The following new films will be screened at the GSCA International Conference and Trade Show.
FT = Final Title
WT = Working Title
D = Will also screen during Dome Day
Arabia 3D (FT, D)
Release Date: February 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Film Length: 45 minutes
Producer: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films Distribution Company
Contact: Alice Casbara-Leek
Travel to an exotic and extraordinary land. Arabia 3D will have you riding the dunes with a camel caravan, diving into the treasure-laden Red Sea, exploring the ruins of a towering lost city, hurtling back into the Islamic golden age of invention, and joining the Hajj, where each year 2-3 million Muslims arrive in the holy city of Makkah to reaffirm their faith, creating the largest single human gathering on Earth. It is a land precious few outsiders will ever visit, a world cloaked in myth, mystery and misinformation. Arabia 3D offers a deeper understanding of this most fascinating culture and way of life.
Around the World in Fifty Years (WT)
Release Date: End 2010-Early 2011
Format: 2D and 3D
Film Length: 85 minutes
Producer: nWave Pictures
Distributor: nWave Distribution
Contact: Goedele Gillis
Around the World in Fifty Years 3D tells the story of a sea turtle from birth in 1959 to maturity in 2009.This computer-generated animated tale is a coming-of-age-movie about growing up and friendship. Spending 50 years in the oceans puts us in an unusual vantage point to witness some of the major changes that the ever-growing human presence is having on our planet.
Furusato: World Heritage Sites Viewed from Space (FT)
Release Date: April 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Film Length: 38 minutes
Producer: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation/TBS Vision
Distributor: TBS Vision/Sarai Inc.
Contact: Aya Suzuki
Since 2006, the Japanese Advanced Land Observation Satellite, DAICHI, has been observing World Heritage sites from space with three high-tech sensors. It has inspired this film, which uses images of World Heritage sites taken from space and here on Earth with a 4K digital camera. With a story told from the children who live near the sites, the film will immerse audiences in the breathtaking structures created by nature and by man. The original script is by Kundo Koyama, winner of an 81st Academy Award for Okuribito (The Departures). World Heritage sites are a present to our future.
Hubble 3D (FT)
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Length: 43 minutes
Through the power of IMAX 3D, Hubble 3D will enable moviegoers to journey through distant galaxies to explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings, and accompany space-walking astronauts as they attempt some of the most difficult and important tasks in NASA's history. Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, Hubble 3D reunites the Space Station 3D filmmaking team, led by Producer/Director Toni Myers. Hubble 3D is an IMAX and Warner Bros. Pictures production, in cooperation with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Legends of Flight (FT, D)
Release Date: June 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Film Length: 45 minutes
Producer: The Stephen Low Company
Distributor: K2 Communications
Contact: Mark Kresser
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.
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (FT, D)
Release Date: June 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Film Length: 50 minutes
Producer: Jupiter 9 Productions and Digimax Inc.
Distributor: Jupiter 9 Productions (all territories outside Asia) and Digimax Inc. (Asia only)
Contact: Harry Kloor
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey is CGI, 3D, science fiction, action-adventure film that 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.
Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World (FT, D)
Release Date: May 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Film Length: 41 minutes
Producer: N3D Land Productions and Mantello Brothers Productions
Distributor: 3D Entertainment Distribution
Contact: Julien Bollee
Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World takes audiences on a wondrous adventure 200 million years back in time. Join an imaginative young woman and explore a fascinating underwater universe inhabited by larger-than-life creatures--the powerful Liopleurodon, the long-necked Elasmosaurus, and the gigantic 75-ft long Shonisaurus--which were ruling the seas before dinosaurs conquered the earth! Thanks to state-of-the-art CGI imagery, see science come alive at IMAX theaters in an entertaining way. Immerse your audience in a lost age and get ready for a face-to-face encounter with the T-Rex of the seas!
The Ultimate Wave Tahiti (FT, D)
Release Date: February 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Film Length: 47 minutes
Producer: The Stephen Low Company
Distributor: K2 Communications
Contact: Mark Kresser
Featuring nine-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater, The Ultimate Wave Tahiti will immerse audiences in the story of an ocean wave and the lives it impacts and transforms. From astounding 3D surfing action 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.
The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest (FT)
Release Date: August 2010
Format: 2D
Film Length: 93 minutes
Producer: Atlantic Productions
Distributor: National Geographic Entertainment
Contact: Mark Katz
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.
Click here for information on how to submit a film project to screen at the conference.
