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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. The producers will donate $1 for every ticket sold on both World Water Day (March 22) and Earth Day (April 22) towards building enough wells to benefit thousands of African school children. MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation will work with Ryan’s Well Foundation to build the wells at schools in northern Uganda, where decades of conflict have been devastating to children’s everyday lives. The mission of the Ryan’s Well Foundation is to provide clean water (e.g. deep or shallow wells, and rainwater harvesting tanks), improved sanitation (latrines and handwashing stations) and hygiene education to local communities including children. Funds raised for this program will be matched by Ryan’s Well Foundation so contributions will have twice the impact. (Spring, 2008)

	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)

	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)

	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)

	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)

	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)

	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)

The Foundation worked with artist and water advocate Wyland of Laguna Beach to create the mosaic.

On opening day of Hurricane on the Bayou at the Irvine Spectrum (California), students helped paint a giant New Orleans and wetlands-themed mosaic that said, “We Care!” which was disassembled and sent to a school in New Orleans. The mosaic was greeted with many tears by the kids of New Orleans, who, the school’s principal told us, did not realize that so many from so far away did care! The Foundation worked with artist and water advocate Wyland of Laguna Beach to create the mosaic. (click images for larger view)

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