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FIP = Film in Production
FID = Film in Development
WT = Working Title
FT = Final Title
Films are listed alphabetically. Film descriptions are provided by production companies.
AIR RACERS 3D: FORCES OF FLIGHT (FIP, WT)
Production Company: Pretend Entertainment, Stereoscope Productions
Distributor: 3D Entertainment Distribution
Contact: Francois Mantello
Length: 40 minutes
Release Date: 2011
Format: 2D and 3D
3D Entertainment Distribution takes you into the air for an unprecedented look at the highly competitive world of air racing, the fastest motorsport on Earth, at the legendary Reno National Championship Air Races. Join first-time competitor Steven Hinton, Jr., the 22-year-old son of a two-time Reno champion, as he takes the reins and flies “Strega,” a lightning-fast modified P-51 Mustang, across the finish line to become the youngest champion ever of the ultimate high desert race: the Unlimited Class Gold. Follow his training and explore the history of flight through the nearly century-old high-adrenaline racing sport founded by WWI-era barnstormers.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND (FIP, FT)
Production Company: Walt Disney Studios, IMAX Corporation
Contact Name: Bernie Gaw
Release Date: March 2010
Format: 3D
Visionary filmmaker Tim Burton will put his distinctive touch on the combination live-action and performance capture version of Lewis Carroll's classic tale Alice in Wonderland. The all-star cast includes Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Alan Rickman, and Mia Wasikowska as Alice.
ANIMAL ORPHANS (FID, WT)
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, IMAX Corporation
Distributor: IMAX Corporation
Contact Name: Bernie Gaw
Release Date: 2011
Format: 3D
Travel around the globe to follow orphaned orangutans, elephants, and giant otters on a miraculous journey from rescue and rehabilitation to their triumphant release in this inspiring new IMAX 3D film.
ARABIA 3D (FIP, WT)
Production Company and Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact: Bob Harman
Release Dates: February 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Travel to the exotic and fascinating land of Arabia. Explore the ancient tombs of a lost city, dive through the reefs of the Red Sea, and experience the Hajj--the largest gathering of people on Earth. Discover an extraordinary culture and experience modern-day Arabia in the midst of monumental change.
ARABIAN HORSES 3D: DAUGHTERS OF THE WIND (FID, WT)
Producer: Cosmic Picture
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Taran Davies
Release Date: 2012
Format: 2D and 3D
Length: 40 minutes
The oldest of all equine purebreds, the Arabian is revered as the most beautiful and enduring of horses. From early appearances in Egyptian tomb paintings to stud farms in the Arabian Gulf to the world's most challenging endurance race in California, follow the story of a living legend.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 YEARS (FIP, FT)
Production Company and Distributor: nWave Pictures
Contact: Goedele Gillis
Release Dates: last quarter 2010/early 2011
Format: 3D
Around The World in Fifty Years is the story of a sea turtle from hatchling to maturity. Only 1 in 1000 turtles makes it to adulthood. But for Sammy, our main character, the odds seem even worse. About half the size of the other hatchlings, he can barely make it out of his nest alone. It takes a sea turtle 30 to 50 years to reach maturity at which point they return to the beach where they were born to reproduce. Full of humor, this epic journey starts in 1959 and ends today. Sammy spends the first 10 years of his life drifting on the ocean currents with his friend Ray. Hurt in a fishing incident, he is picked up by a little boy and spends several months as the mascot of a hippie commune on some beach in California. He then decides to travel around the world looking for a girlfriend from his childhood years. Filled with twist and turns, action and drama, the story also has a strong underlining message about our planet and the need to protect our environment.
BANG! (FID, WT)
Production Company: Coptor Productions Inc.
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Allanah Scott
Release Date: September 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Length: 1 minute 30 seconds
BANG! is a custom pre-show introducing the audience to your giant screen. A welcome greeting from your staff leads into an immersive CG fireworks display, segueing into your theater’s branding. BANG! is available for 2D/3D LF/IMAX and Domes. Basic runtime 60 seconds; add 30 seconds of aerial photography for
the deluxe.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (FID, WT)
Production Company: Principal Large Format, SK Films
Contact: Phil Streather, Jonathan Barker
Release Date: TBD
Format: 2D and 3D
The great white, possessing extraordinary senses and lethal power, is the ocean's ultimate predator. The whale shark, the world's largest fish, feeds only on tiny life forms but grows to the size of a whale. Beauty and the Beast tells the story of these amazing animals and explores the intricate web of life that connects them.
