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 Chris Palmer To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Wildlife Film Festival - Longtime environmental filmmaker and President of the MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation, Chris Palmer has been named the recipient of the 2009 International Wildlife Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Media. This prestigious award is presented to the individual whose life’s work best represents the Festival’s mission of promoting awareness and understanding of wildlife, habitat, people and nature through excellent film, television and other media. The award will be presented at the 32nd IWWF in Missoula in May 2009. (November 14, 2008)
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Greg MacGillivray to Receive Prestigious Environmental Award At Reef Rescue 2008 Gala - Longtime giant screen filmmaker Greg
MacGillivray of MacGillivray Freeman Films and MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation will be honored by Reef Check Foundation, the world’s largest reef conservation organization, at its 6th annual Reef Rescue 2008 Gala on November 15. MacGillivray will receive the prestigious 2008 Spirit of the Reef Award for his deep commitment to ocean conservation and his lifetime work documenting the beauty and fragility of the reefs and oceans in such IMAX Theatre films as Coral Reef Adventure, Dolphins and The Living Sea, and in his early surfing films including the 1972 surf classic, Five Summer Stories. This year’s exclusive event will be held at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. (November 5, 2008)
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Grand Canyon Adventure Honored With Three GSCA Achievement Awards Including Best Cinematography, Best Marketing and Special Achievement in Filmmaking - Highlighting the successful creative and marketing force behind MacGillivray Freeman’s first 3D film for IMAX® Theatres, Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk was awarded three GSCA Achievement Awards at the annual Giant Screen Cinema Association conference in Jersey City last week. The film won Best Cinematography, Best Marketing by a Distributor, and a Special Achievement in Filmmaking Award presented to Alan Markowitz of Visceral Image Productions and Tim Sassoon of Sassoon Film Design for the film’s groundbreaking 3D visual effects. (Sept. 19, 2008)
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MacGillivray Freeman Films To Donate A Portion Of Box Office Sales From Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D To Build Much-Needed Wells in Africa - MacGillivray Freeman Films, producers of the new 3D giant screen water conservation film Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D today announced a program to donate a portion of the film’s box office sales to build much-needed wells in Africa. More than one million children die each year in Africa from a lack of safe drinking water. (Spring, 2008)
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MFF Educational Foundation hosts thousands of Children in New
Orleans, Santa Ana (CA) and St. Louis at Hurricane on the Bayou - Pilot Program in New Orleans: Audubon Nature Institute (ANI) and its Entergy IMAX Theater in New Orleans were chosen by the MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation to serve as a site for a pilot program for reaching disadvantaged youth with giant screen films. Beginning in January 2007, ANI invited classrooms from Title I schools in the Greater New Orleans and Baton Rouge areas to see Hurricane on the Bayou. Foundation support paid for tickets to see the film, a bus transportation allowance and a “Save the Wetlands” bookmark for each child attending. Through June 30, 25 schools in 14 parishes have participated, serving more than 2000 students. (Fall, 2007) |
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MacGillivray Freeman Films Honored With Six GSCA Achievement Awards
including Best Film of the Year for Hurricane on the Bayou and Best Cinematography for The Alps - Premier independent giant screen film producer MacGillivray Freeman Films was honored with six GSCA Achievement Awards at this year’s annual Giant Screen Cinema Association conference in Vancouver, winning in all production categories for which it was eligible. Hurricane on the Bayou received three awards—Best Film of the Year, Best Sound, Best Film for Lifelong Learning—and The Alps received the Best Cinematography Award. A Special Achievement in Filmmaking Award was also presented to Ron Goodman, the founder of Spacecam and The Alps director of aerial photography, for his groundbreaking aerial cinematography in the Swiss Alps. (Oct. 4, 2007) |
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MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation Funds 3,000 Underserved Orange County Students to See “Hurricane on the Bayou” at the Irvine Spectrum IMAX® Theatre - Hurricane on the Bayou From Two-Time Academy Award®-nominated Producers MacGillivray Freeman Films Opens February 2 at the Irvine Spectrum IMAX Theatre; Shot in the Midst of Hurricane Katrina, the Giant Screen Film Sounds The Call To Restore The Vital Wetlands of Louisiana and Give Hope to New Orleans (Jan. 25, 2007) |
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Greece: Secrets of the Past Is the Highest Grossing 2-D Original Giant Screen Film Of 2006; Box Office Surpasses $10 Million and Counting - The Release Marks MacGillivray Freeman’s Sixth Consecutive Great Adventure Film® Release to Become the Highest Grossing Giant Screen 2-D Documentary Film of the Year in Which It Was Released (Jan. 17, 2007) |
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MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation Launches New Education Program for Underserved Students of New Orleans - Foundation To Sponsor Classroom Field Trips To The Entergy IMAX® Theatre To See The New Giant Screen Film Hurricane on the Bayou; Pilot Program Will Expand to Other U.S. Cities Next Year (Sept. 15, 2006) |
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Chris Palmer Named President of Educational Foundation - Former Head of National Wildlife Productions To Lead New MFF Initiatives As Director of the MFF Educational Foundation (Sept. 1, 2004) |
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