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3 Sponsors PARTNER 4 Schedule 8 Map of event locations 10 Map of hotel meeting rooms GSCA CONTACTS 14 Professional development sessions Giant Screen Cinema 16 New films Association 24 Films in production GOLD 624 Holly Springs Road, Suite 243 36 Projects in development Holly Springs, NC 27540 U.S. giantscreencinema.com 46 Technical Sessions: Immersive Audio and facebook.com/giantscreencinema True8K™ Digital Dome Demonstration twitter.com/gsca 47 Trade show exhibitors Find our group on LinkedIn 52 Session presenters SILVER Tammy Seldon Executive Director ADVERTISING INDEX Office: 1-919-346-1123 AMZ Design 23 Mobile: 1-703-855-3699 Christie Digital back cover [email protected] Evans & Sutherland 60, inside back cover Foxfire Interactive/Global Soundscapes 35 Kelly Germain GSCA 59 Director of Membership and ImagesInSound 43 Communications IMAX Corporation inside front cover, 1 GENERAL Office: 1-651-917-1080 K2 Communications 7 Giant Screen Films Mobile: 1-651-270-4915 MacGillivray Freeman Films 30, 31 K2 Communications [email protected] National Geographic 19 Simex-Iwerks Entertainment Eileen Pheiffer nWave Pictures Distribution 41 The Stephen Low Company Accounting SK Films 12, 13 Office: 1-314-725-7020 Strong/MDI Screen Systems 45 Mobile: 1-314-708-0448 Ushio America 39 [email protected] Visceral Image Productions 9

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Sunday, October 2: Pre-Conference Day Wednesday, October 5: Conference Day 2 EVENT LOCATION TIME EVENT LOCATION 3:00 pm 24-Hour Rule Begins Breakfast on your own 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm Registration and Information Royal York: Salon B 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Registration and Information Royal York: Salon B Monday, October 3: Pre-Conference Day The Road to Success: Creativity, Strategy, and Execution TIME EVENT LOCATION 7:30 am - 8:45 am Marketing Workshop Professional Development Session, Royal York: Concert Hall 8:00 am - 8:00 pm Registration and Information Royal York: Salon B sponsored by Christie Film Rehearsals (full rehearsal schedule available at Scotiabank IMAX Theatre and 8:45 am - 8:55 am Break 8:00 am - 8:00 pm the GSCA registration desk) Ontario Science Centre Omnimax Alternative Content: What Does It Mean for Me? 8:55 am - 10:10 am Royal York: Concert Hall 8:30 am - 11:00 am Board Meeting (working breakfast meeting) Royal York: Manitoba Professional Development Session, sponsored by Christie Committee Meetings: Royal York: 10:10 am - 10:20 am Break 11:00 am - 12:45 pm • Event Planning • Manitoba • Member Services • Alberta Virtual Reality: A Good Thing for Giant Screen, or Should 10:20 am - 11:35 am We Be Worried? Professional Development Session, Royal York: Concert Hall Committee Meetings: Royal York: sponsored by Christie 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm • Technical • Alberta • Industry Development • Manitoba 11:35 am - 11:45 am Break 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Interest Group* (by invitation only) Royal York: Alberta Members Meeting and Lunch, 11:45 am - 1:00 pm Royal York: Concert Hall 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Giant Screen Industry 101 Professional Development Royal York: Concert Hall sponsored by nWave Pictures Distribution Distributors Interest Group* 1:00 pm Walk to Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Royal York: Manitoba (by invitation only) 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm Registration and Information Scotiabank IMAX Theatre New Members and First-Timers Reception, Royal York: Upper Canada Room, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm 1:30 pm - 3:10 pm Technical Session Scotiabank IMAX Theatre sponsored by SK Films (by invitation only) 18th Floor Welcome Reception, sponsored by SK Films Royal York: Upper Canada Room, 3:10 pm - 3:15 pm Break Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm (all attendees welcome) 18th Floor 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm New Film 7: Mysteries of China Scotiabank IMAX Theatre Tuesday, October 4: Conference Day 1 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm New Film 8: Conquest of the Skies 3D (fine cut) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre TIME EVENT LOCATION 4:45 pm - 5:30 pm New Film 9: Extreme Scotiabank IMAX Theatre Breakfast on your own The Ballroom, 145 John St. at Reception, sponsored by National Geographic 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm the corner of Richmond and 7:15 am - 8:00 am Walk to Scotiabank IMAX Theatre (all attendees welcome) 8:00 am - 11:45 am Registration and Information Scotiabank IMAX Theatre St. John 8:00 am - 8:45 am New Film 1: Global Soundscapes: Mission to Record the 6:30 pm Evening on your own Scotiabank IMAX Theatre (fine cut) 8:45 am - 9:30 am New Film 2: Incredible Predators Scotiabank IMAX Theatre Thursday, October 6: Conference Day 3 9:30 am - 10:15 am New Film 3: Scotiabank IMAX Theatre Please note there are flat screen presentations at the Scotiabank IMAX Theatre as well as 10:15 am - 10:30 am Break dome screen presentations at the Ontario Science Centre Omnimax throughout the day. 10:30 am - 11:00 am New Film 4: Aircraft Carrier: Guardians of the Sea Scotiabank IMAX Theatre The schedule below is separated by screen type. 11:00 am - 11:45 am New Film 5: Voyage of Time Scotiabank IMAX Theatre TIME EVENT LOCATION 11:45 am - 1:15 pm Lunch on your own ALL DELEGATES 11:45 am - 1:15 pm Euromax Meeting (by invitation only) To be announced 11:45 am - 1:15 pm Alternative Content SIG Meeting (by invitation only) To be announced Breakfast on your own 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Awards Rehearsal (by invitation only) Royal York: Concert Hall 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Trade Show Set Up (Exhibitors only) Royal York: Concert Hall 1:15 pm - 5:30 pm Registration and Information Scotiabank IMAX Theatre FLAT SCREEN PRESENTATIONS 1:15 pm - 4:30 pm Films in Production Scotiabank IMAX Theatre Walk to Scotiabank IMAX Theatre for films 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm Break 8:15 am on the flat screen 4:45 pm - 5:30 pm Projects in Development Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 8:30 am - 3:00 pm Registration and Information Scotiabank IMAX Theatre New Film 6: Dream Big: Engineering Wonders of the 8:45 am - 9:30 am New Film 10: Hurricane, a Odyssey (rough cut) Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm Scotiabank IMAX Theatre World (rough cut) 9:30 am - 10:00 am New Film 11: : Mission Extreme Scotiabank IMAX Theatre 6:15 pm Walk to Royal York 10:00 am - 10:45 am New Film 12: National Parks Adventure Scotiabank IMAX Theatre GSCA Achievement Awards and Reception, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Royal York: Concert Hall 10:45 am - 11:00 am Break sponsored by IMAX Corporation 11:00 am - 11:45 am New Film 13: Scotiabank IMAX Theatre *These special interest groups are privately held meetings and are by invitation only. Special interest group meetings are run and managed by GSCA members; however, they are not official GSCA groups.

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11:45 am - 12:30 pm New Film 14: The Search for in Scotiabank IMAX Theatre

12:30 pm - 2:15 pm Lunch on your own DOME SCREEN PRESENTATIONS Buses will run as a shuttle service between the Buses will leave the Royal 6:30 am Royal York hotel and the Ontario Science Centre York hotel from the Front St. for dome film screenings entrance

7:00 am - 1:30 pm Registration and Information Ontario Science Centre

7:00 am - 8:00 am Dome Film 1: Mysteries of China Ontario Science Centre

8:00 am - 9:00 am Dome Film 2: A Beautiful Planet Ontario Science Centre

9:00 am - 10:00 am Dome Film 3: The Search for Life in Space Ontario Science Centre

10:00 am - 11:00 am Dome Film 4: Extreme Weather Ontario Science Centre

11:00 am - 11:15 am Films in Production Ontario Science Centre

Ontario Science Centre: 11:15 am - 12:30 pm Lunch, sponsored by Christie Telus Room

12:30 pm - 1:15 pm Dome Film 5: National Parks Adventure

Final buses depart from the Ontario Science Centre to 1:30 pm return to Scotiabank IMAX Theatre and Royal York hotel ALL DELEGATES 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm New Film 15: The Final Passage Scotiabank IMAX Theatre

2:45 pm - 3:30 pm New Film 16: Amazing Mighty Micro Monsters Scotiabank IMAX Theatre

3:30 pm Walk to Royal York hotel

4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Registration and information Royal York: Salon B

Trade show with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Royal York: Concert Hall sponsored by Technicolor

8:00 pm - 12:00 am Trade show break down (exhibitors only) Royal York: Concert Hall

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm GSCA Board Meeting (working dinner meeting) Royal York: Manitoba

8:00 pm Dinner on your own

Bier Markt 9:30 pm - 1:00 am GSCA Party 58 The Esplanade

Friday, October 7: True8K™ Digital Dome Demonstration TIME EVENT LOCATION Buses depart from the Front Buses depart the Royal York to go to the Ontario Science 8:30 am St. entrance of the Royal Centre York hotel

True8K™ Digital Dome Demonstration, Ontario Science Centre 9:00 am - 12:00 pm equipment kindly provided by Evans & Sutherland Omnimax

12:00 pm Buses depart the Ontario Science Centre to return to the Royal York hotel

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FAIRMONT ROYAL YORK THE BALLROOM 100 Front Street West National Geographic Reception 1-416-368-2511 October 5, 5:30-6:30 pm 145 John Street CINEPLEX SCOTIABANK 1-416-597-2695 IMAX THEATRE 259 Richmond Street West BIER MARKT 1-416-368-5600 GSCA party October 6, 9:30 pm-1:00 am ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE 58 The Esplanade (dome screenings) 1-416-862-7575 770 Don Mills Road 1-416-696-1000

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GIANT SCREEN 101 With valuable information for industry PANELISTS: Mark Kresser, K2 questions for the panel will be drawn Monday, October 3, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm newcomers and veterans alike, this is Communications; Brad LaDouceur, from a short survey of GSCA members Royal York Concert Hall an excellent opportunity to get industry Cineplex Events; Tina Ratterman, BIG & in September. MODERATOR: Diane Carlson, Pacific insight, meet other delegates, and get a Digital; Kate Storm, COSI; Paul Wild, VR is poised for lift-off, though it remains Science Center head start on networking and maximizing IMAX Victoria to be seen if it’ll be a smooth ride, or PANELISTS: Paul Fraser, Blaze Digital the value of the conference. Audience You’ve likely heard colleagues talking where the ride takes us. Analysts have Cinema Works; Julie LaRoche, Montreal members will be encouraged to ask about the pros and cons of programming projected a $30 billion market for VR by Science Centre; Phil Streather, Principal questions and contribute to lively alternative content. As the conversion to 2020, and $150 billion for Augmented Large Format discussion. digital continues, more and more theaters Reality. The applications for VR seem This perennial favorite is always one of the THE ROAD TO SUCCESS: are testing the waters. Perhaps you’re almost endless. AR is already being used most attended and highly rated sessions CREATIVITY, STRATEGY wondering if it’s right for your theater, for group or shared experiences. But what or how it affects you as a producer or of the conference. The panelists bring AND EXECUTION MARKETING does all this mean for the giant screen distributor when something new is added years of GS experience to the program. WORKSHOP industry? Goals for this session: Wednesday, October 5, 7:30 am – 8:45 am to the programming mix. Well, this session 1. Illuminate VR and AR: To set the stage, Paul Fraser, with deep knowledge of the Royal York Concert Hall has something for everyone. The first part we’ll provide some basic information, giant screen theater world, will address MODERATOR: Michael Daut, of the session will include several mini case the “101” on VR and AR, describing the some key business aspects of giant screen Evans & Sutherland studies highlighting programming that has technology, the current of head film and theaters. Included will be a PANELISTS: Dave Duszynski, Cincinnati been successful for theaters. Then you’ll mounted displays (HMDs), profile of the high-level overview of the economics of Museum Center; Chris Hurtubise, COSI; hear from a panel of exhibitors and early adopters, the types of content GS film for all stakeholders, strategies for Anna Relyea, Ontario Science Centre; distributors with varying viewpoints on the getting traction so far, etc. optimum ticket pricing, and pointers for Cindy Todd, Tennessee Aquarium subject of alternative content. The panel 2. Explore the Opportunities & Threats for exhibiting theatrical films at museum- discussion will include some prepared In this workshop, we will look at the the Giant Screen Business based GS theaters. statements and questions but will also process successful marketing teams have encourage audience interaction with the • Producing for VR has synergies with Julie LaRoche is well known for her deployed to create campaigns to launch panelists to allow for an open, candid and dome production. Could this lead to creativity, opportunism, and solid financial and promote giant screen films. Rather lively dialogue that will further illuminate more content that is truly made for results in the marketing of GS films. She than focusing on the success of the the questions, concerns and issues the dome? With cross-platform will present case studies on the marketing campaign, we will look at the ways skilled surrounding this topic. releases planned, could VR production of Jerusalem and Living in the Age of marketing teams brainstormed and attract new funding sources that help Airplanes. She will include challenges, wrestled with concepts, raised sponsorship VIRTUAL REALITY: more GS films get made? strategic decisions, marketing dollar and in-kind support. How did they A GOOD THING FOR GIANT allocation, and results. With the increase implement their marketing campaigns? And SCREEN, OR SHOULD WE • Can a VR or AR companion to a GS in projection systems and differing what did they do beyond the launch to BE WORRIED? film be an effective marketing and sources for digital imagery, fundamental keep the momentum going and attendance Wednesday, October 5 educational outreach tool? issues arise with what audiences building? What approaches were similar 10:20 am - 11:35 am • As VR gains popularity, will VR experience in giant screen theaters. and how did they differ? What marketing Royal York Concert Hall diminish the appeal of the GS film, the original group-oriented immersive Phil Streather will demystify aspect vehicles were used from PR to advertising MODERATOR: Paul Fraser, Blaze Digital ratio—what is and why it . Phil to onsite awareness? Learn about the road Cinema Works. Co-developed with Daniel experience? Streather is a passionate filmmaker whose from ideas to winning strategies. Ferguson, Cosmic Picture • What ARE the out-of-home, group- oriented VR and AR experiences credits include producer of GS classic ALTERNATIVE CONTENT: PANELISTS: Ryan Andal, Secret Location; Bugs!, the co-developer and “based on a WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ME? Nigel Newton, INDE; Robin Sip, Mirage3D in the market now (or soon), and can any of these be adapted to concept by” for Flight of the Butterflies Wednesday, October 5 and Evans & Sutherland complement a GS film at a museum and Stereo Supervisor on Tiny Giants 3D. 8:55 am - 10:10 am Each speaker will take the podium for or science center? Royal York Concert Hall their own presentation. A panel discussion SESSION LEADERS: Chris Hurtubise, COSI; with all speakers will follow. Many of the Kim Nickels, CPA