BEYOND LIMITS 3D (FID, WT)
Production Company: Camera Lucida Productions
Distributor: Camera Lucia Productions
Contact: Maritsa Karypidis
Release Date: May 2010
Format: 3D
Length: 40 minutes and 80 minutes
Herbert Nitsch first discovered the fascinating world of free-diving when he turned 30. The following nine years, he progressed to depths never achieved before, and has now set himself to become the first man to break the 1000-ft. mark. A dream come true filmed in the Bahamas, Greece and Japan.
BEYOND THE GREAT WALL (FID, WT)
Production Company: SK Films
Contact: Jonathan Barker
Release Date: TBD
Format: 2D
China is a land of invention. From rockets to waterworks to steel processing and countless other technologies, China is reaching out now beyond the Great Wall to reclaim its own legacy of invention to fuel its remarkable expansion. Witness contemporary China from the perspective of its rich history of invention.
BLUE MAN GROUP: MIND BLAST (FIP, WT)
Production Company: Blue Spot Studios
Distributor: National Geographic Entertainment
Contact: Janice Doskey
Release Date: January 2011
Format: 2D and 3D
Length: 40 minutes
In a mind-boggling encounter with Blue Man Group, 22-year-old Eugene's world is turned upside down as the Blue Men enter his brain. Their mission: to bring his creative inner world outward. This propulsive IMAX experience puts audiences deep within a living mind, humorously exploring core neurological structures and phenomena that create perception, memory, emotion, and thought.
CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD (FIP, WT)
Production Company: Tenare Pictures
Contact: Morgan Gabereau
Release Date: Fall 2011
Champions of the World is an adrenaline-charged exploration of what it takes to achieve peak athletic performance. Employing highly specialized cinematographic techniques and advanced scientific animations, we will journey through the physiological to the psychological, from the depths of personal solitude to the ecstatic arenas of team victory.
CHESAPEAKE BAY PROJECT (FID, WT)
Production Company: EarthEcho International, Trinity Group
Contact Name: John O'Connell
Release Date: 2012
Format: 2D and 3D
An educational and environmentally-based project focusing on the challenges facing the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Philippe Cousteau and his company, EarthEcho International, will be the executive producer. In addition to the 3D giant screen film, the project will include a documentary series for commercial distribution through television broadcast and DVD sales, an online expedition, and a set of curriculum materials for middle and high school students. The Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts will play a lead role in developing the project's educational materials.
COOL PLANET (FID, WT)
Production Company: The Stephen Low Company
Distributor: K2 Communications
Contact: Mark Kresser
Release Date: Fall 2011
Format: 2D and 3D
The impact of climate change is upon us, and its potential consequences are daunting. It's time for a film that focuses upon solutions. Cool Planet will arm governments, industry leaders, and individuals with the information and inspiration they need to make wiser choices to create a productive, enjoyable, yet sustainable civilization.
DAKAR: THE MOVIE (FID, WT)
Producer: Trains Don’t Stop Productions
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Katherine Laupot
Release Date: TBD
Format: 2D and 3D
The Dakar is the Mount Everest of motorsports. A 9000-kilometer race over some of the most spectacular terrains on Earth. Filming in January 2010, drivers and their navigators will cross Argentinian deserts and extreme mountain landscapes of Chile. The film will combine the gripping thrills of hurtling through a perilous unknown, with stunning landscapes, human dramas, the top-secret world of automotive design, and an epic journey.
DOLPHINS 3D (FID, WT)
Production Company: Liquid Pictures
Distributor: Giant Screen Films
Contact Name: Melissa Roller
Release Date: TBD
Format: 2D and 3D
Dive into a global adventure and the unseen realm of the dolphin. Audiences will witness ancient mysteries unravel as they travel into prehistoric time, explore advanced marine mammal research, cheer a dramatic dolphin rescue, and experience the most astonishing dolphin behaviors ever captured in 3D.
DRAGONS: REAL MYTHS AND UNREAL CREATURES (FIP, WT)
Producer: Productions Thalie
Distributor: Distribution Thalie
Contact: Yves Fortin
Release Date: September 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Length: 40 minutes
Dragons! They are timeless and universal. Follow two peculiar characters--an unusual dream therapist and his mysterious patient--as they dig up and explore many spectacularly reenacted classical myths with different dragon types and incarnations in the search for the root of a recurring nightmare. Mythology, history, emotion, and entertainment.
