Special Recognition Award
The Dream Is Alive

On April 4, 2012, IMAX Corporation donated two unique cameras to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. The two 70mm IMAX cameras flew a combined total of 20 space shuttle missions from 1984 to 1998. The IMAX team, led by co-inventor Graeme Ferguson, included cinematographers David Douglas and James Neihouse, audio trainers Ben Burtt and Greg Smith, scene development and content advisor Toni Myers, and Associate Producer Phyllis Ferguson. Together they trained 99 astronauts in all aspects of IMAX movie making. Using the footage they brought back, a special partnership between IMAX, NASA, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and the National Air and Space Museum enabled the production of 4 films: The Dream Is Alive, Blue Planet, Destiny in Space, and Mission to MIR. Following the phenomenal success of the first four films, 46 more astronauts and cosmonauts were trained to use IMAX 3D cameras to make Space Station 3D and Hubble 3D. Altogether, the 6 films have taken over 100 million people to space. The GSCA awards event included a panel discussion with the filmmakers and a special screening of The Dream Is Alive.

David Keighley Post Production Consulting and Print Quality Control; Director and Sound Designer Ben Burtt; the Director of Communications for Lockheed Missiles and Space, George Mulhern; Producer/Director Graeme Ferguson; Producer/Director, Writer, and Editor Toni Myers; and Director of Photography James Neihouse.