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DD = the film will also be screened in 15/70 on the dome at Ontario Science Centre the entire . As with any venture CONQUEST OF in outer space, the challenges involved with THE SKIES 3D AIRCRAFT IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, making this idea a reality are enormous; CARRIER: Fulldome Digital (fine cut) however, a mission this extreme could GUARDIANS OF LENGTH: 40:04 Presented in 3D ultimately lead us to learn how to protect THE SEA PRODUCER: Colossus Productions RELEASE: October 2016 and how to successfully inhabit Presented in 3D DISTRIBUTOR: Serengeti Entertainment FORMATS: 2D and 3D, other worlds. Explore what it would take RELEASE: June 17, 2016 CONTACT: Melissa Williams, 15/70, DCI-compliant for to reach an asteroid and FORMATS: 2D and 3D, [email protected] Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX then tame it for our use, as well as Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, DCI-compliant Super powers exist. Right here on Earth. how such an extraordinary adventure 15/70, Fulldome Digital Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- And they are beneath our feet. They could benefit humankind, in Asteroid: LENGTH: 40:00 customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital (25:00 include beetles that shoot chemical fire Mission Extreme. PRODUCER: Colossus Productions version will be available in DCI-compliant and lift enormous ; scorpions that DISTRIBUTOR: Serengeti Entertainment Digital) glow in the dark with astonishing crushing A BEAUTIFUL CONTACT: Melissa Williams, LENGTH: 40:00 and 25:00 powers; spiders that can make themselves PLANET (DD) [email protected] (25:00 to screen in Toronto) virtually invisible and hypnotise their prey; Presented in 3D PRODUCER: K2 Films and Giant Screen Films even a bug that can transform itself into FORMATS: 2D and 3D, The ability to fly is one of the greatest DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications and Giant another creature entirely. Prepare to be 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX miracles in the natural world. Millions of Screen Films amazed in this 3D giant screen adventure Laser, Dome-customized creatures soar above our heads today, using CONTACT: Mark Kresser, exploring the hidden world of the super- 15/70 a fabulous variety of techniques to defy [email protected] powered bugs. A shorter version of this RELEASE: April 29, 2016 gravity and master their aerial environment. The mission to protect and defend the world’s film is also available. LENGTH: 46:00 But how did make the incredible has become far more complex and PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation transition from land to air, over millions of ASTEROID: challenging in recent years, and naval aviation WEBSITE: abeautifulplanet..com/ years? What are the different bio- MISSION EXTREME Narrated by technologies and flight techniques that they has become increasingly vital to success. One SIGOURNEY WEAVER CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] Presented in 3D have used to dominate a variety of niches? of the greatest engineering feats in naval A Beautiful Planet is a breathtaking portrait RELEASE: April 2016 Conquest of the Skies 3D uses the very history, the modern Nimitz-class carrier is a of Earth from space, providing a unique FORMATS: 2D and 3D, latest science and stunning special effects masterpiece of technology, and the flagship perspective and increased understanding DCI-compliant Digital, to uncover the 300-million-year story of of the fleet. With RIMPAC, the world’s largest of our planet and as never seen PRESENTED BY Fulldome Digital flight as never before—and it’s not simply and most comprehensive international PRESENTED BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC STUDIOS presents a SKY-SKAN PRODUCTION ASTEROID: MISSION EXTREME Narrated by SIGOURNEY WEAVER Written by & Exec. Producers PRESENTED BY & Produced & Directed by before. Made in cooperation with the ANNETTE SOTHERAN-BARNETT MOSE RICHARDS BROOKE RUNNETTE STEVEN SAVAGE ANNETTE SOTHERAN-BARNETT Lead Animator TROY WHITMER Post Production SCOTT WYMAN Music & Sound Design PIP GREASLEY & DALE CORDEROY WWW.ASTEROIDFILM.COM LENGTH: 25:00 about . Using the most advanced 3D maritime training exercise providing a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC STUDIOS presents a SKY-SKAN PRODUCTION ASTEROID: MISSION EXTREME Narrated by SIGOURNEY WEAVER Written by ANNETTE SOTHERAN-BARNETT & MOSE RICHARDS Exec. Producers BROOKE RUNNETTE & STEVEN SAVAGE Produced & Directed by ANNETTE SOTHERAN-BARNETT National Aeronautics and Space Lead Animator TROY WHITMER Post Production SCOTT WYMAN Music & Sound Design PIP GREASLEY & DALE CORDEROY PRODUCER: National filming technology we capture the beauty stunning visual context for the story, find Administration (NASA), the film features Geographic and Sky-Skan and excitement of the whole world of flying yourself aboard the USS Ronald Reagan stunning footage of our magnificent blue DISTRIBUTOR: National Geographic creatures, from the fastest predatory alongside the 5,000 highly skilled sea and air planet—and the effects humanity has had WEBSITE: movies.nationalgeographic.com/ falcons to the most acrobatic of insects, personnel conducting flight operations in the on it over time—captured by the astronauts movies/asteroid/ night flyers like owls and bats, and the midst of the simulated war exercises taking aboard the International CONTACT: Antonietta Monteleone, soaring and gliding specialists capable of place there. Rarely has there been a topic so (ISS). Narrated by and [email protected] traveling huge distances. Audiences will visually suited and compelling for IMAX® and from IMAX Entertainment and Toni truly enter the amazing world of these other giant screen theaters. Asteroid: Mission Extreme takes audiences Myers—the acclaimed filmmaker behind remarkable aviators, and leave the on an epic journey to discover the celebrated IMAX® documentaries Blue AMAZING MIGHTY theater both stunned by the spectacle and possibilities that present for Planet, Hubble 3D, and —A MICRO MONSTERS thrilled by the story of Conquest of the space travel. Using stunning visuals and Beautiful Planet presents an awe-inspiring Presented in 3D Skies 3D. A shorter version of this film is state-of-the-art computer graphics, the film glimpse of Earth and a hopeful look into RELEASE: January 2016 also available. presents the fascinating idea, based on real the future of humanity. FORMATS: 2D and 3D, science, that asteroids could be used as 15/70, DCI-compliant stepping stones to other worlds, veritable Digital, IMAX Digital, “way stations” in space enabling us to cross

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DREAM BIG: EARTHFLIGHT PRODUCER: National Geographic and THE FINAL ENGINEERING Presented in 3D Sean Casey PASSAGE WONDERS OF RELEASE: September 2016 DISTRIBUTOR: National Geographic Presented in 3D THE WORLD FORMATS: 2D and 3D, WEBSITE: extremeweatherfilm.com RELEASE: To be (rough cut) DCI-compliant Digital, CONTACT: Antonietta Monteleone, determined Presented in 2D IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser [email protected] FORMATS: 2D and 3D, RELEASE: February 17, 2017 LENGTH: 39:46 and 20:00 Weather is one of the most dynamic forces DCI-compliant Digital, FORMATS: 2D and 3D, (39:46 to screen in shaping our planet, but now it’s more IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, 15/70, DCI-compliant Toronto) complex and extreme than ever. Join RealD, Dolby 3D Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- PRODUCER: Productions and famed storm chaser and award-winning LENGTH: 28:00 customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital BBC Earth filmmaker Sean Casey to experience our PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Rup’ art Productions LENGTH: 40:00 DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth and Giant Screen most Extreme Weather. Travel to the edge WEBSITE: thefinalpassage.net PRODUCER: MacGillivray Freeman Films Films of 300-foot-tall glaciers collapsing in CONTACT: Martin Marquet, DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films CONTACT: Tom Rooney, Alaska, to the front lines of massive [email protected] Distribution Company [email protected] in the West, and directly in the Made entirely using 3D models, The Final WEBSITE: macgillivrayfreeman.com/ Earthflight 3D is a totally immersive path of , yet mesmerizing tornadoes Passage is an uninterrupted journey through dream-big/ experience, taking the audience on an in the plains. Watch as researchers and the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave whose steady CONTACT: Bob Harman, incredible flight across the world on the everyday heroes uncover surprising development approaches the experience of [email protected] wings of birds. Revolutionary aerial connections to help us understand and the first men who spent time in the cave Dream Big leverages the scale of the techniques and state-of-the-art 3D cameras adapt to our ever-changing weather. 36,000 years ago. An exclusive uncut giant screen to showcase the world’s most deliver the reality of flying right alongside sequence-shot filmed with a subjective incredible engineering marvels. From the birds as we join a variety of different species Great Wall of China and Dubai’s record- on their seasonal journeys. As we fly with reaching skyscrapers to ’s bridges the birds on their migrations, we discover soaring above and the futuristic the fascinating science of flight: how they Hyperloop, audiences will experience the maneuver simultaneously in flocks a million massive scale and the forces of that strong; manage immense journeys; navigate challenge their designers. Dream Big shows across whole and collaborate more than the ingenuity behind these with other animals to find food. It’s a marvels—it reveals the heart that drives thrilling experience as the audience is engineers to create better for people plunged into the center of the flock. worldwide. Audiences will meet engineers Earthflight 3D soars into the heart of the building bridges in Haiti so children can action as never before. safely go to school. They’ll root for students competing in an Australian Solar Challenge EXTREME to prove sustainable solar power is WEATHER (DD) achievable. With sweeping visuals, cutting- Presented in 3D edge CGI and extensive outreach programs, RELEASE: October 15, 2016 Dream Big celebrates engineers who push FORMATS: 2D and 3D, the limits of innovation and explores how 15/70, DCI-compliant we use science and technology to build, Digital, IMAX Digital, invent, and shape our world. Produced in IMAX Laser, Dome- partnership with the American Society of customized 15/70, Civil Engineers. Presented by Bechtel Fulldome Digital Corporation. LENGTH: 40:00