EIRE: A TRAVELER'S REFLECTION OF THE EMERALD ISLE (FID, WT)
Production Company: Wanted Media and 3D Camera Company
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Mark Magro
Release Date: March 2011
Format: 2D and 3D
These are the journals of a traveler. Ireland is the destination. A magnificent landscape shaped by ecological and human condition. Lost in images, stories and sounds, this is a personal reflection of the Irish charm.
FLATLAND: SEARCH FOR THE 3RD DIMENSION (FIP, WT)
Production Company: Objects in Motion Pictures
Distributor: RPG Productions
Contact: Rick Gordon
Release Date: Summer 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Length: 36 minutes
This dramatic CGI adaptation introduces a whole new generation of viewers to Edwin Abbott’s beloved mathematical adventure novel, Flatland, the story of a world of only two dimensions inhabited by geometric shapes who discover the existence of the 3rd dimension. Explains difficult math concepts in an engaging and creative way. In 2D and 3D. Voices of Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, and Michael York.
FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES (FID, WT)
Production Company: Principal Large Format and SK Films, Inc.
Contact Name: Phil Streather
Release Date: Fall 2011
Format: 2D and 3D
Flight of the Butterflies is the story of one of the most amazing animal migrations on earth--that of the monarch butterfly. This epic natural history saga is interwoven with the scientific detective story of the discovery of the monarch’s over-wintering sites in the remote mountains of Central Mexico.
FLYING HIGH (Previously titled Beyond the Summit: Learning to Fly) (FIP, WT)
Production Company: Miro Productores
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Gustavo Montalvo
Release Date: October 2010
Format: 2D
Length: 38 minutes
In this film you will be able to realize the great dream of humans being able to fly, like the birds, without motors. You will understand how the clouds help us to fly for up to 7 hours without the aid of an engine and learn about the meteorology and attitude necessary to obtain what at one time was considered impossible.
FREEFALL (FID, FT)
Production Company: Foxfire Interactive Corp.
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Brad Lisle
Release Date: TBD
Format: 2D
Length: 40 minutes
Freefall explores the wonders and mysteries of gravity at its extremes--from the microgravity we call weightlessness to the colossally powerful gravity of a Black Hole. We’re led on this extraordinary journey by an astronaut and a dozen young people selected for an annual education program called World Space Week.
FURUSATO WORLD HERITAGE BEHELD FROM UNIVERSE (FIP, WT)
ProductionCompany: TBS Vision/National Museum Of Emerging Science And Innovation
Distributor: Sarai, Inc.
Contact: Aya Suzuki
Release Date: April 2010
Format: 3D
Length: 35 minutes
Many invaluable natural and cultural sites are registered as World Heritage sites due to environmental changes and human influences. In 2008, UNESCO and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) made a treaty to document World Heritage with a satellite, Daichi (ALOS-Advanced Land Observing Satellite). In this film, a series of remarkable 3D images of World Heritage sites captured from space will be featured.
GAME DAY! COLLEGE FOOTBALL TO THE MAX (FIP, FT)
Production Company: GRAiNEY Pictures
Contact: Megan Raney Aarons
Format: 3D
Release Date: Fall 2011
Football is the connective tissue that binds America together, from fans to players, communities and rivals, from one generation to the next, in gritty turf battles for annual bragging rights. College football is a celebration of our national secular religion. We will use the journey of the football itself, as the connective visual tissue to tell the story of the incredible American college football tradition in Game Day! College Football to the Max.
GRAVITY 3D (FID, FT)
Production Company: Monkey Pack Films
Contact: Allyson Luchak
Release Date: TBD
Format: 3D
Gravity 3D is a visceral, character-driven, celebration of Man's unending contest with a force of nature: gravity. The audience will share a completely enveloping experience, feel the power of gravity, and realize that some of the deepest, most beautiful and exciting expressions of our humanity occur as we contend with its power.
HEART OF AFRICA 3D (FID, WT)
Production Company: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact: Bob Harman
Release Date: TBD
Format: 2D and 3D
Heart of Africa 3D is being produced in association with GoodWorks International with the support of Ambassador Andrew Young. The film will showcase the striking stories coming from the significant cultural and environmental changes on the continent. Featuring the beautiful, seductive, and glorious culture, music and people of Africa.