The following new films will be screened at the GSCA International Conference and Trade Show.
FT = Final Title
WT = Working Title
D = Will also screen during Dome Day
Arabia 3D (FT, D)
Release Date: February 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Film Length: 45 minutes
Producer: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films Distribution Company
Contact: Alice Casbara-Leek
Travel to an exotic and extraordinary land. Arabia 3D will have you riding the dunes with a camel caravan, diving into the treasure-laden Red Sea, exploring the ruins of a towering lost city, hurtling back into the Islamic golden age of invention, and joining the Hajj, where each year 2-3 million Muslims arrive in the holy city of Makkah to reaffirm their faith, creating the largest single human gathering on Earth. It is a land precious few outsiders will ever visit, a world cloaked in myth, mystery and misinformation. Arabia 3D offers a deeper understanding of this most fascinating culture and way of life.
Around the World in Fifty Years (WT)
Release Date: End 2010-Early 2011
Format: 2D and 3D
Film Length: 85 minutes
Producer: nWave Pictures
Distributor: nWave Distribution
Contact: Goedele Gillis
Around the World in Fifty Years 3D tells the story of a sea turtle from birth in 1959 to maturity in 2009.This computer-generated animated tale is a coming-of-age-movie about growing up and friendship. Spending 50 years in the oceans puts us in an unusual vantage point to witness some of the major changes that the ever-growing human presence is having on our planet.
Furusato: World Heritage Sites Viewed from Space (FT)
Release Date: April 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Film Length: 38 minutes
Producer: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation/TBS Vision
Distributor: TBS Vision/Sarai Inc.
Contact: Aya Suzuki
Since 2006, the Japanese Advanced Land Observation Satellite, DAICHI, has been observing World Heritage sites from space with three high-tech sensors. It has inspired this film, which uses images of World Heritage sites taken from space and here on Earth with a 4K digital camera. With a story told from the children who live near the sites, the film will immerse audiences in the breathtaking structures created by nature and by man. The original script is by Kundo Koyama, winner of an 81st Academy Award for Okuribito (The Departures). World Heritage sites are a present to our future.
Hubble 3D (FT)
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Length: 43 minutes
Through the power of IMAX 3D, Hubble 3D will enable moviegoers to journey through distant galaxies to explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings, and accompany space-walking astronauts as they attempt some of the most difficult and important tasks in NASA's history. Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, Hubble 3D reunites the Space Station 3D filmmaking team, led by Producer/Director Toni Myers. Hubble 3D is an IMAX and Warner Bros. Pictures production, in cooperation with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Legends of Flight (FT, D)
Release Date: June 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Film Length: 45 minutes
Producer: The Stephen Low Company
Distributor: K2 Communications
Contact: Mark Kresser
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.
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (FT, D)
Release Date: June 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Film Length: 50 minutes
Producer: Jupiter 9 Productions and Digimax Inc.
Distributor: Jupiter 9 Productions (all territories outside Asia) and Digimax Inc. (Asia only)
Contact: Harry Kloor
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey is CGI, 3D, science fiction, action-adventure film that 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.
Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World (FT, D)
Release Date: May 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Film Length: 41 minutes
Producer: N3D Land Productions and Mantello Brothers Productions
Distributor: 3D Entertainment Distribution
Contact: Julien Bollee
Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World takes audiences on a wondrous adventure 200 million years back in time. Join an imaginative young woman and explore a fascinating underwater universe inhabited by larger-than-life creatures--the powerful Liopleurodon, the long-necked Elasmosaurus, and the gigantic 75-ft long Shonisaurus--which were ruling the seas before dinosaurs conquered the earth! Thanks to state-of-the-art CGI imagery, see science come alive at IMAX theaters in an entertaining way. Immerse your audience in a lost age and get ready for a face-to-face encounter with the T-Rex of the seas!
The Ultimate Wave Tahiti (FT, D)
Release Date: February 2010
Format: 2D and 3D
Film Length: 47 minutes
Producer: The Stephen Low Company
Distributor: K2 Communications
Contact: Mark Kresser
Featuring nine-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater, The Ultimate Wave Tahiti will immerse audiences in the story of an ocean wave and the lives it impacts and transforms. From astounding 3D surfing action 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.
The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest (FT)
Release Date: August 2010
Format: 2D
Film Length: 93 minutes
Producer: Atlantic Productions
Distributor: National Geographic Entertainment
Contact: Mark Katz
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.
Click here for information on how to submit a film project to screen at the conference.