produced by December known as a market leader in the supply of 631-761-5000 ext. 238 Working jointly with respected filmmakers like Media. Our upcoming releases for 2015 exciting and immersive 3D content that schneideroptics.com, 1-800-228-1254 Steven Low, K2 has released a number of solid include Humpback Whales, an underwater maximizes the WOW factor for audiences. We Schneider continues to expand the digital line performing Large Format films including The adventure into the mysterious world of the offer giant screen educational documentaries of giant screen lenses with a new FISH EYE Ultimate Wave Tahiti, Fighter Pilot, Legends of ocean’s most captivating whale, and America for institutional sites (science centers, Lens and a 26 mm lens in the Di Star + HD Flight, Rescue and 3D Sun (co-production with Wild: U.S. National Parks (wt), a celebration of aquariums, zoos and natural history museums, Series of 11 fixed focal length lens. Projection Melrae Pictures). We are currently in production the great outdoors in time for the 100th etc.), and attraction films and ride simulation digital ND filters, digital polarizer, digital on Journey to Space (a co-production with anniversary of the U.S. National Park Service. titles for entertainment venues (theme parks, anamorphic lens, specialty lens on request. Giant Screen Films releasing in February Visit us at booth #116 to learn more about stand-alone attractions and family 2015), as well as Carrier and Secrets of the these exciting releases and our library of entertainment centers). Recent releases SK Films Universe (both of which are co-productions award-winning films, including Grand Canyon include Galapagos 3D: Nature’s Wonderland Jonathan Barker, [email protected] with Stephen Low Productions releasing in Adventure, Hurricane on the Bayou, Mystery of narrated by Jeff Corwin, Penguins 3D narrated 1-416-367-0440 ext. 3031 summer 2015 and spring 2016 respectively). the Nile, Everest, Arabia, Van Gogh, and the by David Attenborough, and the 2014 premiere Wendy MacKeigan, [email protected] K2 also distributes a number of films for Academy Award®-nominated pictures Dolphins of The Great Apes 3D. Our company is 1-416-367-0440 ext. 3032 other respected production companies within and The Living Sea. headquartered in Brussels with a sales office Amber Hawtin, [email protected] our industry. in Burbank in California. More information at 1-416-367-0440 ext. 3033 nWave.com. skfilms.ca

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SK Films is a giant screen industry leader and The Stephen Low Company Mark Bretherton a past president of the Raleigh Public was founded by veteran feature film, television, Pietro Serapiglia, [email protected] CEO, IMAX Theatres Australia Relations Society and on the board of directors and giant screen executive Jonathan Barker 1-514-633-6036 (Worlds Biggest Screens Pty. Ltd.) of the Junior Woman’s Club of Raleigh. A and IMAX Corporation co-founder Robert Kerr. www.stephenlow.com Session: Marketing, Merlot, and graduate of North Carolina State University, SK is an award-winning producer and Martinis Katy received her BA in Communication with distributor, including the highly acclaimed, High-impact storytelling is what this company concentrations in Public Relations and Flight of the Butterflies, Journey To Mecca: In is about. Come see us about our latest release, Mark Bretherton is CEO of Intrapersonal Communication. the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta (Winner - “Most Rocky Mountain Express and our library of Worlds Biggest Screens Pty. Ltd., the operators Popular Film” and “Best Dramatic Short”), and award-winning giant screen favorites. of the giant screen theaters in Australia. He Diane Carlson joined the business in Australia in 1996, Bugs! (Winner - “Best Film for Lifelong Vice President of Guest Services Learning” and “Best Marketing by a Strong-MDI Screen Systems primarily in a film and theater marketing role, and Theaters, Distributor”). SK works with other industry- Francois Barrette, and assumed the position of CEO in December Pacific Science Center leading players to bring films to market, such [email protected] 2002. He has launched 95 IMAX films in Sessions: Giant Screen 101; as the U.S. National Science Foundation and 1-877-755-3795 Australia, grossing over $115,000,000. The Marketing, Merlot, and Martinis strong-mdicinema.com GSCA awarded him two of the prestigious MAC the Howard Hughes Medical Institute through Diane Carlson is Vice President of Guest its newly formed Tangled Bank Studios. SK Strong|MDI is committed to manufacturing Awards (Marketing and Creativity) in two consecutive years for Best Film Launch by Services and Theaters at Pacific Science Films is currently in partnership with Tangled and developing the highest quality 2D and 3D Center in Seattle. She has been actively Bank on development of its next giant screen projection screens, high-tech coatings, Theater. He is currently on the board of GSCA. Prior to joining the giant screen business he involved in many aspects of the field, including film,Amazon Adventure 3D. specialty surfaces, motorized systems as well advising on film