HIDDEN UNIVERSE 3D (FID, WT)
Production Company: National Geographic and Blacklight Films
Contact: Antonietta Monteleone
Release Date: TBD
Format: 2D and 3D
Hidden Universe 3D brings to the giant screen a new vision of the world as it peers into mysterious and invisible realms. It’s a journey through time and space that reveals for the first time elements of our universe that are too slow, too fast, too small, or too vast for the naked eye to perceive.
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (FIP, FT)
Production Company: DreamWorks Animation, IMAX Corporation
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Contact: Bernie Gaw
Release Date: March 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Meet Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, heir of the Viking chiefdom, but a boy with one very big problem: a hero he is not. How to Train Your Dragon is the riotous story of Hiccup's quest to hunt down the fiercest dragon, bring it into submission, and--hopefully--pass his initiation. Instead, he ends up with the smallest, most ornery dragon--it's even toothless!
HUBBLE 3D (FID, WT)
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, IMAX Corporation
Distributor: IMAX Corporation
Contact: Bernie Gaw
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Vividly captured in IMAX 3D, Hubble 3D recounts the amazing journey of the most important scientific instrument since Galileo’s original telescope and the greatest success in space since the Moon Landing--the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble 3D is the seventh awe-inspiring film from the award-winning IMAX Space Team.
HUMPBACK WHALES 3D (FID, WT)
Production Company: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact Name: Bob Harman
Release Date: Spring 2013
Format: 2D and 3D
Humpback Whales 3D will be an immersive, intimate portrait of these enigmatic animals. Incredibly curious, humpbacks have established a bond with man, their remarkable stewards and greatest threat. This highly tested topic is moving quickly from development to production in beautiful 15/70 after years of research and fundraising.
THE ICE AGE (FID, WT)
Production Company: Giant Screen Films
Contact Name: Don Kempf
Release Date: 2011
Format: 2D and 3D
Journey 14,000 years back in time, to an icy era when humans walked with giant beasts. Discover the world of woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and giant cave bears. Witness a frigid, ancient Earth that marked the end of the great ice titans and the dawn of man’s journey toward civilization.
ICELAND (FID, WT)
Production Company: Day's End Pictures, Inc.
Contact Name: Jini Durr
Release Date: TBD
Format: 2D and 3D
Iceland, land of fire and ice, has geography like no other place on earth. Join us on an adventure as we explore the extreme and majestic landscapes of this isolated island in search of the "hidden people, a legend that has shaped the Icelandic culture since the time of the Vikings.
IMAX 1900 (FID, WT)
Producer: BioMax Films
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Adrian Wood
Release Date: January 2011
Format: 2D
Length: 40 minutes
Seventy years before IMAX astonished audiences, W K-L Dickson amazed the world with images captured on his 68mm Biograph motion-picture camera. Granted unique access to digitally scan original 68mm nitrate elements, BioMax Films will present these films again, in their true scale, for the first time in over a century.
INCEPTION: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (FIP, WT)
Producer: Warner Bros. Pictures, IMAX Corporation
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Contact Name: Bernie Gaw
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Format: 2D
Length: TBD
A contemporary sci-fi action film set within the architecture of the mind. Directed by Chris Nolan (The Dark Knight) and starring Deonardo DiCaprio (Titanic, Blood Diamond), Ellen Page (Juno), Ken Wantanabe (The Last Samurai), Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose), Joseph Gordon Levitt ((500) Days of Summer), and Michael Caine (The Cider House Rules).
JERUSALEM (FID, WT)
Producer: Cosmic Picture
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Daniel Ferguson
Release Date: 2013
Format: 3D and 3D
Length: 40 minutes
Experience the sacred sites and unique customs of the holiest city on earth. Explore the extraordinary stories and events that shaped Western Civilization, and continue to inspire billions of Jews, Christians, and Muslims worldwide.
JOURNEY TO A BLACK HOLE 3D (FID, FT)
Production Company: OmniCosm Studios
Contact: Donna Tracy
Release Date: March 2012
Format: 2D and 3D
Venture into a super massive black hole to see what may lurk at the heart of existence. Prepare to travel the turbulent pathways that lead to the frontiers of space-time and witness cosmic explosions--supernovae, hypernovae, gamma ray bursts--that give birth to white dwarfs, neutron stars, and ultimately black holes.
