June 17, 2019—The Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA) is pleased to announce the locations and dates for its 2020 events. The GSCA Film Expo will take place in Los Angeles on March 9-10, 2020. The AMC CityWalk IMAX Theatre and Universal City Hilton will host, as they did for the GSCA Film Expo 2019. The 2020 GSCA International Conference and Trade Show will be held in Chicago, Illinois, on September 22-24, 2020. On September 25, GSCA will host a symposium, which will focus on strategies for theater sustainability and success. The Navy Pier IMAX Theatre will host flat-screen presentations, and the Museum of Science and Industry Giant Dome Theater will host presentations on the dome screen.

June 10, 2019—Canada’s leading production, distribution and digital company Sinking Ship Entertainment (SSE) is thrilled to announce its expansion into museum and institutional sales. Joining the team is industry expert Jennifer Lee Hackett, who will lead the sale of Dino Dana: The Movie and its companion AR and VR experiences to museums, science centres and the attraction market. Jennifer will be at the Giant Screen Cinema Association Conference in September 2019, where Dino Dana: The Movie will preview to the museum industry.

May 29, 2019—BBC Studios are excited to announce that SK Films has been appointed as the theatrical distributor for Antarctica: Into the Unknown, BBC Earth’s next IMAX^®/giant screen film produced by the world-renowned BBC Studios Natural History Unit. SK Films will distribute Antarctica in all formats.

May 29, 2019—Giant Screen Films (GSF) is pleased to announce Dinosaurs of Antarctica, a large-format film launching globally into museum and IMAX® cinemas in February 2020. The first original large-format dinosaur film in over a decade, Dinosaurs of Antarctica will introduce audiences to the amazing and bizarre prehistoric creatures that inhabited Antarctic forests and swamps hundreds of millions of years ago. With major support provided by the National Science Foundation, the film follows a team of paleoecologists on a quest to understand the southern continent’s profound transformation, from a warm and bio-diverse Mesozoic to the frozen desert we know today.

May 15, 2019—Evans & Sutherland (E&S) is proud to announce Estelle Pacalon as the Show Distribution and Sales Manager overseeing distribution of its extensive library of fulldome shows, as well as projects in South America. Estelle will be based out of Europe and is the second addition to the E&S sales team this year. E&S is committed to serving its customers by bringing together passionate, long-time industry experts with a reach across the globe.

May 10, 2019—MacGillivray Freeman Films and CNN Films are proud to announce the release of Todd Douglas Miller’s Apollo 11: First Steps Edition, an exclusive giant screen documentary opening in select science centers and museum-based IMAX^® and giant screen theaters starting May 17, 2019. Produced by Statement Pictures in partnership with CNN Films and distributed by MacGillivray Freeman Films, Apollo 11: First Steps Edition is a special giant screen version of the critically-acclaimed theatrical documentary Apollo 11 released earlier this year. Apollo 11: First Steps Edition will open exclusively in science centers and museum-based giant screen theaters as part of the much-anticipated global celebration of the 50^th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission—the first to put men on the Moon.

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May 2, 2019—Evans & Sutherland (E&S), the inventor of computer graphics and the digital dome, announces DomeX: a revolution in dome cinema display technology. DomeX incorporates LEDs directly into the dome surface, turning it into an active video display.

April 18, 2019—In the new documentary Apollo 11, director Todd Douglas Miller uses rarely-seen archival footage to make the lunar mission feel vivid, tense, and recent. The Smithsonian's Air & Space magazine interviews Miller for a behind-the-scenes look at how the film was made. Click here to read the interview.