projects and consulting on as large-size structures and frames. Our was responsible for exhibition marketing at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum. This also theater operations and marketing. Her travels Spitz Projection Domes 76,000-square-foot Canadian facility allows us have included visiting over 100 IMAX theaters to offer unparalleled production capacity, and included marketing the Sydney Observatory Joyce Towne, [email protected] and the Sydney Mint Museum. He has worked on four continents. GSCA committee 1-610-459-5200 our strict quality control measures are dictated as a writer on popular culture and is the author participation includes membership, marketing, spitzdomes.com by ISO-9001 standards. We also boast a of Rock and Roll Revolutions (Longmans, and professional development. Her facebook.com/SpitzInc dynamic R&D department that includes a contributions to the annual conference specialized laboratory for coating development. 1996), a short history of popular music and Spitz is the world’s leading provider of the music industry. programming include initiating and projection domes, with over 2,000 domes These elements combined with our dedicated coordinating the Giant Screen 101 Workshop installed in giant screen cinemas, customer service, technical and engineering Katy Hipp Burgwyn and Great Marketing Ideas. She is serving her teams, allow us to provide solutions for all planetariums, and attractions worldwide. Director of Marketing, second elected term on the GSCA board. The NanoSeam™ by Spitz is the only seamless projection requirements, no matter the size launch of the Boeing IMAX theater that she led or complexity. Marbles Kids Museum projection surface available, offering Session: Alternative Content: garnered a GSTA MAC theater launch award in unmatched uniformity under show projection. What’s It All About? 1999. She was honored in 2012 with an IMAX Spitz offers dome repaneling for Giant Screen USHIO America, Inc. Founders Award and in 2013 with a GSCA Big Jan Johnson, [email protected] Katy Burgwyn has more than Shoe award. She attended the University of theaters, which greatly improves the quality of 10 years’ experience in branding, large-format projection. We’ve repaneled 1-714-229-5344 California at Berkeley earning a Bachelors of ushio.com communications, public relations, and Science degree in zoology and a Masters of projection domes at the Reuben H. Fleet marketing. At Marbles Kids Museum, one of the USHIO America, Inc. is a leading manufacturer Public Health. Science Center, Science Center Singapore, and most visited attractions in North Carolina, she of Specialty and General Illumination lighting Science Museum of Virginia with NanoSeam, leads marketing efforts, including setting the solutions based in Cypress, California. Kim Cavendish providing optimal projection surfaces for strategic marketing direction for the museum Established in 1967 as a subsidiary of USHIO President and CEO, Museum of modern digital projection methods. Spitz also and its IMAX theatre. For the 272-seat Wells Inc., in Tokyo, Japan, USHIO carries over 3,500 Discovery and Science provides planetariums, fulldome shows, and Fargo IMAX Theatre at Marbles, Burgwyn general lighting and specialty products. USHIO Session: Marketing, Merlot, and architectural dome design and construction oversees promotions and placement and is the xenon lamp of choice for the digital Martinis services. For more information on Spitz serves as a part of the film selection team. She cinema industry, offering a full line of xenon NanoSeam projection domes, please visit has been with Marbles since 2008, serving as Cavendish has led science lamps that are approved by Barco, NEC, and http://www.spitzdomes.com. Director of Marketing for the past four years. museums since 1981 and institutional Sony. USHIO also offers a washing system for Previously, Ms. Burgwyn was Director of theaters continually since 1992. Starting her cinema 3D glasses. Communications at Girl Scouts–North Carolina museum career in Fort Lauderdale, she Coastal Pines and Project Coordinator at the originally served 14 years as Executive Director Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce. She is of the Museum of Discovery and Science in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, leading it from a small

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children’s museum into a new science center Daniel Ferguson Paul has held newly created positions and marketing department at an educational and IMAX Theater that opened in 1992. She Writer/Producer/Director, C-level roles, whose mandates were to develop nonprofit and started at the museum in 2012 led the Virginia Air and Space Center from Cosmic Picture, LLC a new business. Between 1986 and 2000, as the Marketing Coordinator. Corinna 1995 to 2000. She then served as President Sessions: Giant Screen 101, Paul led giant screen theater and film divisions transitioned into her current analyst position in of the Orlando Science Center for over 2 years Giant Screen Wow Moments at IMAX Corporation and Ogden Entertainment. January of 2013. Corinna is now responsible before returning