THE LAST REEF (FIP, WT)
Producer: Yes/No Productions and Liquid Pictures
Distributor: Giant Screen Films
Contact: Don Kempf
Release Date: September 2010
Format: 3D
Length: 40 minutes
Exotic coral reefs, vibrant sea walls in the sub-arctic pulsating with anemones and crustaceans: these biodiversity hot spots are as vital to our lives as the rainforests. All are under threat as global CO2 emissions continue to acidify the ocean. Groundbreaking macro 3D cinematography explores these cities beneath the sea.
LEGENDS OF FLIGHT 3D (FIP, FT)
Production Company: K2 Communications (Executive Producer), The Stephen Low Company (Producer)
Distributor: K2 Communications
Contact: Mark Kresser
Release Date: May 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Fly in the cockpit of some of aviation history’s most amazing aircraft. See how the design challenges, financial risks, and many lessons learned from a century of aviation trial and error have brought us to the dawn of a new era of revolutionary aircraft: Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus 380.
LEONARD DA VINCI 3D (FID, FT)
Producer: Camera Lucida Productions
Distributor: Camera Lucida Productions
Contact: Capucine Morlet
Release Date: 2011
Format: 2D and 3D
Length: 40 minutes
An extraordinary immersion in the incredible world of the most creative spirit in the human history: engineer, scientist and artist. A discovery on the giant screen, in 3D, of the sketches of his inventions up to his paintingsm considered for five centuries as the masterpieces of the art history.
MAGIC JOURNEY TO AFRICA (FORMERLY THE MAGIC TALE) (FIP, WT)
Production Company: Orbita Max
Contact: Anna Viladot
Release Date: April 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Jana starts a fantastic journey to Africa searching for a friend. She meets other children, animals, and plants and finds out that the meaning of life resides in beauty and true love for others. A spiritual journey for adults and a magical one for kids.
MICROWORLDS (FIP, FT)
Production Company: PassmoreLab
Distributor: TBD
Contact: steve@passmorelab.com
Length: 27 minutes
Release Date: March 2010
Format: Digital 3D
MicroWorlds is a thirty-minute live-action science film that takes an extraordinary look at the unseen worlds of nature beneath our feet. Examining the seemingly invisible domains of four insects --earthworms, ladybugs, butterflies and garden snails--MicroWorlds tells the amazing stories of the daily rituals and routines of these essential creatures and the vital role they play on our planet.
MYSTERIES OF CHINA (FID, WT)
Production Company: National Geographic
Contact: Antonietta Monteleone
Release Date: TBD
Format: 2D and 3D
In the tradition of Mysteries of Egypt, this film brings to life the sweeping history and fairytale-like settings of China, as seen through the cameras of a father and daughter on a quest to capture the soul of this timeless country. On the way, they--and we--will discover China’s treasures and an ancient culture as colorful as a silk tapestry.
MYSTERIES OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS (FID, WT)
Producer: Coptor Productions Inc.
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Allanah Scott
Release Date: November 2011
Format: 2D
Length: 44 minutes
Mysteries of the Northern Lights is an immersive experience that brings the beauty of one of the seven Natural Wonders of the World to the giant screen. Share new discoveries about this fantastic phenomenon, the dangers and opportunities it represents. Runtime 44 minutes, for Dome and LF screens. Delivery 2011.
NATIVE AMERICA 3D (FID, WT)
Production Company: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact Name: Bob Harman
Release Date: TBD
Format: 2D and 3D
Native America 3D will capture the resiliency of Native American communities, tribal sovereignty, and the bright future of the tribes. From the heartfelt teachings of respect for all living things, to rich cultural traditions, history and heroes, we will share this story of visual poetry of color, art and nature.
NEUROPOLIS (FIP, WT)
Production Company: National Film Board of Canada
Distributor: N/A
Contact: Maral Mohammadian
Release Date: 2011
Format: 3D
Length: 40 minutes
A film about the brain. In 3D. Cool! Neuropolis will feature the latest brain imaging technologies and cutting-edge discoveries in neuroscience to tell the story of music, memory, vision, and mind. New neurons are born every second. Your brain is a more exciting place than you think.
ORCA: KILLER WHALES (FID, WT)
Production Company: Graphic Films
Contact: Paul Novros
Release Date: TBD
Format: 2D
Killer Whales are the top predator in the sea, feared even by Great White sharks. Yet they are also remarkably gentle, loyal, and the most intelligent of all non-human species. Travel with us around the globe as he explores and reveals the amazing world of killer whales.
