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Honors & Awards

Throughout the company’s 40-year history, MFF films have won many international awards.  The following outlines some recent highlights. 

Hurricane on the Bayou – Named Best Film of the Year, Best Film for Lifelong Learning, Best Soundtrack and Best Film Launch of 2007 by Giant Screen Cinema Association.
Alps – Received Best Cinematography Award for 2007 by Giant Screen Cinema Association.
Greece: Secrets of the Past – Named Best Film Soundtrack of 2006 by Giant Screen Cinema Association.
Everest The highest grossing giant screen film in history, Everest has taken in $135 million at the box office since its premiere in 1998.
To Fly! This beloved classic is still playing at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum more than twenty-five years after it first opened.  To Fly! was selected by the Library of Congress in 1996 for preservation in the National Film Registry, America’s film archive, where it joins such classics as Birth of a Nation, Gone With The Wind, and Citizen Kane as one of the most important films in 100 years of American filmmaking.
Coral Reef Adventure Named the 2003 Best Film of the Year by the Giant Screen Theater Association and the highest grossing giant screen documentary of the year.
The Living Sea Nominated for a 1995 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Dolphins – Nominated for a 2000 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.  Selected for the Best Lifelong Learning Film by the Giant Screen Theater Association in 2001.

Archives

MFF-ED Films:
If you’d like to learn more about the Foundation’s films, you can visit the websites for each film at… 

Hurricane on the Bayou
Greece: Secrets of the Past
Coral Reef Adventure

Other MFF films produced in the 15/70mm format: 

Adventures in Wild California (2001)
The Alps (2007)
Behold Hawaii (1983)
Dance of Life (1984)
The Discoverers (1992)
Dolphins (2000)
Emeralds of the Sea (1991)
Everest (1998)
Flyers (1982)
Homeland (1990)
Indonesia Indah IV (1994)
Island Child (1986)
Journey Into Amazing Caves (2001)
The Living Sea (1995)
The Magic of Flight (1996)
Mystery of the Nile (2005)
Race the Wind (1989)
Speed (1984)
Stormchasers (1995)
Time Concerto (1988)
To Fly! (1976)
To the Limit (1989)
Top Speed (2003)
 
Scene from the award-winning Hurricane on the Bayou.
Scene from the award-winning Hurricane on the Bayou.
Scenes from the award-winning Hurricane on the Bayou. (click images for larger view)
 
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