As a filmmaker, I typically spend a few months on the road every year for various productions. Each is divided up between one- and two-week shoots. The rest of the time, I am in McGillivray Freeman’s beautiful offices in Laguna Beach, California—sitting behind a desk working on preproduction, which involves administrative work such as phone calls, scheduling, budgeting, research, and project organization. It’s tedious occasionally (after the 10^th phone call discussing permitting minutia) but rewarding, as I know it’s all working towards the same goal—securing locations that are A+ for the giant screen. We’re always searching for the hidden gems that the audience has yet to see, some place that will rouse audiences to the edge of their seat in excitement when it appears on the biggest screens in the world. We are able to bring these experiences to audiences because of the giant screen cinema industry we are connected to—it’s a one-of-a-kind film experience—and I’m so honored to be a part of it.

2018 was the 40th anniversary of the formation of an association for the giant screen industry, and Mary Jane Dodge at MacGillivray Freeman Films, as a member of the GSCA Member Services Committee, is helping GSCA with a video series to share stories about the association and the industry. In this video Mary Jane interviews Dave Duszynski, President of Mercury Museum Services, a subsidiary of Cincinnati Museum Center. In 1990, along with the opening of Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, Dave assumed responsibility of the Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX® Theater operations and has been an executive producer or consulting producer on many OMNIMAX® films during the past 20+ years, including Journey to Space, National Parks Adventure, and Volcanoes: The Fires of Creation. He is a founding officer of the Giant Dome Theater Consortium, a group of seven museums with similar OMNIMAX® theaters, for the purpose of providing financial and production support for promising new films.