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camera allows us to discover in an immersive ’s coral reefs, and Mongolia’s vast INCREDIBLE in Toronto) manner one of the greatest sites of human grasslands. Learn how animals use sounds to PREDATORS PRODUCER: Giant Screen Films, Top history. Lions, mammoths, bears, and survive and communicate in lush but Presented in 3D Production China, Expanded Entertainment half-human, half-animal figures come to life threatened environments. Understand basic RELEASE DATE: December DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films in this never-before-seen, hyper-realistic acoustics through interactive activities and 2016 CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] digital reproduction. Discovered in 1994, the incredible slow-motion footage of pulsating FORMATS: 2D and 3D, Mysteries of China captures one of the great Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave has proven to be musical instruments, vibrating vocal chords, DCI-compliant Digital, archaeological events of the modern age, extraordinary, enormous, and sumptuously and slobbering “raspberries.” Discover what IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser telling the story of ancient China, the First beautiful. Today it is one of the oldest soundscapes tell us about the health of our LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 Emperor, and the literal foundation of the underground sanctuaries recognized in the planet. With Global Soundscapes’ unique (40:00 to screen in Toronto) China we know today. Through the lens of world. was produced with The Final Passage format—combining giant screen images, PRODUCER: Silverback Films and BBC Earth this groundbreaking discovery, we explore the support of the French Ministry of Culture surround sound, and live presentation—you’ll DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth and Giant Screen an ancient time when a fierce warrior and Communication, using the original 3D hear the Earth in a whole new way! This Films brought together a warring nation and how models produced for the official NSF-funded project includes citizen science CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] an accidental discovery changed everything archeological and scientific research activities, a gamified website, and an we know about China’s past. The discovery program of the Chauvet cave. The film is Incredible Predators deconstructs the world inquiry-based curriculum. of the Terracotta Warriors and the Tomb of available in both 3D and 2D formats and of major predators as never before, taking the First Emperor offers a unique time world premiered at the Getty Center in HURRICANE, A an intimate look at the remarkable strategies capsule into the past, revealing many things Los Angeles and at the Palais de Tokyo in WIND ODYSSEY they use to succeed. Advanced filming about this great country, which we use to Paris among other international cultural (rough cut) techniques expose the planet’s top institutions and major film events such as Presented in 3D predators in extraordinary footage, putting tell a larger story of the growth of China the historical Locarno Film Festival. RELEASE: September 2016 the audience right beside them as they into a true superpower. From modern China FORMATS: 2D and 3D, hunt—on land, under the sea, or in the air. to ancient China and back again, the film is GLOBAL DCI-compliant Digital, Far from a film about the kill, instead the a visual adventure, using beautiful aerial SOUNDSCAPES: Fulldome Digital audience will be emotionally engaged with photography and cutting-edge time-lapse MISSION TO LENGTH: 44:00 the key characters, learning how these techniques to reveal great majesty, tragedy, RECORD THE PRODUCER: Ouragan Films supreme species must be at the very peak of splendor and growth in a nation that EARTH (fine cut) DISTRIBUTOR: nWave Pictures Distribution performance to have any chance of success. continues to excel quickly into the future. Presented in 2D CONTACT: Janine Baker, Jennifer Lee Their backstory will be a key part of the NATIONAL PARKS Live presentation for flat RELEASE: July 2016 screen and dome audiences narrative; to understand a cheetah’s Hackett, Goedele Gillis, [email protected] ADVENTURE (DD) Co-production of Funded by FORMATS: 2D, DCI- This is the true story of a 15,000-kilometre dilemma you must meet her hungry cubs. compliant Digital, IMAX Presented in 3D journey in the footsteps of one of the most Top predators occupy an apex position Digital, IMAX Laser, Fulldome Digital INTERNATIONAL TITLE: devastating natural events on our planet: the within the habitats they dominate and, LENGTH: 40:00 America Wild: National Atlantic Hurricane. Our protagonist is both alongside dramatic animal behavior, PRODUCER: Foxfire Interactive Corp., Purue Parks Adventure shatteringly destructive and vital to life on Incredible Predators reveals the unique University, Masters Digital RELEASE DATE: February 12, earth. At its conception it is just a breeze. As relationship between predators and prey as DISTRIBUTOR: Foxfire Interactive Corp 2016 it sweeps across the African Sahel it becomes a fundamental building block of . WEBSITE: SoundscapeShow.com FORMATS: 2D and 3D, a life-giving monsoon before setting out across CONTACT: Brad Lisle, [email protected] MYSTERIES OF 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, the Atlantic as a deepening depression. The CHINA (DD) IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Immerse yourself in the amazing sounds of hurricane is the film’s main character, but the Presented in 3D Fulldome Digital, 10/70 our planet! Through giant screen images, supporting cast is the men, women, and RELEASE: October 7, 2016 LENGTH: 43:20 surround sound, and live presentation, Global animals that it encounters on its journey and FORMATS: 2D and 3D, PRODUCER: MacGillivray Freeman Films Soundscapes takes you on an ear-opening affects in some way, for better or for worse. 15/70, DCI-compliant DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films journey into the science of sound and the We will experience the storm in 3D. Serene Digital, IMAX Digital, Distribution Company emerging field of soundscape ecology. Embark and exquisitely beautiful from space, at IMAX Laser, Dome- WEBSITE: nationalparksadventure.com on a mission to investigate the dramatic ground level in the face of the screaming customized 15/70 CONTACT: Bob Harman, soundscapes of Costa Rica’s rainforests, wind, it is nothing less than terrifying. LENGTH: 37:37 and 20:00 (37:37 to screen [email protected]

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Narrated by Academy Award® winner, The Search for Life in Space is a journey that Robert Redford, National Parks Adventure is takes us from the depths of the Pacific , an immersive giant-screen experience that to Europa, the ice of Jupiter, back in takes audiences on the ultimate off-trail time to when was a virtual Eden, and adventure into the pristine of out into the far reaches of space in search of America’s great outdoors. Spectacularly wild planets like ours. It will make you re-examine and iconic places like Yosemite, Yellowstone, such fundamental questions as: “Where did the Everglades, Redwood, Canyonlands and we come from?”, “How did we get here?” more are illuminated as never before with and “Are we alone?” IMAX® 3D camera imagery. Audiences will VOYAGE OF TIME drop into the adventure with world-class mountaineer Conrad Anker, his son Alex Presented in 2D Lowe, and friend Rachel Pohl as they mountain RELEASE: October 7, 2016 bike ride, ice climb, and river raft their way FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, IMAX through the nation’s mountains and canyons, Digital, IMAX Laser then travel back in time to America’s most LENGTH: 45:00 famous camping trip where President Theodore PRODUCER: IMAX Roosevelt and renowned conservationist John Entertainment presents Muir imagined a vast National Parks system that in association with IMAX would preserve these national treasures forever. Documentary Films Capital and Knights of Released to coincide with the 100th Columbus A Broad Green Pictures and Anniversary of the U.S. National Parks, National Sophisticated Films Production Parks Adventure reveals a tapestry of natural DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation wonders that will inspire the adventurer in us all. WEBSITE: voyageoftime.imax.com CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] THE SEARCH FOR Voyage of Time is a one-of-a-kind celebration LIFE IN SPACE (DD) of life and the grand history of the cosmos, Presented in 3D transporting audiences into a vast yet RELEASE: September 2016 up-close-and personal journey that spans FORMATS: 3D, DCI- the eons from the Big Bang to the dinosaur compliant Digital, IMAX age to our present human world and beyond. Digital, IMAX Laser, A labor of love from acclaimed filmmaker Dome-customized 15/70 , it features awe-inspiring LENGTH: 33:00 images that take you into the heart of PRODUCER: December Media Pty. Ltd. monumental events—from the birth of the First Impressions Create Lasting Images. DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films and galaxies to the explosion of diverse CONTACT: Bob Harman, life-forms on —in immersive new [email protected] ways that only IMAX can deliver. This is a AMZ is one of the most experienced screen installation and cinema For science the heavy lifting is over, a new era cosmic experience—a hymn to the glories of rigging contractor in the world with over 2 million square feet of of space exploration has begun. It’s the search nature, life and scientific discovery — in which screens installed. Our installation portfolio in the 4k laser IMAX with to find something that changes everything… all the elements come together to form the Immersive audio is 8 projects in the last year alone. signs of life, somewhere else in the . Malick’s most original film to date. Narrated NASA is breaking ground on a new brand of by , Voyage of Time immerses Recommended by IMAX® as the rigging contractor. science, . We already know that audiences directly into the story of the life in space exists, because that’s what we universe and life itself. 905.761.6822 are, as are all things that live on our planet. AMZDESIGN.com [email protected]

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AMAZON ADVENTURE Jazz, , zydeco, old time country music Brian Kakuk, join a team of scientific cavers the story of a dapper young remittance Presented in 3D and many other variations on America’s in Minnesota led by Dr. Gina Moseley, and man who is sent from England to Alberta RELEASE: April 2017 musical heritage are at the heart of visit the gleaming clean room of cave to attempt ranching in 1909. Bonifacio in FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant America’s Treasures, a giant screen film climatologist Dr. Larry Edwards where the Summertime: Acolourful tale that Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- celebrating America’s vibrant cultural, samples are analyzed. Ancient Caves brings continues the adventures of Princess Molly customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital artistic and musical treasures that reflect science and adventure together as two cave and her three best friends. Sunday: This LENGTH: 45:00 the diversity of our nation. Join a group of climatologists attempt to solve the ice age Oscar®-nominated animated short is a PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films emerging musicians and discover the riddle. Ancient Caves is the first giant screen magical tale about life as seen through the CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, [email protected] colorful locales and cultures where their film in perhaps 30 years that is being shot eyes of a child. The Necktie: A mixture of music is born. Travel up the Mississippi exclusively for the OMNIMAX dome format. puppet and hand-drawn animation, tells Amazon Adventure tells the exciting story of Henry Bates’ fascinating 11-year journey Delta, the birthplace of jazz and blues, and Caves offer the perfect environment for the the story of Valentin and his quest to find through the perilous as explore the genre’s evolution into Mo-town, immersive nature of the dome theater! meaning in his life. Carface: A Chevrolet Bel hip hop, and rap. Discover the roots of Air 1957 offers an ironic take on the iconic a young man who risks his life for science. ASTEROID IMPACT bluegrass, country, folk and more from American ballad “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever As in any great detective story, audiences Presented in 2D will experience the compelling clues Bates Nashville to the Wild West. Jam with Will Be, Will Be.)” Madame Tutli-Putli: This rockers and pop stars on the West Coast RELEASE: 2018 Oscar®-nominated stop-motion animated unearths in his major discovery of the FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, phenomenon of “Batesian” mimicry, and dance all night at an electronica film takes viewers on an exhilarating festival. America’s Treasures is a musical IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 existential journey into the fully imagined, whereby certain animals develop the look of LENGTH: 40:00 others and thus can deceive predators and ride that will have you singing and dancing tactile world of Madame Tutli-Putli. With a across the nation. Available February 2018. PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation reputation for breaking new ground in both prey—all unfolding in the visually stunning CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] and bio-diverse Amazon. Although the form and content of animated films, ANCIENT CAVES Asteroid Impact will reveal the origins of unknown to the general public, Bates made documentaries, multiplatform digital Presented in 2D asteroids and the effects of previous Earth crucial contributions to evolutionary projects, and more recently, fulldome RELEASE: November 2017 impacts. Delve into the threat these celestial . While identifying 8,000 species films and virtual reality, the NFB brings a FORMATS: 2D, Dome-customized 15/70 masses pose to our planet today, and new to science, he discovered the “beautiful selection of their best animated films to LENGTH: 45:00 examine how we monitor their trajectory proof” for what is widely considered the the big screen for the first time. PRODUCER: Oceanic Research Group in order to stay out of their deadly path. most important explanation of the DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Through a tour of the solar system and a CUBA development of life on Earth—natural Distribution close look at the “city-buster” asteroid, Presented in 2D selection. With a team of over 100 scientific WEBSITE: facebook.com/AncientCaves/ Apophis, this new IMAX documentary will RELEASE: Summer 2017 and historical advisors, Amazon Adventure CONTACT: Dona Harman, tell you everything about the massive space FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant has undergone unparalleled research to [email protected] rocks that shape our universe through Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- ensure accuracy and bring this incredible A small team of divers descends into a deep amazing and devastating collisions. customized 15/70 story to life on the giant screen. underwater cave in the Bahamas. There is LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 BEST NFB ANIMATED SHORTS AMERICA’S TREASURES no light. The only way home: a string. They PRODUCER: Golden Gate 3D in Association Presented in 2D with BBC Earth and Giant Screen Films Presented in 2D have just enough air to complete their RELEASE: Fall 2016 DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films RELEASE: February 2018 mission, the retrieval of an ancient data FORMATS: 2D, DCP 4K LENGTH: 25:00 CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant sample recorded by nature eons ago during PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: National Film Board Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- an ice age. Ancient Caves takes the Cuba tells the powerful story of a land of Canada customized 15/70, Fulldome audience on a journey through geological preserved in time yet poised today on CONTACT: Mia Desroches, [email protected] LENGTH: 40:00 time on a mission to unlock the secrets of the cusp of dramatic change. The island PRODUCER: MacGillivray Freeman Films ancient change. Viewers fly over Compilation of the National Film Board’s nation’s vibrant culture, meticulously DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films Death Valley and down into a large crevice best animated shorts. For all ages. If I Was maintained colonial architecture, and Distribution Company filled with hot water from deep inside the God: In this short animated film, a Grade 7 pristine all provide a vivid CONTACT: Bob Harman, Earth. They swim through stunning crystal boy’s mind starts to wander while window into the past. Cuba will transport [email protected] formations with world-renown cave diver dissecting a frog in Biology class. Wildlife: audiences across breathtaking island This Oscar®-nominated animated short tells