to be President/CEO of the and Storytelling Paul acquired a strategic marketing acumen for tracking the effectiveness of the museum’s Museum of Discovery and Science in 2002. from his early-career work in brand marketing campaigns. She reports to museum Daniel Ferguson entered the giant screen She is currently the chair of GSCA and has management at Procter & Gamble. He has a management, quantifying and analyzing industry in 1998 as a producer and distributor served on the Board and its forerunner (the Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s consumer response to all marketing initiatives, for Primesco Communications. He was Line GSTA) from 2004 to 2011, chairing its University in Canada. See www. from paid advertising to organic social media Producer on Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance, Publications Committee. She recently blazedigitalcinema.com. outreach. In addition to these responsibilities, and distributed Wolves, Wildfire: Feel the Heat, completed multiple terms on the Boards of Corinna creates and posts all content for the Bears and India: Kingdom of the Tiger. After Directors of the Association of Science- Christian Fry museum’s Facebook page and works closely leaving Primesco in 2002, he worked as Technology Centers. She was a two-term Producer/Director, with colleagues on the museum’s Twitter and Co-Writer and Associate Director of Wired to President of the Florida Association of Pretend Entertainment Instagram accounts. Win: Surviving the Tour de France, Line Museums and was presented with their Sessions: Giant Screen 101, Producer and Script Editor of Journey to Mecca Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. Mastering the Giant Screen Tim Hazlehurst and Creative Consultant for MacGillivray Workflow Vice President of Operations, Freeman Films on Everest: Conquering Thin Air. Myles Connolly Marbles Kids Museum and the He wrote and directed the recent Christian co-wrote, produced, and directed the Producer, 360-Media giant screen film Air Racers 3D, a co- Wells Fargo IMAX Theatre at Sessions: Giant Screen 101, release Jerusalem 3D. From 2010-2014 he Marbles has served on the board of the GSCA and he is production between his company, Pretend Mastering the Giant Screen Entertainment, and 3D Entertainment. It was Sessions: Alternative Content: Workflow co-chair of the Professional Development What’s It All About?, Technical Session Committee. He is also an active member of the widely released in giant screen theaters around After studying film at the Conference Committee and the Awards the world in 2012. Christian’s first and lifelong With over 14 years of experience in the giant University of California Santa Barbara, Myles sub-committee. He graduated McGill University passion is for the ocean and her animals. screen industry, Tim Hazlehurst is currently the spent time working on features in Hollywood in 1996 with a degree in Theology and has a During the late 90’s, Christian joined The Vice President of Operations for Marbles Kids before making the leap to the world of diploma from the Vancouver Film School. Whaleman Foundation in filming, editing, and Museum and the Wells Fargo IMAX Theatre at documentary filmmaking in the early 90s. He producing environmental documentary films Marbles in Raleigh, North Carolina. Marbles has filmed in more than 40 countries during Paul Fraser highlighting issues facing marine mammals ranks as one of the top 10 field trip his 25-year career and filled a number of Founder/President, and their habitats. In 2003 Christian produced destinations in North Carolina, with over half a production and postproduction roles along the Blaze Digital Cinema Works the Whaleman Foundation’s film Deadly million visitors a year to both the IMAX theater way, including producer, writer, picture editor, Sessions: The Digital Pathway for Sounds in the Silent World, which won best and museum. Drawing on his background in and VFX supervisor. He has worked extensively Domes, Alternative Content: short at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. information technology and facilities in the large format genre on more than 20 What’s It All About? Christian is an instrument-rated private pilot management, Hazlehurst manages all facets 70mm films, including the high-profile projects and currently serves as the Vice President of of his institution’s IMAX Theatre and oversees Everest, The Living Sea, Samsara, and most Blaze Digital Cinema Works LLC is a consulting the Santa Monica Airport Association assisting campus-wide guest services and facility recently, the award-winning Flight of the and project management firm specializing in in their efforts to save the airport. He is also operations. Hazlehurst planned and executed Butterflies. With more than 10 years of business development and planning for digital actively involved within the GSCA, serving on his theater’s recent conversion from 15/70 experience in the developing 3D formats, Myles cinema in all the forms it can take—flat screen three committees and chairing a task force on film to digital, placing his theater at the is considered an expert in this very demanding and dome, 