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June 24, 2014—The Wildscreen Film Festival has announced the nominees for this year’s Wildscreen Panda Awards, and a number of GSCA members have made the final cut. Congratulations to nominees BBC Earth, National Geographic Entertainment, Oxford Scientific Films, Tangled Bank Studios, Atlantic Productions, SK Films, MacGillivray Freeman Films, and IMAX Entertainment.
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June 24, 2014—IMAX Corporation and the Science Museum of Minnesota today announced an agreement to install IMAX’s next-generation digital laser projection system at the Museum’s IMAX® dome theatre, marking the first laser agreement for an IMAX dome theatre worldwide. The new technology will enable the Museum to deliver a wider array of digital content and further enhance The IMAX Experience® for its visitors.
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June 24, 2014—The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) has announced that Tammy Seldon, Executive Director of the Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA), has earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE®) credential. The CAE is the highest professional credential in the association industry. Less than five percent of all association professionals have earned the CAE.
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June 23, 2014—IMAX President Greg Foster talks to Collider.com about the new IMAX 4K 3D digital cameras, how Michael Bay originally had them for two weeks while filming
Transformers 4 but decided to keep them for the entire shoot, how IMAX will do future upgrades to the camera, and more.
Watch the Collider.com interview with Greg Foster here.
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June 16, 2014—At the 2014 IMERSA Summit in March, key stakeholders in specialty cinema discussed the convergence taking place between giant-screen film domes and digital dome theaters (aka fulldome theaters, or digital planetariums). The dialog moved representatives of leading fulldome system providers Sky-Skan, SCISS and Evans & Sutherland to form a new special interest group: AFDI, the Association of Fulldome Innovators.
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June 16, 2014—IMAX Corporation today announced an agreement for Necsel to be the exclusive worldwide provider of specified lasers for IMAX's laser projection systems. IMAX's laser projection technology will enable exhibitors to deliver a wide array of digital content—including documentaries and blockbuster films—and further enhance The IMAX Experience® for audiences.
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June 9, 2014—NBC interviews Director Pascal Vuong about the new film D-Day Normandy 1944, which is narrated by legendary newsman Tom Brokaw. See the full video here: D-Day Normandy 1944 NBC News video
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June 6, 2014—Melissa Butts has been named a 2014 McKnight Foundation Media Artist Fellow. The McKnight Foundation awards three mid-career fellowships to Minnesota media artists annually. Independent Filmmaker Project Minnesota, a film and media arts resource center in St. Paul, administers the program, each year assembling a selection panel of industry professionals who live and work outside of Minnesota.
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June 6, 2014—IMAX Corporation, Legendary Entertainment and Universal Pictures, a division of Comcast Corp., today announced an agreement to release up to 15 of the studios' upcoming films in IMAX® theatres through 2017 under an extension of the companies' long-running relationships.
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