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landscapes, under the ocean surface to DINOSAURS OF CHINA After a tragic accident, world-renowned FISH EYE PROJECT dazzling reefs and groundbreaking scientific Presented in 2D neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange Presented in 2D research, and into the streets throbbing RELEASE: 2017 must put ego aside and learn the secrets of RELEASE: To be announced with music and dance in the heart of FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant a hidden world of mysticism and alternate FORMATS: 2D, IMAX Digital Havana. Through the eyes of Cuban artists, Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- dimensions in order to defeat dark forces Length: 40:00 historians, and , audiences will customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital beyond reality as we know it. PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Fish Eye Project have a rare opportunity to explore this LENGTH: 40:00 DUNKIRK: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE WEBSITE: fisheyeproject.org amazing country at a pivotal moment in its PRODUCER: St. Thomas Productions CONTACT: Maeva Gauthier, Presented in 2D history. Filmed for the first time in 3D and DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications [email protected] RELEASE: July 21, 2017 exclusively for the giant screen, the film will CONTACT: Mark Kresser, FORMATS: 2D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, IMAX Imagine your audience can go diving in reveal why Cuba continues to stir the [email protected] real-time­ without getting wet. Have the imagination of the world. Laser On the green slopes of giant volcanoes LENGTH: To be determined opportunity to ask questions, interact with DINO DANA—JOURNEY TO lives Microraptor. Not a , nor a normal PRODUCER: RatPac-Dune Entertainment, marine scientists online and have the chance THE CENTER OF THE HERD dinosaur: with four wings, this small, Syncopy and Warner Bros. of their questions being answered by the feathered dinosaur glides between trees in Presented in 3D DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. Pictures onsite dive team LIVE. Welcome to live search of lizards or insects to feed its young. RELEASE DATE: Summer 2018 CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] interactive cinema, a real-time adventure Being tiny exposes it to various threats from like never before. June 8, 2016, Emerald FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser its neighbors: on the ground, Sinosauropteryx— Forest marked the first live underwater a squirrel version of Velociraptor—and the Canada, and France are surrounded by the LENGTH: 40:00 interactive production and was shown in massive Yutyranus—a sort of feathered German army and evacuated during a PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Sinking Ship three giant screen theatres and two smaller T-Rex—roam in search of dinner. Highly fierce battle in World War II. Co-produced, Entertainment theatres across Canada. The production exposed on the ground, Microraptor can written, and directed by Christopher Nolan. CONTACT: Kate Sanagan, reached hundreds in theatres and thousands only climb trees to escape. Its neighbours [email protected] FANTASTIC BEASTS AND online, prompting Fish Eye Project to have other strategies: primitive mammals WHERE TO FIND THEM: launch a production calendar of international Nine-year-old Dana is ecstatic when she rely on dens to hide in and poisonous heel AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE dive sites. With Fish Eye Project, theatre- is invited to join a dinosaur dig by one of spurs to inflict deadly wounds; coloured Presented in 3D goers receive an immersive experience as her paleontological heroes. After much Caudipteryx—a peacock version of a small RELEASE: November 18, 2016 they embark on live underwater expeditions begging, Dana’s family heads out west on Velociraptor—or “Pyjama raptor”—another FORMATS: 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser to spectacular marine environments such a cross-country road trip in Dad’s old RV. fluffy raptor—have to run through the maze LENGTH: To be determined as the infamous Great Barrier , running Dana is amazed to discover they are of trees to confuse their predators. Every PRODUCER: Heyday Films wild with salmon, explore iconic shipwrecks keeping pace with a giant migrating minute, Microraptor battles to survive: DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. Pictures or swim with a Giant Pacific octopus off dinosaur herd filled with herbivores of all Darwinopterus pterosaurs attack through CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] the coast of Canada. This is live interactive shapes and sizes. Thanks to the power of the canopy, winter brings and alternative content and a different her transforming dinosaur backpack, Dana volcanoes spew deadly clouds of ashes. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them production is planned every two months. uses every pit stop as an opportunity to Will Microraptor thrive long enough to give opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just join the herd and learns the herbivores are its chicks a chance to flee and venture out completed a global excursion to find and FULL-CHARGE: THE POWER being tracked by several carnivore packs. of their nest? document an extraordinary array of OF INNOVATION When Dana saves a baby Edmontosaurus magical creatures. Arriving in New York Presented in 3D from a hungry T-rex, she gets separated DR. STRANGE: for a brief stopover, he might have come AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE RELEASE: 2017 from her family and has to rely on the dino and gone without incident…were it not for FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, Presented in 3D herd to get back to them. In this action- a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- RELEASE: November 4, 2016 packed family adventure, Dana has the Jacob, misplaced magical case, and the customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital FORMATS: 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser dino-experience of a lifetime and solves escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, LENGTH: 40:00 LENGTH: To be determined one of her most important experiments: which could spell trouble for both the PRODUCER: N3D Land Films PRODUCER: Marvel Studios what lies at the center of a dinosaur herd? wizarding and No-Maj worlds. DISTRIBUTOR: nWave Pictures Distribution DISTRIBUTOR: Walt Disney Studios WEBSITE: fullcharge-thefilm.com/ CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected]

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CONTACT: Janine Baker, Jennifer Lee place that most humans will never have the INFERNO: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE Following the 2014 success of the global Hackett, Goedele Gillis, [email protected] chance to set foot, revealing extraordinary Presented in 2D reinvention of the Godzilla franchise, Using immersive cinema techniques, including perspectives and immersing them in thrilling RELEASE: October 28, 2016 Legendary and Warner Bros. have come traditional animation and spectacular aerial moments of adrenaline, culture, and science. FORMATS: 2D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser together again to create an epic, new shared cinematic franchise. It’s a powerful shots, Full Charge brings to life the story of IN THE WAKE OF THE DOLPHIN LENGTH: To be determined electricity. From the first spark created by PRODUCER: Imagine Entertainment, Skylark human drama, unmissable spectacle and Presented in 2D man’s hand, through the age of “miracles” Productions new vision of nature’s true King. Kong: Skull RELEASE: Spring 2018 to the first power plants, through the industrial DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Island invites audiences on an uncharted FORMATS: 2D, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX revolution to present day applications. We CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] journey into the heart of one of the Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome-customized follow the stories of pioneers, scientists, and ® greatest myths. 15/70, Fulldome Digital Academy Award winner Ron Howard inventors driven by curiosity and innovation: LENGTH: 40:00 returns to direct the latest bestseller in MAXIMUM POWER from Benjamin Franklin’s kite to Solar Impulse, PRODUCER: Milbrand Cinema Dan Brown’s (Da Vinci Code) billion-dollar the first solar-powered plane capable of Presented in 2D DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced Robert Langdon series, Inferno, which finds RELEASE: Fall 2017 perpetual flight. Today, electricity is WEBSITE: inthewakeofthedolphin.com the famous symbologist (again played by FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant indispensable. As the of choice CONTACT: Lance Milbrand, Tom Hanks) on a trail of clues tied to the Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- for innovators, electricity will power our [email protected] great Dante himself. When Langdon wakes customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital future...as long as it can be produced in up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he This story is about the life of an Atlantic LENGTH: 40:00 a clean and sustainable way. Full Charge teams up with Sienna Brooks (Felicity bottlenose dolphin, a wildlife ambassador PRODUCER: Masters Digital and 144 examines how renewable energy can help Jones), a doctor he hopes will help him named Han Solo. One day along a beautiful Productions us fight global warming without harming recover his memories. Together, they race coral reef, Han showed up outside a dolphin DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined our quality of life…on the contrary! Audiences across and against the clock to foil enclosure. The trainers quickly did a head CONTACT: Tim Archer, [email protected] will have fun as we spark their imaginations a deadly global plot. and discover how the greatest forces of count and determined none of their dolphin What is electricity? How many people does nature can help make our planet cooler. were missing. Interesting, outside looking JACK REACHER: NEVER GO it take to turn on a light bulb? How much in, this wild dolphin, free to swim wherever BACK: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE energy does it take to do a Google search? GREENLAND he chose wanted to be near humans and Presented in 2D Most significantly: Are we running out of Presented in 2D his own species. Han is special because his RELEASE: October 21, 2016 energy sources? As demand for power is RELEASE: 2018 life has bridged two worlds, one as a wild FORMATS: 2D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser ever increasing, science is examining new FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant dolphin, and the other as part of a group LENGTH: TBD power sources such as Solar, Geothermal, Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- of dolphins under managed care. Han will PRODUCER: Skydance Media, TC Productions Wind and Biomass along with the more customized 15/70, Fulldome be filmed inside a dolphin enclosure, DISTRIBUTOR: familiar Fossil Fuels, Hydro and Nuclear. LENGTH: 42:00 swimming free with his buddies over CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] Maximum Power explores the physics PRODUCER: Golden Gate 3D / beautiful coral reefs, sand channels and the Set four years since the first film events, surrounding the science of electricity from Teton Gravity Research open ocean, connecting our story and Jack Reacher is returning to the headquarters electrons and amps to volts, watts and DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined many of its inhabitants. Han will contribute of his old military unit, but reveals that he is current. The audience is introduced to the CONTACT: Peter Chang, [email protected] to our understanding of dolphin behaviors, now accused of a 16-year-old homicide, founding fathers of electricity such as Greenland is the story of adventuring with and he will be the hook that allows us to and finds out that it is only a part of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, James a purpose, as renowned climate scientists showcase his marine world. Kathleen something bigger than he thought before. Watt, Nikola Tesla and many more. Maximum and legendary extreme athletes voyage Dudzinski Ph.D. is our marine science advisor Power will engage audiences through beyond the limits of human exploration. and educator. Kathleen will also be shown KONG: SKULL ISLAND: amazing visuals, awe-inspiring animation On this journey they will discover a singular on camera conducting science in our movie. AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE and spellbinding soundscapes. Through culture, encounter unexplored and Our giant screen audience today would Presented in 3D state of the art immersive giant screen slopes, and uncover a scientific mystery remember her from the great MacGillivray RELEASE: March 10, 2017 technology, audiences are taken on an that will impact the planet. With a thrilling Freeman Dolphins project in 2000. FORMATS: 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser electrifying journey of discovery. Electricity story and experience crafted for the giant LENGTH: TBD , PRODUCER: Legendary Pictures might seem mysterious but once you screen, Greenland will take audiences to a DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. Pictures understand the science…the light goes on. CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected]