2D/3D/4D—for museum and production and post-production workflow. forefront of the industry’s move to digital field. Working alongside some of the best talent commercial sectors, and all functions— projection. Prior to entering the non-profit in the film business, his efforts have helped exhibition, production and distribution. One of Corinna Graham world, Hazlehurst worked for several garner numerous awards, including the Cine Blaze Digital’s specialties is guiding museum- Marketing Analyst, corporations in the information technology Golden Eagle, the Grand Prix du Festival at the theater clients, as an owner’s rep, through Museum of Science, Boston field and in data center management. Theater du La Geode in Paris, the “Best 3D/ business planning for, and ultimately the Session: Marketing, Merlot, and Originally from England and having grown up Immersive” award at the Jackson Hole Wildlife acquisition of, a new digital projection system. Martinis in the United States, Hazlehurst has a Bachelor Blaze also helps develop films through Film Festival, and two Academy Award Corinna Graham is the of Arts in Math from the University of Virginia nominations in the Short Documentary category. planning and executive production services in Charlottesville, Virginia. and handles content licensing assignments. Marketing Analyst at the Museum of Science, Boston. She began her career in 2011 in the

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Martin Howe Stephen Low Kent Maahs Toby Mensforth CEO, TEQ4 Director, Director of Sales & Retail VP of Partner Development, Session: Technical Session The Stephen Low Company Operations, Event Network Martin is based in Brighton in Session: Giant Screen Wow Science Center of Iowa Session: Giant Screen 101 the UK and has over 30 years’ Moments and Storytelling Session: Alternative Content Toby Mensforth has held experience in technology, Stephen Low is one of the I am a proud native Iowan. progressive roles in the cultural entertainment, and education markets. He is a most experienced filmmakers in the large Born and raised in rural Calhoun County. I attraction and museum industry for over 20 creative “techie” with a passion for creating format medium, bringing to his work a unique attended Luther College and Iowa State years. He spent 10 years as Vice President at realistic and engaging immersive experiences. storytelling vision and an understanding of the University. For over 20 years I have been the Smithsonian Institution working for His specialization is in ultra-high resolution language, limitations, and tremendous involved in sales and sales management, Smithsonian Business Ventures. He was a applications and interactive learning possibilities of giant screen 2D and 3D working for Barnes & Noble Booksellers and leader in developing businesses at all SI environments. He is an ideas generator and a cinema. Stephen never tackles the simple Target stores. I began my relationship with the museums, including IMAX theaters, simulators, big-picture thinker with the ability to translate subjects. In working to push the visual and Science Center of Iowa & Blank IMAX Dome planetarium, foodservice, and retail. Toby those into a structured plan and hands-on storytelling potential of the large format, this Theater in 2005 as a volunteer and was hired previously worked for IMAX Corporation for five delivery. He is currently co-chair of the GSCA Montreal-based filmmaker has turned out the following year. I currently hold the position years, where he directed their chain of Technical Committee and has been appointed more than 15 remarkable giant screen of Director of Sales & Retail Operations. My theaters and international client services to the board for 2014. He also is the chair of audience experiences, including Rocky department includes not only our IMAX Dome group. He started his career at the Canadian the DIGSS (Digital Immersive Giant Screen Mountain Express, The Ultimate Wave Tahiti, Theater, but also the café/food operations Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, Canada. For Specifications) Task Force. Martin’s deep Super Speedway, Skyward, Beavers, Titanica, and all Facility Rentals. Finding alternative the last three years he has successfully passion for “the experience of immersion” is and Volcanoes of the Deep Sea. uses for all areas of our building and additional managed his own consulting practice, tempered by a pragmatic approach and a revenue streams to fund mission is vitally specializing in earned revenue for museums. thorough understanding of the commercial Chris Loynd important to my role at SCI. Therefore, I’m very Toby is proud to announce that he has joined realities. His ironic sense of humour helps Director of Marketing, excited to take part in the GSCA panel on the business partnership team at Event balance his impatience to get things done. The Maritime Aquarium alternative content in theaters this year. Network, the premier company in cultural at Norwalk attraction retail. Toby is the Past-Chair of the Chris Hurtubise Session: Alternative Content Greg MacGillivray GSCA and has been a member of their Senior Director of Marketing & Movie theater seats are one of Producer/Director, MacGillivray executive team for the last five years. Communications, COSI the most underutilized properties in all of real Freeman Films Session: Alternative Content: estate. Since joining The Maritime Aquarium in Session: Giant Screen Wow Toni Myers Moments and Storytelling, Digital What’s It All About? 