OUTSIDE IN (FID, FT)
Production Company: Outside In Films and SV2 Studios
Contact Name: Stephen van Vuuren
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Format: 2D
Outside In is a giant screen visual symphony that aims to artistically bridge science and spirituality as it journeys from the big bang to the Cassini-Huygens Mission at Saturn. Created entirely from still photographs animated to create full motion imagery, the films melds visual poetry, narrative, and documentary forms.
PANGAEA (FIP, WT)
Production Company: Tandem Motion Picture Studios
Contact: Rick Gordon
Release Date: TBA
Format: 2D and 3D
Pangaea 3D is a whimsical, stop-motion animated adventure about the separation of the original Super-Continent, seen through the eyes of an amusing group of primitive primates who roam the lands in tiny villages fastened to dinosaurs. Rooted in geological fact and bursting with exciting, 3D visual wonders, it’s an entertaining, educational look at the tectonic forces that forged our planet.
POLAND: A TRAVELER'S REFLECTION ON THE HEART OF EUROPE (FID, WT)
Producer: Wanted Media
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Mark Magro
Release Date: 2011
Format: 2D
Length: 40 minutes
Poland is an ancient landscape full of stories and culture. Since the fall of Communism it has opened up its doors to the world. This is a traveler's perspective of the heart of Europe.
POLAR QUEST (FIP, WT)
Producer and Distributor: Science North
Contact: Brenda Tremblay
Release Date: June 2011
Format: 2D
Length: 40 minutes
Polar Quest will celebrate the wonder and beauty of our polar extremes as they are today while reminding audiences what is at stake as global warming continues to affect the planet. It will feature the most iconic species inhabiting the poles, while accompanying scientific expeditions to understand the changes taking place at both ends of the Earth.
QUANTUM QUEST: A CASSINI SPACE ODYSSEY (FIP, FT)
Producer and Distributor: Digimax Inc. and Jupiter 9 Productions
Contact Name: Rayna Napali, Richard James, Maggie Begley
Release Date: June 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Length: 45 minutes
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey is a CGI, 3D, science fiction, action-adventure film which interweaves animated sequences with actual space imagery captured from seven ongoing NASA/ESA missions. Its family-friendly tale focuses on a photon named Dave and his heroic efforts to save his people, who are caught in a galactic battle between the forces of good and evil. The film takes a unique and entertaining approach to science education by creating characters which embody scientific concepts and discoveries, making the movie fun as well as informative. Voice cast includes Chris Pine, Samuel L. Jackson, Hayden Christensen, Amanda Peet, Robert Picardo, Jason Alexander, Tom Kenny, Sandra Oh, Brent Spiner, James Earl Jones, William Shatner, Mark Hamill, Doug Jones, Abigail Breslin, Spencer Breslin, Gary Graham and, in his first feature film role, astronaut Neil Armstrong.
THE REAL STAR TREK (FID, WT)
Producer: Objects in Motion Pictures
Distributor: TBD
Contact: Ken Randall
Release Date: TBD
Format: 2D and 3D
Length: 40 minutes
Using photographic imagery from our space missions combined with dynamic interviews with space exploration visionaries, The Real Star Trek explores what Earth’s manned exploration of our solar system and beyond could be. The film showcases the latest physics, math, engineering, and biochemistry on a thrilling journey into the future.
RED CRABS 3D: AUSTRALIA'S CHRISTMAS ISLAND (FIP, FT)
Production Company: Mark Simpfendorfer Productions
Distributor: Big and Digital, Offset Films
Contact Name: Tina Ratterman
Release Date: Fall 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Deep in the Indian Ocean is the tropical oasis of Christmas Island. The monsoon clouds signal the beginning of the wet season, and millions of Red Crabs march off to the ocean to breed. However the Red Crab numbers have dropped from hundreds of millions to around forty million in just over a hundred years of settlement. Join the Red Crabs on their epic journey not just to breed but for the survival of their species.
RESCUE (FIP, WT)
Production Company: The Stephen Low Company
Distributor: K2 Communications
Contact: Mark Kresser, Thais Johnson
Release Date: Fall 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Length: 45 minutes
Rescue will immerse audiences in an exciting human drama as we witness civilian rescues and humanitarian aid being delivered with precision and sacrifice. An integral element of the film is the science behind natural disasters and the skills and technology required to predict, and effectively respond to them.