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MOBY DUCK increasing, expanding our frontiers of ROGUE ONE: A WARS the ultimate in indiscriminate coupling— Presented in 2D knowledge and revealing richer diversity STORY: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE but then reveals the intimate and social RELEASE: 2018 than we could ever have imagined. From Presented in 3D bonding behaviour of the ocean’s real FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, the freezing shores of the Arctic to the RELEASE: December 16, 2016 lovers. Filmed with newly developed 3D IMAX Laser balmy waters of the and the ocean FORMATS: 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser underwater housing technology by a Length: 40:00 depths, we share these extraordinary new LENGTH: TBD cameraman with over 15 years’ experience PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation discoveries. Using revolutionary underwater PRODUCER: Lucasfilm filming underwater, Sea of Love offers a CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] and on-board filming technology, we’ll dive DISTRIBUTOR: Walt Disney Studios sharpness and quality never before After a huge storm batters a ship in the into the giant void of the big blue, to CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] experienced. This film is being shot natively north Pacific, its cargo of thousands of explore the most spectacular locations, Rogue One takes you to a galaxy far, far at 6K and 8K in High Frame Rate rubber ducks is lost at sea. Years later, the dramatic events and the intimate lives of away in an all-new epic action-adventure Stereoscopic 3D. Delivery formats will ducks wash up on beaches in Alaska and the ocean’s most extraordinary creatures. thriller from Lucasfilm. In a time of war, a include a 48fps per eye 4K HFR S3D version. Through these encounters we’ll also eventually around the world. The group of unlikely heroes band together on SOAR discover how we all depend on the health mysterious voyage of these ducks is the a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, Presented in 2D of this, the largest environment on earth. the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. inspiration behind this whimsical and RELEASE: Fall 2017 This key even in the timeline brings revealing scientific adventure. Moby Duck PONDEMONIUM Star Wars FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, explores several interlocking threads such Presented in 2D together ordinary people who choose to IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser do extraordinary things and thereby part of as how oceanic currents work, the effects RELEASE: January 2018 LENGTH: 38:00 something greater than themselves. of plastic on wildlife like fish and birds, and FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant PRODUCER: RPG Productions the phenomenon of gyres and the Great Digital, IMAX Digital SEA OF LOVE DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced Pacific Garbage Patch. It’s a story about LENGTH: 40:00 Presented in 3D CONTACT: Jen Casey, inquiry and how something as simple PRODUCER: Archipelago Films Arise Media [email protected] and familiar as a rubber ducky and can RELEASE: 2018 DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined Soar puts the audience in the cockpit of a reveal natural mysteries as deep as the FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, CONTACT: Susan Todd, high performance sailplane and takes them ocean itself. IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Fulldome Digital, [email protected] HFR 4K 3D to places they’ve never been—in aircraft OCEANS: Pondemonium is a 3D giant screen film LENGTH: 45:00 that are powered only by the energy of the Presented in 2D shot in a suburban woods where humans PRODUCER: Achtel / House of 3D atmosphere. Soar follows three stories: RELEASE: December 2018 and wildlife mingle. The film overturns DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced Lizzy Roberts, a young pilot who wants to FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, convention by taking the point-of-view of WEBSITE: www.achtel.com solo on her 14th birthday as part of her IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser the animals as they observe a human family CONTACT: Pawel Achtel, quest to become a jet pilot; Jim Payne and LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 living in their midst—in fleeting glimpses [email protected] the Perlan Project, who are building a craft PRODUCER: BBC Earth and Alucia and snatches of conversation. The dramas We often overlook the presence of love in to fly to 90,000’, the edge of space, for Productions and beauty of forest life are captured in the life of sea animals—within their families, scientific and atmospheric research, using DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth and Giant Screen rare intimacy by immersive 3D cameras— communities, schools, and friendship the mountain wave and Polar Vortex Films mounted inside dens and nests, moving circles. Sea of Love explores the many phenomena to soar to a height never CONTACT: Tom Rooney, along forest floor and pond bottom, and ways marine animals show their love for before attained by winged aircraft, all [email protected] revealing through time lapse marvels of one another. Watch underwater beings without the aid of engines; and Sebastian nature invisible to the human eye. But the Kawa, a Polish glider pilot and 9-time Oceans: The Blue Planet is an extraordinary develop friendships, romantic liaisons, journey of discovery and wonder, transporting modern family dwelling in the woods is parental bonds, and fulfill their community World Glider Champion, as he trains in the the audience to the deep, mysterious worlds blind to the real-life spectacle around it, duties. Whether it involves sacrifice, European Alps for an attempt to regain his of our oceans. Packed with drama, awe and absorbed by its array of electronic sharing and caring, or flirting, singing, title in the 2016 World Championships in spectacle, we reveal untold stories of the devices—until a twist of fate in the film’s dancing and romancing, the theme is one South . Both science and human ocean’s most astonishing creatures. The climax awakens them to the infinite of attraction, attachment and care for experience come alive in an exhilarating, oceans are the only place on earth where wonders of life in the wild. others. It begins where love is irrelevant— immersive experience. the rate of new scientific discovery is with the spectacle of mass coral spawning,

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STAR the surface, giving birth to some of the WINGSUIT FLYERS without assistance, like winged life that Presented in 2D most spectacular and biologically diverse Presented in 3D called the sky home. Witness these true RELEASE: 2018 landscapes. From the jungle habitats of RELEASE: 2017 adventurers attempt to use their skills to FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant the mountain gorilla, to the Serengeti FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, defy gravity, as they fly some of the most Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- Plains, and the underwater paradise of the IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser exotic places on the planet, including customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital Komodo Islands, all have been forged by LENGTH: 40:00 Mount Everest, Switzerland’s Jungfrau LENGTH: 40:00 fire. There are over 500 active volcanoes PRODUCER: Grand Schema, Inc. rock face, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa high rise, PRODUCER: Spring Garden Pictures on earth, on a sea of roiling magma DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications and Giant South Africa’s Drakensberg, and even DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined beneath the crust and shifting tectonic Screen Films between New York’s high rises. Audiences CONTACT: Richard Power Hoffman, plates. The earth is literally bursting at its CONTACT: Mark Kresser, will have a point of view experience that [email protected] seams. Join us as we explore some of the [email protected] will make palms sweat and give vertigo Star begins as a fictional story about kids hottest spots on the planet. Human beings Soar with the world’s premiere wingsuit new meaning. in the city who see the stars for the first have bent the natural world to our will; pilots, Jeb Corliss and Joby Ogwyn, as time. This sparks their curiosity about mining its riches, cutting down forests and they fly “around the world” their way, their place in the Universe, and leads paving over natural . But while seeing incredible sights, sounds and them to become sidewalk astronomers. scientists can increasingly predict them cultures … and making epic wingsuit flights Difficult concepts are made simple with more accurately, volcanoes cannot in the most spectacular locales on the the help of a tech-savvy grandfather, be tamed. planet. Humans have always wanted to fly, whose augmented reality glasses WILD BAHAMA transform the city into a scale model of Presented in 2D the solar system. The film crosses over RELEASE: to be determined into documentary as the crew takes an FORMATS: 2D, IMAX Digital exciting road trip to the path of totality of LENGTH: 1:00:00 the actual solar eclipse that will happen PRODUCER/DISTRIBUTOR: Parallax Film across America in the summer of 2017. Productions Designed primarily for GS domes and CONTACT: Dalila Jovanovic, fulldomes, Star is a real science fiction [email protected] film that is a wholly original and unforgettable experience. Past the white sand beaches and the idyllic turquoise water, the 3,000 islands and VOLCANOES — LAND OF FIRE islets of the Bahamas lay scattered across Presented in 2D nearly 170,000 square kilometers of the RELEASE: April 2018 . Wild Bahama is the FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Bahamas beyond the beaches. Explore Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- worlds where everything is eating…or customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital being eaten, but fierce competition gives LENGTH: 42:00 way to playful and funny creatures, just PRODUCER: Digital Crossing Films staking their claim. This a magical place DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films where plants are sprinkled with CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, shimmering dust and seahorses feed, [email protected] almost without fear. Captured in 4k There are few forces on earth that equal cinematography, combined with intimate the explosive power and natural beauty aerials, extraordinary macro photography of erupting volcanoes. They hold us in and signature “ lapses,” this is the awe and in fear. Yet volcanoes are earth’s Bahamas you’ve never seen before and master builders—shaping and reshaping will want to share.

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AMAZING ANIMALS: work together to create a new morph into the present day reality. Our CLEOPATRA’S LOST WORLD BACK FROM THE BRINK framework that will support the needs expedition seeks the original locations to RELEASE: April 2018 RELEASE: 2018 of both humanity and our animal show how Antarctica has changed in the FORMATS: 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI- counterparts. Acclaimed wildlife Director last 100 years through pressures of Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX and Cinematographer Sean Casey takes adventure tourism, international Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome the audience on a global journey, using Antarctic treaties and Digital Digital the immersive technology that only the and show this in 3D and VR. LENGTH: 40:00 LENGTH: 40:00 3D giant screen format can provide. THE BUMBLEBEE QUEEN PRODUCER: CineNova Productions PRODUCER: Jen Casey Productions and DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films ANTARCTIC ENDURANCE 3D RELEASE: 2018 K2 Communications WEBSITE: cinenova.com RELEASE: January 2019 FORMATS: 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications CONTACT: David Lint, FORMATS: 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, CONTACT: Mark Kresser, [email protected] Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome [email protected] Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital Cleopatra became Egyptian Pharaoh Humanity’s self-proclaimed title as Digital, VR LENGTH: 40:00 at just 18 and spent her short life in Earth’s Stewards comes with great LENGTH: 40:00 PRODUCER: Principal Large Format Alexandria and in two nearby cities on responsibility. As populations continue PRODUCER: Avatar Media DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced the Nile Delta. Most of her world has to increase and expand, and industry DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced WEBSITE: bumblebeequeen.co.uk since disappeared: what happened? stretches across the planet along with WEBSITE: avatarmedia.com CONTACT: Phil Streather, [email protected] Catastrophic earthquakes and tsunami. them, the future for the natural world is Ours is a Cleopatra detective story. CONTACT: Jaro Malanowski, All over the northern hemisphere, as uncertain. Amazing Animals: Back from Sometimes the clues are close-by; others [email protected] winter turns to spring, mated bumblebee the Brink will paint a modern picture of take us beyond the Delta, down the Through our quest to find the shooting queens emerge from hibernation, the environmental sustainability and the valley of the Nile, and beyond to Greece locations of Frank Hurley’s photos and only survivors of all bumblebees from the hope for a path to sustained coexistence. and Italy. Our “lead detective” is films, we explore the life of adventure previous year. Humans need bumblebees. Through the lens of some of the world’s celebrated maritime archaeologist photographer for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Almost a third of the food we eat comes most amazing animals, we will see how Franck Goddio. His is one of the great expedition to Antarctica. We will from plants pollinated by bees and other innovative -level solutions can scientific explorations of the 21st immerse audiences into Hurley’s journey pollinators. Our story is about one queen bring these endangered species, and the Century. He has found Cleopatra’s of shipwreck, endurance, and hope. The in Britain. On an ancient and magical diminishing habitats in which they thrive, drowned ancient cities at Alexandria, and eternal optimist, master photographer, country estate of meadows, walled back from the brink. By taking a broader, at nearby Heracleion and Canopus. His and one of the earliest large format gardens, greenhouses and formal more sustainable approach to preserving scientific team’s proprietary technology documentary filmmakers, he creates an landscapes her is to bring up the these animals, we look not only at includes a dynamic GPS 3D mapping exceptional record of one of the most next generation of kings and queens. Our species that are struggling but the system to push the boundaries of incredible stories of human survival— queen must overcome everything nature designs of the systems in which they virtual archaeology. He reveals a huge where the entire crew survived over throws at her to achieve her goal. From a live. Entire ecosystems—biological 120-square-kilometer site. From the two and a half years of being stranded in badger destroying her first nest, to the communities created through millions site, the unknown lost cities appear. We the beautiful, yet unforgiving and harsh crab spiders lying in ambush on the of years of evolutionary interactions reenact Cleopatra—at Court, at temple Antarctic landscape. This scripted 3D flowers she depends on and ultimately between —are at risk as well. and at play. Shot partly underwater, giant screen film and VR story will place anarchy within her own colony. This is To protect the habitat that supports partly topside, the film will take audiences on the ice with the Endurance nature drama for the giant screen at its those species and preserve services we audiences to astonishing vvplaces expedition in the background through best; good science, breath-taking humans rely on, from cleansing water they have never seen before. re-enactments of Hurley’s POV, photography and an important story. for our cities and homes to mitigating demonstrating tireless endeavors to Enter the magical world...of impacts of climate change, we need The document the daily lives of the crew. . to save not just species, but also Bumblebee Queen Watch remastered footage as Hurley ecosystems, from extinction. It is people turns the handle of his movie camera on every level, from corporations to to show the everyday struggles which communities to individuals, that must