2007, Chris Loynd has been working to find Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, Pathway for Domes Chris Hurtubise is an more opportunities to fill his institution’s IMAX IMAX Corporation experienced giant screen theater and theater seats. Chris is also tasked with filling Greg MacGillivray has produced and directed Session: Giant Screen Wow marketing professional working for COSI—The the Aquarium’s exhibit floors, school programs, some of the most successful films for giant Moments and Storytelling Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, gift shop and research vessel. He comes to screen theaters, including the box-office hit Born and raised in Toronto, Ohio. Chris has been with COSI for 17 years the Aquarium from 17 years’ running his own Everest and the Academy Award®-nominated Canada, Toni Myers is a veteran IMAX and has been associated with the giant advertising agency, Influential filmsThe Living Sea and Dolphins. With 37 filmmaker, credited in more than 18 IMAX screen theater for 13 years. In her role at Communications, serving an eclectic variety of giant screen films to his credit, MacGillivray films spanning a multi-faceted career of over COSI, she is the Senior Director of Marketing consumer and industrial clients, ranging from has shot more 70mm film than anyone in 40 years. She was editor and writer of IMAX’s & Communications and is responsible for IBM to a local Harley-Davidson dealer. He’s cinema history—more than two million feet. He groundbreaking space trilogy: The Dream Is marketing of the National Geographic Giant worked in ad agencies in New York, Milwaukee, is the first documentary filmmaker to reach Alive, Blue Planet, and Destiny In Space. With Screen Theater as well as overseeing a and Princeton. He started his career as an the $1 billion benchmark in worldwide ticket the advent of IMAX 3D, Myers wrote, edited, four-person marketing team. In addition to her agricultural journalist and has a BS in Plant sales. An ardent ocean conservationist, and co-produced the award-winning Deep Sea experience at COSI, Chris has experience in Pathology-Entomology and a BA in Journalism MacGillivray and his wife Barbara recently 3D and Under the Sea 3D with Howard and consumer products sales and business-to- from the University of Delaware. Like many founded the One World One Ocean Michele Hall. She was Producer/Director/ business marketing for professional services. more “experienced” folks, he continues to Foundation, a nonprofit public charity devoted Writer/Editor of Space Station 3D and Hubble adapt to the new tools of marketing. Read his to science education and changing the way 3D, each awarded Best Film by the GSCA and blog “Digital Expatriate” at: ChrisLoynd. people see and value the ocean. MacGillivray’s among the most successful IMAX blogspot.com. films are known for their artistry and their documentaries ever made. Myers has enjoyed celebration of the natural world.

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a long and productive association with NASA Kim Nickels Rich Swietek awards, such as the Gordon E. Sawyer as a key member of the IMAX team that has Accounting and Finance Founder/Creative Director, Academy Award, several Academy nominations, trained 145 astronauts and cosmonauts in Session: Alternative Content: Friendly Giant Marketing the Academy Award for Technical Merit, the IMAX film making for 24 missions flown over What’s It All About? Sessions: Marketing, Merlot, and Tesla Award, the Pardo Award, and the Lifetime 25 years. To date, over 100 million people have Achievement Awards from the Visual Effects Kim is an accounting and Martinis; GSCA Audience seen the IMAX space films worldwide. Research Results Society and the Society Of Operating finance professional with 20+ Cameramen, and the Presidents Award from After college, Rich faced a career decision. Join Jackie Mollet years of experience. She is currently doing the American Society of Cinematographers. freelance accounting and finance work, the circus and entertain people as “Tiny” the Managing Director/Visitor Trumbull holds 23 US Patents in areas of including production accounting for Sean clown? Or go into advertising and entertain Services, entertainment technology. He is a member of Casey and National Geographic’s current people with his writing? Rich’s decision was Saint Louis Science Center the Director’s Guild. He was a principal in the the right one. During his 30-year career, Rich’s Sessions: Marketing, Merlot, project Extreme Weather (WT). From 2008 IMAX IPO in the early 1990s and served as understanding of consumer behavior has and Martinis; Digital Pathway for through 2014, Kim was the VP of Finance and Vice Chairman of IMAX. Domes Operations for the Putnam Museum in helped brand, win awards, and move sales Davenport, Iowa. She was a