RETURN TO EVEREST 3D (FIP, WT)
Production Company: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact: Bob Harman
Release Date: February 2012
Format: 2D and 3D
One critically ill hospital patient lives. Another dies. Why? On Everest, courageous doctors undertake the largest high-altitude medical study ever conducted to understand how we adapt to oxygen deprivation. They’re joined by Araceli and Jamling, the heart and soul of Everest, at the scene of their successful 1996 climb.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN EXPRESS (FIP, WT)
Production Company: The Stephen Low Company, Age of Steam Films Inc.
Distributor: The Stephen Low Company
Contact: Pietro Serapiglia
Release Date: mid-2011
Format: 2D
A wild and romantic steam train ride, Rocky Mountain Express captures the dramatic flavor of the steam age and the struggle to build a railroad through some of the most rugged and breathtaking landscapes on earth.
RUNNING WITH BULLS (FIP, WT)
Production Company: San Fermin Films
Distributor: Big & Digital
Contact: Tina Ratterman
Release Date: February 2011
Format: 2D and 3D
Length: 40 minutes
Running with Bulls takes you to the streets of Pamplona to the world famous spectacular Fiesta. Run with thousands, feel the emotions, live the thrills and spills, and come face to face with real bulls. Celebrate life in this family-friendly Fiesta of culture, history, energy, and spirit of Spain.
SEA REX: JOURNEY TO A PREHISTORIC WORLD (FIP, FT)
Production Company: N3D LAND Productions
Distributor: 3D Entertainment
Contact: Francois Mantello
Release Date: May 2010
Format: 3D
3D Entertainment Distribution is thrilled to bring you a new underwater experience from the dinosaur age. Accompanied by an imaginative young woman and a mysterious scientist from the past, embark on a wondrous adventure that will take you 200 million years back in time to discover a fascinating and little-known world populated by amazing creatures: the powerful Liopleurodon, the long-necked Elasmosaurus, the ferocious Mosasaur and the largest marine reptile ever known, the 75-foot Shonisaurus. Meet contemporary experts from around the world and learn about some of the great pioneers of paleontology. Dive in with the T-Rex of the seas!
SEA TURTLES 3D (FID, WT)
Production Company: 3D Entertainment, McKinney Underwater Productions, Inc.
Distributor: 3D Entertainment Ltd.
Contact Name: Francois Mantello
Release Date: Fall 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Sea Turtles 3D will take audiences across tropical oceans to discover one of Earth's most beloved and ancient creatures. From hatching through maturity, follow the life cycle of these endangered air-breathing marine reptiles and experience the aquatic world through their eyes in vibrant 3D.
SHREK FOREVER AFTER (FIP, FT)
Production Company: DreamWorks Animation, IMAX Corporation
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Contact: Bernie Gaw
Release Date: May 21, 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
The fourth film in the popular Shrek series, based on the William Steig picture book.
SILENT SURF (FID, WT)
Production Company: Summerhays Films
Contact: Soames Summerhays
Release Date: TBD
Format: 2D and 3D
American’s ocean heritage is the world's largest and most biologically diverse. Silent Surf guides its audiences through the marine ecosystems that support them in a personal exploration of dynamic connections to the ocean and its charismatic creatures. This poignant story speaks to the education recommendations of two recent policy studies.
TO THE ARCTIC 3D (FIP, WT)
Production Company: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Contact Name: Bob Harman
Release Date: February 2011
Format: 2D and 3D
Fall in love with a disappearing world. Dive into ice-cold water. Glide beneath luminous icebergs, past unlikely coral gardens. Swim alongside a polar bear and her cubs, cheek by jowl. Cavort with prehistoric sharks and caribou. Witness the shocking, unforgettable beauty of a world in transition. Learn to hope.
TORNADO ALLEY (FIP, WT)
Production Company: Graphic Films
Distributor: Giant Screen Films
Contact Name: Don Kempf
Release Date: early 2011
Format: 2D and 3D
June 24, 6:00 p.m.—somewhere in Kansas. So begins the epic, life-affirming story of Sean Casey and his TIV (tornado intercept vehicle) as he and a cast of hundreds of scientists and fellow researchers begin their quest to uncover the mysteries of tornadic formation. Sean’s job: to gather data from INSIDE the tornado.
TREASURES OF ISRAEL (FID, WT)
Production Company: 6 Point Films, High Sierra Films
Distributor: K2 Communications
Contact: Mark Kresser
Release Date: Spring 2012
Format: 2D and 3D
Length: 45 minutes
Treasures of Israel explores the past and present cultures and diverse natural wonders that span this hallowed crossroads of civilization. In giant-screen 3D, we journey beside the historic footprints of three Great Faiths through a land where ancient glory inspires modern achievement and lights a path to the future.