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COOL PLANET change of them all...life. Earth Story takes RELEASE: 2018 us on a visual journey to see our world FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI- during its birth, its infancy and its compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX adolescence. Earth Story allows viewers Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome to see our home’s glorious history using Digital the power of 3D IMAX. Discover that our LENGTH: 40:00 world was once stranger than science PRODUCER: K2 Films fiction and more visually spectacular DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications than our wildest dreams. CONTACT: Mark Kresser, EINSTEIN’S INCREDIBLE [email protected] UNIVERSE Cool Planet is an immersive global RELEASE: 2019 journey that explores how science and FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI- technology together with a cultural compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX renaissance is opening the door to a Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome sustainable future in many of the world’s Digital most iconic mega-cities. The film will LENGTH: 45:00 offer a practical vision for more livable PRODUCER: Cosmic Picture cities that all people of all continents can DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced connect with and be part of. We will CONTACT: Daniel Ferguson, showcase the human stories and [email protected] real-world solutions that provide hope Today Albert Einstein is regarded as the for a planet that can not only survive, but most famous of all time, his thrive for countless generations to come. name shorthand for genius, yet few of us EARTH STORY fully understand his discoveries and their RELEASE: October 2017 impact on our lives. Now through a FORMATS: 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, combination of stunning live-action YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE AN EXPERT cinematography and immersive CGI, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- TO RECOGNIZE A GREAT PERFORMANCE customized 15/70 audiences will experience first-hand the LENGTH: 36:00 visceral “thought experiments” at the USHIO lamps offer great performance with an extremely long lifetime. The superior quality heart of Einstein’s radical new vision of PRODUCER: December Media Pty. Ltd. in brightness, contrast, color and sharpness on your cinema screen will constantly DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films the universe. Along the way, we will impress your audience. Our consistent performance and reliability are unmatched. That’s CONTACT: Bob Harman, come to appreciate how so many [email protected] innovations we take for granted stem why huge majority of movie theaters around the globe already trust the USHIO products. from his imagination and how his General If the history of the earth were a 24-hour Additionally: Only USHIO lamps are tested, approved and certi ed by all projector Theory of Relativity remains the basis of clock, then humans have only existed for nearly every current theory about how manufacturers including Barco, NEC and Sony. just over a minute. This is the story of the the cosmos works, from black holes and rest of it. And what a story it is. Earth’s time travel to the recent discovery of USHIO is an Exclusive Distributor of history is nothing if not dramatic. It has gravitational waves. had to cope with at least five major extinction events. It has seen Washer & Dryer System for 3-D Glasses. monumental change—the creation of an atmosphere, the formation of water, the emergence of a magnetic field. All three of which led to the most monumental

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EXTREME EARTH will take domestic and international Embark on a 140-mile journey for the PRODUCER: Know Rules Media ultimate test of body, mind and spirit DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation RELEASE: To be confirmed audiences on an unforgettable when the famous IRONMAN World CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant underwater adventure revealed through Championship, arguably the most Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser the eyes of people whose lives are The Kepler Telescope has discovered difficult one-day sporting event in the LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 intimately connected by the Reef. over 3,200 confirmed in world, is brought to life on the IMAX PRODUCER: BBC Earth the Galaxy alone and has HUMAN BODY screen. Against the backdrop of the Big DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth and Giant unlocked mysteries of the universe RELEASE: To be confirmed Island of Hawaii, 2,000 athletes battle Screen Films greater than anyone could have possibly FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant 45-mph crosswinds, 95-degree CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] imagined. NASA, SETI and international Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser temperatures and a scorching sun institutions around the globe have The planet’s forces are so much more LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 through barren lava fields and along the turned their gaze to solve and explain powerful than us. Volcanoes. Storms. PRODUCER: BBC Earth Kona Coast. Experience the intensity, these amazing phenomenon however, Avalanches. They’re spectacular, but DISTRIBUTOR: BBC Earth and Giant emotion and physical demands of this some of their natural explanations have volatile and destructive. Extreme Earth Screen Films dramatic triathlon competition and been disproven. Join us as we travel to transports us to the very edge of these CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] discover how the mind is the most the most mysterious place in the galaxy. fearsome spectacles, using Iceland as There is a story that unites everyone on powerful element in the human body. Journey to the Future centers on the a window into the dangerous natural earth, because of the one thing we all potential for signs of intelligent life in forces that shape our world. In the JOURNEY TO THE FUTURE have in common, the most mind-blowing the universe, exploring current scientific middle of these unimaginable forces is RELEASE: 2019 machine we know of in the Universe— discoveries that may change our a land people call home—nourished by FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, the human body. This film is a fantastic understanding of the universe and its thermal power and the bountiful seas— IMAX Laser voyage through the body to discover impact on humanity. but always at risk from the next LENGTH: 40:00 how we all achieve the complex cataclysmic event. We see this land balancing act of being alive. Using the through the eyes of its rugged latest breakthroughs in medical imaging, inhabitants. Using custom-built, cameras combined with state-of-the-art 3D mounted on helmets and bodies expert photo-real animation, this is your body adventurers and scientists take us as you’ve never seen or understood it directly into worlds we could never visit before. The latest science provides ourselves, even if we dared. Joining fascinating insight into the extraordinary courageous explorers in their quest to world within us all. Human Body will take understand these immense forces so we you to incredible places around world, can live alongside them, Extreme Earth sharing personal stories and events that reveals the raw power of our planet more individual people experience, to reveal intensely than ever before. the unseen and often unbelievable GREAT BARRIER REEF 3D actions that go on inside us every day. RELEASE: October 2017 This is a film is for anybody who has a FORMATS: 3D, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX body—for all of us. Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome-customized IRONMAN 15/70 RELEASE: 2018 LENGTH: 36:00 FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, PRODUCER: December Media Pty. Ltd. IMAX Laser DISTRIBUTOR: MacGillivray Freeman Films LENGTH: 40:00 CONTACT: Bob Harman, PRODUCER: Wasserman Media [email protected] DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation Through a positive immersive 3D giant CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] screen experience, Great Barrier Reef 3D

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MAXIMUS 3D: RISE OF THE PRODUCER: Jamieson Films scientists discover his work and bring otherworldly archipelagos of Titan in the JURASSIC SUPER TITAN DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced him to China to lead a bold new project shadow of Saturn’s dreamy rings. The RELEASE: 2018 CONTACT: David Critchley, preparing captive-bred panda cubs to Planets is journey from science fiction to FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI- [email protected] leave their coddled world behind and set “science vision,” an aspirational look at compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX A future documentary. Meet seven off on a wild adventure in the snowy the next century in human spacefaring Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome characters from seven continents, living mountains of Sichuan. achievement, profiling the technological Digital and pioneering stepping stones thought in the 22nd century. Can you recall life THE PLANETS LENGTH: 40:00 without rock ‘n’ roll or pop music? necessary for humankind to become a RELEASE: 2018 PRODUCER: Myth Merchant Films Fashion sans bikinis and mini-skirts? truly interplanetary species. From moon FORMATS: 2D and 3D, DCI-compliant DISTRIBUTOR: SK Films Dancing without swing or hip hop? What bases and space elevators to mining Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser WEBSITE: ww.skfilms.ca grand and minute ideas and discoveries outposts and aerostatic habitats, the LENGTH: 40:00 and 20:00 CONTACT: Amber Hawtin, will exist in 2101? Seven segments will film will profile the dreamers of today — PRODUCER: Giant Screen Films and [email protected] profile the experiences of individuals engineers and artists from universities, K2 Communications living in the next century. Through their international space agencies and the Hidden in Colorado mudstone for 150 DISTRIBUTOR: Giant Screen Films, stories, we will witness realistic concepts private enterprise—whose proof-of- million years, the prehistoric bones D3D Cinema, K2 Communications and discoveries that are likely to exist— concept technologies and mind-blowing unearthed in 1878 were enormous—the CONTACT: Tom Rooney, [email protected] largest dinosaur fossils ever discovered. with an emphasis on those of a creative, innovations could allow our children’s Scale the poisonous volcanoes of Venus As the Bone Wars raged across the artistic and social nature. Equally, we will children to push ever deeper into a solar and the ancient red dunes of Mars. Bore American West, earth’s long-held secret see where science has been inspired or system both beautiful and bizarre. through the icy crust of Europa to revealed a massive sauropod spanning informed by a creative process. The imagine life in hidden seas. Navigate the 190 feet, standing taller than a four-story futuristic concepts and stories will be building. Amphicoelias fragillimus, based on balanced, peer-reviewed nicknamed Maximus, fended off the research and interviews covering a broad fiercest predators with its unimaginable range of culture and experience. We will size and a powerful tail the length of a see new directions in food, work, fashion, blue whale, thought to unleash at architecture, music, dance and supersonic speed. In the modern-day horticulture in society; as well as witness challenge to reconstruct Maximus as a whole new fields of human endeavour. towering full-scale skeleton, a team of PANDAS scientists unravel the titan’s untold RELEASE: 2017 mysteries and the bitter rivalry between FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, IMAX Digital, 19th century pioneers of paleontology IMAX Laser leading to its discovery. It’s a high-tech LENGTH: 40:00 resurrection never attempted...until now. PRODUCER: Panda Productions Heart-stopping 3D footage and state-of- DISTRIBUTOR: IMAX Corporation the-art CGI will plunge audiences deep CONTACT: Gina Glen, [email protected] into the Jurassic period on an unprecedented scientific adventure with An independent wildlife biologist in rural a rarified peek at the largest animals to New Hampshire becomes the unlikely key ever rock the planet. to solving one of the most pressing issues in conservation—saving the giant THE NEW CENTURY panda. For 25 years, Ben Kilham quietly RELEASE: 2018 raised orphaned black bears and FORMATS: 2D, DCI-compliant Digital, IMAX returned them to the wild in the forests Digital, IMAX Laser, Fulldome Digital of New England. But his life takes on new LENGTH: 42:00 meaning when a group of Chinese

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PREHISTORIC JAWS Breakthrough advancements in RELEASE: 2019 technology are enabling never-before- FORMATS: 2D amd 3D, 15/70, DCI- possible scientific experimentation. These compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX fascinating machines, such as the $13 Laser, Dome-customized 15/70 billion Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, LENGTH: 40:00 Switzerland, provide an unprecedented PRODUCER: N3D LAND Films pathway to answers surrounding the DISTRIBUTOR: To be determined nature of our universe. Thousands of CONTACT: Pascal Vuong, scientists, with a diversity of backgrounds [email protected] and expertise, journey from all over the world to labs like CERN (the host of the In people’s heads, Jaws, as a title, reminds LHC) and Fermilab (new host of ICARUS immediately the deadly marine predators and the highly anticipated DUNE that haunt the seas nowadays. Speaking project)—now with a real hope of of marine predators, 15 million years ago, unlocking the secrets that have long some sharks were very, very large… such eluded us. Dark , antimatter, extra as the famous “Megalodon” who was dimensions, and more, join them as they eating a prehistoric whale at breakfast. push the boundaries of the possible, on Opposite to whales, sharks are very the cusp of turning science fiction into ancient. But at the beginning of their science fact. 400-million-year history, sharks were appetizers for giant fishes like SUPERPOWER DOGS “Dunkleosteus.” As indicated by its name RELEASE: 2018 (working title) Prehistoric Jaws will tell the FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI-compliant long story of the top marine predators Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, Dome- through the ages. Starting nowadays with customized 15/70, Fulldome Digital current whales and sharks, the film will go LENGTH: 45:00 far back in time—500 million years ago— PRODUCER: Cosmic Picture and follow the evolution of sharks during DISTRIBUTOR: To be announced three eras until today. Famous WEBSITE: superpowerdogs.com paleontogists like John A. Long based in CONTACT: Daniel Ferguson, LA or Gilles Cuny accepted to be the [email protected] scientific advisers of the project. The true story of a rookie puppy who SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE discovers her superpowers with the help RELEASE: 2017 of the world’s most extraordinary search FORMATS: 2D and 3D, 15/70, DCI- and rescue dogs. From the Canadian compliant Digital, IMAX Digital, IMAX Rockies to the Italian Riviera to Northern Laser, Dome-customized 15/70, Fulldome Kenya, join these heroic canines and their Digital human partners as they brave earthquakes LENGTH: 40:00 and avalanches, bring criminals to PRODUCER: The Stephen Low Company justice and lift our spirits. Audiences will DISTRIBUTOR: K2 Communications experience how dogs see, hear and smell WEBSITE: secretsoftheuniversefilm.com the world and discover how we are CONTACT: Mark Kresser, harnessing their remarkable superpowers [email protected] to heal, inspire and save lives. We will never look at our best friends the same way again!