decision-making needles for an extensive list of clients, Paul Wild Jackie Mollet recently celebrated 15 years at member of the museum’s digital theater including the American Cancer Society, BASF, Theatre Director, IMAX Victoria the Saint Louis Science Center. She has conversion task force and was responsible for Boston Beer, Converse, GSCA, Johnson & worked in a variety of capacities and in June Johnson, Ken’s Foods, Ocean Spray, Penn Inside the Royal BC Museum programming of the giant screen theater, Session: Giant Screen 101 was promoted to Managing Director/Visitor including content selection, contracting, ticket Foster, Perrier, Stanley Hardware, and Steinway Services. She oversees most earned revenue pricing, and scheduling. Programming included Pianos. He’s also carved out a niche handling October 2014 marks the 11th areas for the Science Center as well as front traditional giant screen documentaries, current marketing and branding for destinations such anniversary for Paul in the giant line staff and vendor/partner relationships. and repertory Hollywood content, cable TV/ as the Museum of Science in Boston, New screen industry. During this time and with Jackie is an active member of the GSCA and sporting events, concerts, local filmmaker England Aquarium, and Connecticut Science credit towards a commitment to film marketing sat on the Board 2011-2013. events, kids’ programming, and corporate Center. He’s currently helping market six and a great team of staff and management, presentations. Over the past couple years she documentary projects (5 giant screen) and an IMAX Victoria has continually been a top James Neihouse has informally consulted with numerous NSF-funded project with a goal to Record The performer in the industry. In addition, Paul has Cinematographer theaters during their digital investigation and Earth. Rich is currently Founder/Creative implemented and maintained the most Session: Giant Screen 101, conversion process. Kim is a member of Director of Friendly Giant Marketing. He successful annual pass program in the IMAX Bring Back Our Wide Shots GSCA’s Professional Development Committee graduated in 1984 from Fairfield University world, with around 19,000 to 20,000 James Neihouse is a freelance and Co-Chair of the Alternative Content Special with a degree in Psychology. He’s taught members annually. In 2008 his projection cinematographer who has been Interest Group. Creative Concepts for the Ad Club of Boston, booth team was awarded the Best Booth involved with the giant screen film business performed stand-up, been invited to Ringling’s Award courtesy of IMAX Corporation. While since 1976. His credits include some of the Phil Streather Clown College, and still dons his clown face for essentially operating as an independent most successful films in the format, including CEO, Principal Large Format the occasional good cause. commercial theater, Paul has also had the The Dream Is Alive, Space Station 3D, and Session: 3D for the Giant Screen benefit and experience of operating within the environment of a mission-based institution— Hubble 3D. In 1980 he was cinematographer Phil founded and is CEO of Douglas Trumbull the Royal BC Museum. His 20+ years of for The Eruption of Mount St. Helens, the first Principal Large Format, a President, Trumbull Studios professional hotel management experience giant screen film to be nominated for an production company dedicated Session: Technical Session within the tourism and hospitality field Academy Award. Neihouse’s work has taken to developing and producing 3D Giant Screen Trumbull’s work includes the complements his approach to the giant screen him from the Arctic Circle to the jungles of (IMAX) features, 3D Theatrical Documentary photographic effects for 2001: industry. Over the years he has contributed to India, from South Pacific coral reefs to features, and 3DTV. Phil was the producer A Space Odyssey, Close the GSCA through a long-standing involvement Sub-Saharan Africa, and from the decks of The of award-winning Bugs! 3D, was co-producer Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner, on the Professional Development Committee America’s Cup yachts to the cockpit of the and Stereo Supervisor on Meerkats 3D and Star Trek The Motion Picture and others. He and is a GSCA board member. Space Shuttle. In his work with NASA, he has was the Stereo Supervisor on Tiny Giants 3D. also wrote and directed Silent Running, trained more than 20 shuttle crews on the Other 3D credits include The London Eye 4D Brainstorm, Back To The Future – The Ride, and intricacies of large format filmmaking. In 2014 Experience, Carmen in 3D, and Madam Secrets of the Luxor Pyramid. He has he was invited to become a member of the Butterfly 3D. Phil also devised and ran pioneered new technologies for film Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Advanced 3D: The National Stereoscopic production, including motion control, IMAX cinematography branch. Training Programme in the UK in 2010/2011, cameras, VistaVision cameras, the Showscan funded by Skillset and Sky 3D. 60 fps 70mm process, and has won numerous

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