TRON: LEGACY: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (FIP, FT)
Production Company: Walt Disney Studios, IMAX Corporation
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios
Contact: Bernie Gaw
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Format: 3D
Starring Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde.Sam Flynn (Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Bridges), looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the digital world of Tron, where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidant Quorra (Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey of escape across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.
ULTIMATE WAVE TAHITI 3D (FIP, WT)
Production Company: The Stephen Low Company
Distributor: K2 Communications
Contact: Mark Kresser, Thais Johnson
Release Date: February 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Ultimate Wave Tahiti will immerse audiences in the story of an ocean wave and the lives it impacts and transforms. From astounding surfing action featuring 9-time World Champion Kelly Slater to the chaos of ocean storms, the film leads audiences on a quest to understand one of this planet’s most intriguing and dramatic phenomena, while providing a window into the history, land, and culture of one the first people to ever ride waves--the Tahitians.
THE VISION (FORMERLY TITLED INTO THE HEART OF HEAVEN) (FID, FT)
Production Company: Blue Sky Productions and Rogues Gallery
Distributor: Blue Sky Productions
Format: 2D and 3D
Release Date: November 2011
Length: 45 minutes
Contact: Christina Stevens
The Vision is the story of a wise and dazzlingly handsome King who lives high in the Himalayas. Many say his Kingdom--rarely seen by outsiders--is the most beautiful on the planet and that his people are the happiest in the world. Sound like a fairytale? No, this is for real. And visitors who return from Bhutan are heard to remark, “it was a life changing experience.” And so it will be the audience reaction of this spectacular and thought-provoking IMAX journey.
VOLCANO! (FIP, WT)
Production Company: National Geographic and Graphic Films
Distributor: National Geographic
Contact: Antonietta Monteleone
Release Date: TBD
Format: 2D
Krakatoa, Pompeii, Pinatubo, Mount St. Helens--names that ring down through history. Join National Geographic and Graphic Films as we team up on a new mission to explore the past and work to predict the future of nature's most spectacular and deadly events--volcanoes.
WE THE PEOPLE (FIP, FT)
Production Company: Inland Sea Productions
Distributor: Jodi Capps Miller
Contact: John Altman
Release Date: September 2010
Film Length: 40 minutes
Format: 2D
This 15/70 film explores American democracy through the ideals and tenets of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. It includes dramatic reenactments, state-of-the-cinema-art CGI elements, Kenny Rogers's narration, and a score by American composers, plus a concise American history as guided by these Founding Documents.
WHEEL: THE ADVENTURES OF CHIP & SKY (FID, WT)
Producer: Wheel Media Productions
Distributor: Wheel Media Productions
Contact: Tina Ratterman
Release Date: March 2011
Format: 2D and 3D
Length: 40 minutes
An international time-travel adventure with Chip, his dog, Sky, and Freeman, the narrator and universal guide. They share a curiosity and thirst for learning that takes us to an exciting world of science and diverse cultures. Featuring an original score incorporating world folklore, Wheel ignites imagination and engages natural curiosity.
WILD CHINA: LAND OF THE PANDA (FID, WT)
Production Company and Distributor: Science North
Film Length: 40 minutes
Format: 2D and 3D
Release Date: Fall 2011
Contact: Brenda Tremblay
The giant panda is one of the world's most celebrated animals, a recognized symbol of conversation and preservation. But China's natural heritage goes far beyond the panda. With geographic diversity ranging from deserts to mountains to tropics, and wildlife found nowhere else on Earth, China is one of the richest biological regions on the planet. Science North has teamed up with the Jane Goodall Institute and China's top biologists to bring these natural wonders to giant screen theaters.
THE WILDEST DREAM (FIP, WT)
Producer: National Geographic Cinema Ventures
Distributor: National Geographic Cinema Ventures
Contact: Antonietta Monteleone
Release Date: August 2010
Format: 2D
Length: 40 minutes
Driven by Empire, torn by love, George Mallory dreamt of being the first to conquer Mount Everest. Last seen 800 feet below the summit in 1924, he vanished into legend. Modern adventurer Conrad Anker now follows Mallory's footsteps up Everest to unravel the mysteries surrounding his disappearance.