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IMMERSIVE AUDIO digital, high-resolution live content Visit these exhibitors at the trade show CHRISTIE Wednesday, October 5, digitally captured, high-resolution digital on Thursday, October 6, 4:00-8:00 pm, Larry Howard 1:30 pm - 3:10 pm time-lapse, and high-frame-rate in the Fairmont Royal York Concert Hall. [email protected] Scotiabank IMAX Theatre presentations. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, sponsored 1-407-496-7512 PRESENTERS: Tim Archer, Masters Digital; Building upon the first “8K” Digital by Technicolor, will be available. Prizes will christiedigital.com be awarded throughout the trade show, Brian Eimer, ImagesInSound; Cory Mandel, Dome Demo in Richmond, VA, in 2014, facebook.com/christiedigital and you must be present to win. Technicolor; Lorne Orleans, IMAX and last year’s “8K” Digital Dome Demo Twitter: @christiedigital Corporation; Denis Tremblay, IMAX in San Jose, Evans & Sutherland will AMZ DESIGN Create a premium giant screen cinema Corporation demonstrate the Digistar digital Ali Zohourian experience for your audience—without This years’ technical session will focus on planetarium/dome cinema system with [email protected] costly service contracts or long-term the advancements in immersive audio for 10 Christie 4K projectors on the dome 1-647-202-3939 revenue sharing commitments—with the giant screen. This session will explain, screen at the Ontario Science Centre amzdesign.com Christie® digital projection solutions. From award-winning digital cinema through practical demonstrations and Shoppers Drug Mart OMNIMAX. The AMZ is one of the world’s most projectors to awe-inspiring 2D and 3D presentations by industry experts, the system will use E&S’ proprietary auto experienced cinema contractors in the laser projection and cutting-edge dome recent trends in immersive audio, the alignment and blending systems to industry. We have the capability for theater technology, Christie offers the key considerations when producing for produce a seamless ultra-high resolution turnkey supply/installation of screens, best in 4K projection. Choose the content a range of 3D immersive sound formats, image with a minimum of 8000 pixels towers, motorized or manual immersive you want to play and mesmerize your and the benefits of expanding beyond across every meridian of the dome. speakers, laser and digital conversions, audience with brilliant, high-contrast conventional speaker configurations. FotoKem is supervising the production acoustic panels, seats and concession visuals and amazing, vibrant colors. Judging by the strong response to the of pristine 8K digital assets, brand new equipment. We have been recommended Complete the experience with Christie membership survey in preparation for prints from 1570 negatives, and 8K by IMAX as the rigging contractor to Vive Audio, an audio solution that this session, this is likely to be a popular source material shot with state-of-the-art clients globally. Offices in Canada, USA immerses audiences in rich, dynamic, session, so turn up early to secure a digital cameras. We will present 1570 film and UAE. detailed cinema sound. good seat. and 8K digital in a split screen, so the BIG & DIGITAL audience can carefully compare the D3D CINEMA TRUE8K™ DIGITAL DOME Tina Ratterman quality of both media side-by-side. Don Kempf DEMONSTRATION [email protected] Additionally, we will present 8K digital [email protected] Friday, October 7, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm 1-702-932-4045 source material mastered in a fully 8K 1-847-475-9140 Ontario Science Centre biganddigital.com digital pipeline, 8K digital time lapse d3dcinema.com OMNIMAX Theatre Skype: biganddigital material, high frame rate (HFR) 8K digital D3D Cinema offers complete digital 3D Presented by GSCA and the GSCA Twitter: @biganddigital content, and much more. Featuring the cinema solutions and services to giant Technical Committee, with equipment A boutique distributor of films for museums, highest-resolution and brightest digital screen and museum/aquarium/science kindly provided by Evans & Sutherland. planetariums, and attractions in 15/70mm, fulldome system ever demonstrated, this center industry clients worldwide, 2K and 4K Digital, IMAX® Digital, and 4K Featuring the world’s first giant screen is a must-see for any dome operator and providing a welcome alternative and and 8K Fulldome. Traditional Giant Screen demo of a True8K™ (8192 x 8192 anyone producing for the dome. unique partnership approach to theater and Fulldome Films, Kids Corner Pre- resolution) digital fulldome system, this design and installation. Comprised of School Movies, and Alternative Content are half-day smorgasbord of dome institutional theater specialists, D3D excels available for museums. We are committed to presentations, presented by the GSCA in bringing first-to-market immersive long-term relationships with producers Technical Committee, will feature cinema technologies to its clients, offering and theaters. Big Screens. Big Impact. detailed and impartial side-by-side 1570 technology-agnostic consultation, Big Box Office. film versus digital comparisons, some of strategic planning, installation, content the very best film capture transferred to production & distribution, operational support, and ongoing service—saving its clients millions of dollars in operating efficiencies. Having recently surpassed its

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50-installation milestone, D3D has produce interactive solutions that are IMAX CORPORATION Stephen Low and Mark Krenzien, K2 has disrupted the status quo with the delivered via the web, apps, and giant Mike Lutz released a number of solid performing industry’s first 4K 3D giant screen screen cinema. Clients include some of the [email protected] large format films including The Ultimate installation, the first 6P laser giant screen world’s foremost educational institutions 1-310-255-5505 Wave Tahiti, Fighter Pilot, Legends of installation, and soon shall complete the and biopharma companies. Foxfire imax.com Flight, and Rescue. In 2015 K2 released first laser-illuminated giant dome cinema founder, Brad Lisle, currently serves as facebook.com/IMAX Journey to Space (a co-production with installation (fall 2016). D3D is headquartered producer and co-Principal Investigator for Twitter: @IMAX Giant Screen Films), and has just released in Evanston, IL, with offices in the greater the (funded the short version of (June Global Soundscapes Project IMAX Corporation was formed 50 years Aircraft Carrier Philadelphia and New York City areas, by the National Science Foundation). This 2016)—with the long version releasing in ago in the world of specialty giant screen Canada, and . project targets middle school students early 2017. K2 also distributes a number of theatres, and its commitment to the and focuses on the science of sound and films for other respected production FIGUERAS SEATING USA INC. industry’s future continues with its largest the emerging field of soundscape ecology. companies within our industry. technology and content investments to Lisa Enriquez, [email protected] Project components include an interactive date. 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RYAN ANDAL “Golden Reel” Awards for giant screen film MICHAEL DAUT winning large format sound designer, and Founder, Head of Product, projects such as Santa vs. the Snowman 3D Creative Director & Marketing re-recording mixer. He’s worked in the Secret Location (O Entertainment), The Human Body (BBC Director, Evans & Sutherland large format industry for over 25 years Virtual Reality: A Good Thing Large Format), and Pirates (SimEx! Iwerks). Marketing Workshop—The winning numerous best sound awards. for Giant Screen, or Should He also shared the GSCA Sound Design Road to Success: Creativity, Most recently a Golden Reel Award for We Be Worried? Award for the location audio on Strategy, and Execution; Journey to Space 3D from the Motion A firm believer that true success can only Alley (Graphic Films). Other notable giant True8K™ Digital Dome Demo Picture Sound Editors. He’s a member of be achieved through failure, Ryan has screen credits would include, Bugs! 3D, Michael has a passion for immersive media the GSCA technical committee, Canadian always found himself in a constant state Michael Jordan to the Max, Ride Around and is an award-winning writer, producer, Academy of Cinema and Television, and of iteration. It is through this iteration and the World, Kingdom of the Tiger, and director for fulldome videos, theatrical Motion Picture Sound Editors. His facility good fortune that he’s managed to garner and Africa the Serengeti. Tim is also productions, music videos, live concert in Toronto was upgraded to the new IMAX a number of accolades for his work. Fueled Co-Producer and Sound Designer for the videos, commercials, documentaries, 12.0 Immersive Audio format in 2015, and by unhealthy amounts of caffeine Ryan upcoming giant screen production, Global corporate videos, and trade show he’s completed several soundtracks in this has won and been nominated for literally Soundscapes: Mission to Record the Earth, presentations. Since joining Evans & new format. Most recently Extreme hundreds of awards from the digital, an interactive theatre show about the Sutherland in 1998, he has helped develop Weather for National Geographic. He’s advertising, and entertainment industries. science of sound and soundscape ecology. a library of shows for the digital fulldome very passionate about creating immersive soundtracks and prides himself on treating He has received recognition from the DIANE CARLSON community. He created the world’s first Canadian Screen Awards, the Webbys, the each project with the uniqueness that the Vice President of Guest digital fulldome film for SIGGRAPH ’99 in FWAs, the Digis, the Geminis, and both the story and format deserves. He’s been Services and Theaters, Los Angeles. He also helped create the International and News and Documentary recognized twice by the GSCA with two Pacific Science Center world’s first digital fulldome transfer of a Emmys. His work has also been featured in Best Sound Design awards for Wild Ocean Giant Screen 101 giant screen film, Africa the Serengeti in several online and print publications such 2007. As a result of this groundbreaking 3D and The Last Reef. Diane Carlson has been as Marketing Magazine, Communication first step, there are now over 50 giant actively involved in many PAUL FRASER Arts, and Strategy. As a partner of Secret screen films converted to fulldome digital. aspects of the field, including advising on Founder/President, Blaze Location he has been integral in growing He also produced the first two 8K Digital film projects and consulting on theater Digital Cinema Works, LLC the company from a handful of people in a Dome Demos for GSCA and is co-producing operations and marketing. Her travels have Giant Screen 101; Virtual modest basement operation to one of the this year’s event with members of the included visiting over 100 IMAX® theaters Reality: A Good Thing for most in demand digital production partners Technical Committee. Michael is a member on four continents. GSCA committee Giant Screen, or Should We in . of the Producer’s Guild of America, a participation includes membership, Be Worried? founding member of the Association of TIM ARCHER marketing, and professional development. Blaze Digital Cinema Works, LLC, is a Fulldome Innovators, a member of the Creative Director / Sound Her contributions to the annual conference consulting and project management firm Telly Awards’ Silver Council, a board Designer, Masters Digital programming include initiating and specializing in business development and member of the Giant Screen Cinema Immersive Audio Technical coordinating the Giant Screen 101 planning for digital cinema, in all the forms Association, and a board member of Session Workshop and Great Marketing Ideas. She it can take—flat screen and dome, IMERSA.org, the Immersive Media is serving her second elected term on the 2D/3D/4D—for museum and commercial As Creative Director of Entertainment, Research, Science and Arts GSCA board. The launch of the Boeing sectors, and all functions—exhibition, Masters Digital, Tim is involved with all organization dedicated to raising the IMAX® theater that she led garnered a production and distribution. One of Blaze aspects of the audio process, acting as visibility of immersive media across a GSTA MAC theater launch award in 1999. Digital’s specialties is guiding museum- Multi-Channel Location Recordist, Sound variety of disciplines throughout the world. Designer, and Re-Recording Mixer. For She was honored in 2012 with an IMAX theater clients, as an owner’s rep, through almost 30 years Tim has specialized in Founders Award and in 2013 with a GSCA BRIAN EIMER business planning for, and ultimately the audio design for IMAX/giant screen films, Big Shoe award. She attended the Senior Sound Designer/ acquisition of, a new digital projection documentary films, features, television, University of California at Berkeley earning President, ImagesInSound system. Blaze also helps develop films and themed attractions. Tim has received a Bachelors of Science degree in zoology Immersive Audio Technical through planning and executive production international recognition for his expertise and a Masters of Public Health. Session services and handles content licensing in the sound design field, including MPSE Brian Eimer is an award- assignments. Content projects include

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developing 360° video and virtual reality theatrical and non-theatrical distribution recently acquired WorldGaming. An mixed the Oscar-nominated IMAX film projects that are companions to GS films. activities, while also playing an important industry veteran with over 30 years’ Cosmic Voyage and has been nominated Paul has held newly created positions and role in K2’s fundraising and film experience, Mr. LaDouceur began his for two Emmy awards, numerous IMAX C-level roles, whose mandates were to development. He has overseen the release career in the exhibition industry in 1984 Film and MPSE Golden Reel Awards, and develop a new business. Between 1986 and of nine giant screen films over the past 12 with Cineplex Odeon in theatre operations. won an IMAX Film Award for Nascar 3D 2000, Paul led giant screen theater and years. During this time, Mark has expanded In 1994, he was promoted to Director of and four MPSE Golden Reel Awards for the film divisions at IMAX Corporation and K2’s theatrical distribution beyond giant Operations, Western Canada. In 1999, Mr. IMAX films Nascar 3D, Deep Sea 3D, Sea Ogden Entertainment. Paul acquired a screen theaters to a myriad of other types LaDouceur joined Galaxy Entertainment as Monsters, and Rocky Mountain Express. strategic marketing acumen from his of theaters, including smaller digital 3D Director of Operations. He was promoted Cory’s resume also includes the IMAX early-career work in brand management at theaters, 3D/4D “attraction theaters,” and in 2004 to the position of Vice President, documentary features Hubble, Born To Be Procter & Gamble. He has a Bachelor of digital fulldome planetariums. In 2004, he Operations for Cineplex Galaxy LP, which Wild, Super Speedway and Across the Sea Commerce degree from Queen’s University also began K2’s pioneering effort to he held until under Cineplex Entertainment of Time, as well as IMAX DMR features such in Canada. See www.blazedigitalcinema.com. broaden the distribution of giant screen he led the development and creation of the as Jason Bourne, The Hobbit, Transformers, films to non-theatrical media, including Event Cinema division and Cineplex Events. Star Trek: Into Darkness, and Harry Potter. CHRIS HURTUBISE broadcast, streaming and VOD platforms Cory has played a key role in the evolution JULIE LAROCHE Senior Director of Marketing to screens of all sizes. Under Mark’s of IMAX sound, helping to develop IMAX and Communications, COSI supervision, K2 has acquired the distribution Director of Business PSE for documentaries and IMAX DMR for Marketing Workshop—The rights to a library of 80+ giant screen films Development, Montreal Hollywood titles. IMAX recently asked Cory Road to Success: Creativity, from more than 25 independent producers. Science Centre to help with the design of their new IMAX Strategy, and Execution; More recently, Mark has grown K2’s library Giant Screen 101 Immersive 12.0 sound format, for which he Alternative Content: What Does It Mean of 4K/UHD content for non-theatrical Julie La Roche entered the has recently completed mixes of A For Me? distribution, which now has over 400 industry in 1995 as Director of the IMAX® Beautiful Planet, Rocky Mountain Express, Chris Hurtubise is an experienced giant hours, including some 40 giant screen 3D Theatre. In 2000, she was an integral Humpback Whales, The Martian, Captain screen theater and marketing professional films. Mark served as the Chairman of the part of the project team that oversaw the America - Civil War and The Jungle Book. working for COSI–The Center of Science Distributors’ Interest Group (DIG) for two huge expansion of the stand-alone NIGEL NEWTON and Industry in Columbus, Ohio. Chris has years, and has been an active member of, commercial theatre into a major education- been with COSI for 17 years and has been and regularly attended conferences for based institution.After 20 years of being in Director – Canada, INDE associated with the giant screen theater for many industry organizations including command of the commercial operations Virtual Reality: A Good 13 years. In her role at COSI, she is the Senior GSCA, ASTC, and Euromax. division, Julie was nominated as Director, Thing for Giant Screen, or Director of Marketing & Communications Business Development a year ago. Julie Should We Be Worried? and is responsible for marketing of the BRAD LADOUCEUR has been pursuing and involving herself in Nigel Newton champions National Geographic Giant Screen Theater Vice President Event adding new responsibilities and challenges, marketplace innovation connecting brands as well as overseeing a four-person marketing Cinema, Cineplex such as leading the strategic development with emerging media and technology. team. In addition to her experience at Alternative Content: What activities, new business initiatives, quality Consulting in augmented and virtual reality COSI, Chris has experience in consumer Does It Mean For Me? control program, special events activities, he is Director-Canada for INDE on their products sales and business-to-business Mr. LaDouceur is Cineplex sponsorships and the Montreal Science large screen BroadcastAR solutions as marketing for professional services. Entertainment’s Vice President of Event Centre Foundation. Her team is recipient installed at the Toronto Zoo and Montréal Cinema. He oversees the development and of two GSCA Achievement Awards. Biodôme. An observer, commentator and MARK KRESSER distribution of live and specialty content in public speaker on immersive content, Nigel CORY MANDEL President, K2 Canada as part of Cineplex Entertainment’s has presented at Digifest, Canadian Music Communications Cineplex Events division. Programs Supervisor–Sound Services, Week, IAB, OMDC and SIRT Centre events. Alternative Content: What distributed include The Met Live in HD, Technicolor Toronto Nigel introduced mobile AR to Canadians Does It Mean For Me? National Theatre Live, Bolshoi Ballet and Immersive Audio Technical in 2012 with Layar while leading digital Mark Kresser has more than Classic Film Series, among others. Most Session product at Postmedia. This led to the 16 years’ experience in the giant screen recently he launched a new eSports Cory is an award-winning groundbreaking Nissan Canada campaign industry. As President of K2 Communications, division focused on in cinema video game re-recording mixer and music scoring that won a Media Innovation Award. In he oversees all sectors of K2’s global tournaments partnering with Cineplex’s mixer with over 25 years of experience. He 2013 he integrated Layar into Glacier

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Media’s BC newspapers, Readers Digest Kentucky Science Center as Director of Public Relations Procedures from the KATE STORM Canada and the Toronto Star. In 2014 Nigel Marketing and PR (1997-2003) where she University of Toronto. Anna is an active Director of Theaters, COSI led business development for Layar in programmed and marketed films for the member of the International Association of Alternative Content: What North America with apps for BMW USA IMAX Theater; and, after working at Giant Business Communicators (IABC) and is a Does It Mean For Me? and Pure Romance. When Blippar acquired Screen Films (2003-2009) as Director of member of the board of IABC/Toronto. Kate Storm is the Director of Layar he was appointed as VP Canada Distribution and Marketing. BIG & Digital, ROBIN SIP Theaters at The Center of working with General Mills, PepsiCo, P&G founded in 2009 and now based in Las Director of Show Production Science and Industry (COSI) in Columbus, and Blue Ant Media. Vegas Nevada, has a library of films Ohio. She oversees programming and including 15/70mm, 8K and 4K Digital, and & Content, Evans & KIM NICKELS operations for the National Geographic Fulldome formats. The content includes Sutherland; CEO Mirage3D CPA Virtual Reality: A Good Giant Screen Theater and COSI’s traditional educational documentaries as Planetarium. In the exploration for Alternative Content: What well as museum-friendly independent films Thing for Giant Screen, or Does It Mean For Me? Should We Be Worried? alternative content, Ms. Storm has and pre-school movies. Ratterman is a developed programs and partnerships with Kim is an accounting and Robin is founder and director of member of the Giant Screen Cinema actors, artists, astronomers, filmmakers, finance professional with Mirage3D and an award-winning pioneer Association (GSCA) and has won religious leaders, and scientists. Ms. Storm 25+ years of experience. Since 2014, she of special venue 3D cinema. Founded in recognition for her work. She is a native of holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree in has been doing accounting, finance and 1999, Mirage3D, based in the Hague, Louisville, Kentucky, and earned a Bachelor Media Studies from the Columbus College tax work for businesses in several industries, Netherlands, is a leading production firm in of Arts in Communications from the of Art and Design. She has presented at including production accounting for Sean the field of digital dome media production University of Louisville. the annual conferences for the Association Casey and National Geographic’s current (aka “fulldome”). He originally trained as a of Science and Technology Centers, the project Extreme Weather. From 2008 ANNA RELYEA computer engineer, then became a 3D Visitor Studies Association, and the Ohio through 2014, Kim was the VP of Finance Director of Strategic Communications, modeler and later a writer/director. Robin Museums Association. and Operations for the Putnam Museum in Ontario Science Centre entered the fulldome field in 1988, gaining Davenport, Iowa. She was a decision- Marketing Workshop—The Road to experience in the Omniversum Space PHIL STREATHER making member of the museum’s digital Success: Creativity, Strategy, and Theatre in the Hague, at Evans & CEO, Principal Large Format theater conversion task force and was Execution Sutherland and the London planetarium. Giant Screen 101 responsible for programming of the giant Anna Relyea was a business journalist He’s made 20 fulldome shows, including a Phil founded and is CEO screen theater, including content selection, before starting her diverse career in public number of popular favorites and financial of Principal Large Format, contracting, ticket pricing and scheduling. relations and corporate communications successes, including Two Small Pieces of a production company Programming included traditional giant more than 20 years ago. She contributed Glass, Dawn of the Space Age, Origins of dedicated to developing and producing screen documentaries, current and to successful PR campaigns in the travel Life, Natural Selection and Dinosaurs@ 3D Giant Screen (IMAX) features, 3D repertory Hollywood content, cable TV/ and aerospace sectors before moving on Dusk. The Mirage3D’s productions play in Theatrical Documentary features, and sporting events, concerts, local filmmaker to corporate communications in the over 700 fulldome theaters and science 3DTV. Phil was the producer of award- events, kids’ programming, and corporate financial services field. Anna progressed to centers around the world. Dawn of the winning Bugs! 3D, was co-producer and presentations. Kim is a member of GSCA’s Heinz Canada where she spent seven years became the world’s first 3D Space Age Stereo Supervisor on Meerkats 3D and was Event Planning and Industry Development working on many aspects of corporate fulldome film and is the most licensed the Stereo Supervisor on Tiny Giants 3D. Committees, and is Co-Chair of the image building, marketing communications, fulldome film in the industry. Recently Other 3D credits include The London Eye Alternative Content Special Interest Group. media and government relations, issues Robin accepted the position of Director 4D Experience, Carmen in 3D, and Madam management and crisis communications. of Show Production & Content at Evans TINA RATTERMAN Butterfly 3D. Phil also devised and ran Now Director, Strategic Communications, & Sutherland. His focus is on improving Advanced 3D: The National Stereoscopic Founder, BIG & Digital at the Ontario Science Centre Anna is live action capture for the dome by Alternative Content: What Training Programme in the UK in 2010/2011, leading a strategic communications designing new camera rigs which are funded by Skillset and Sky 3D. Does It Mean For Me? program to advance the centre’s image being used for several commissioned Tina Ratterman started BIG and profile in the marketplace. She earned films at this moment. & Digital after working at the her B.A. and M.A. as well as a Certificate in

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CINDY TODD listed as an inventor on IMAX patents. Chief Marketing and Prior to joining IMAX, Tremblay began his Branding Officer, career in the music industry where he Tennessee Aquarium worked at Capitol Records Canada, then Marketing Workshop—The a division of EMI Music and Sony Music Road to Success: Canada. Denis is a member of the AES, Creativity, Strategy, and Execution SMPTE, IEEE, and ACCT. He is a former Cindy Todd is the Chief Marketing and section chairman of the AES Toronto Branding Officer for the Tennessee section. Aquarium, IMAX 3D Theater and River PAUL WILD Gorge Explorer. She has been a member Theatre Director, IMAX of the senior staff leadership team Victoria Inside the Royal responsible for overall operations for 23 BC Museum years and oversees an in-house agency Alternative Content: What SAVE THE DATES responsible for branding, public relations, Does It Mean For Me? advertising, social media, promotions, October 2016 marks the group sales, facility rental, concessions, SEPTEMBER 26 – 28, 2017 13th anniversary for Paul in the giant sponsorship and market research. During screen industry. During this time and with her 30-year marketing career she has credit towards a commitment to film received a number of awards for marketing and a great team of staff and advertising, marketing and special events. management, IMAX Victoria has DENIS TREMBLAY continually been a top performer in the Senior Research Scientist, industry. In addition, Paul has Research and Development, implemented and maintained the most IMAX Corporation successful annual pass program in the Immersive Audio Technical IMAX world, with around 19,000 to Session 20,000 members annually. In 2008 his Denis Tremblay, Senior Research projection booth team was awarded the Scientist, R&D, joined IMAX Corporation Best Booth Award courtesy of IMAX in 2007 as part of theteam developing Corporation. While essentially operating IMAX’s digital projection system. Since as an independent commercial theater, joining IMAX, Denis has played a pivotal Paul has also had the benefit and role in several key projects for the experience of operating within the Company, including leading the technical environment of a mission-based team on the development of IMAX’s first institution—the Royal BC Museum. His ultra-premium in-home offering, the IMAX 20+ years of professional hotel Private Theatre. Denis managed the management experience within the electrical engineering team supporting tourism and hospitality field complements the development of IMAX’s next- his approach to the giant screen industry. GSCA 2017 International Conference generation laser projection system and Over the years he has contributed to the & Trade Show in IMAX nXos 2 immersive audio system. GSCA through a long-standing involvement on the Professional Denis recently assumed a new role as a Hosted by the Navy Pier IMAX Theatre Senior Research Scientist within the IMAX Development Committee and is a GSCA research and Development team. Denis is board member. and the Museum of Science and Industry

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