New Films at the GSCA Film Expo and Filmmaker Symposium 2024
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet 3D |
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| Presentation | 3D, final version |
| Release | Third Quarter, 2022 |
| Formats | IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital |
| Length | 21:59 |
| Producer | BBC Earth |
| Distributor | SK Films |
| Director | Rachel Scott |
| Contact | Amber Hawtin, ahawtin@skfilms.ca |
| Website | thearcticfilm.com |
| Description | From the makers of Oceans: Our Blue Planet comes the most pressing story of our time: The Arctic, an epic 3D adventure. For millennia this frozen realm of breath-taking beauty has been the preserve of extraordinary animals and heroic people that have thrived in some of the most forbidding conditions on Earth. But today their world is vanishing with profound consequences for the health of the entire planet. From the extreme cold of winter to the height of the summer melt, we will follow the changing fortunes of the Arctic’s mystical wildlife and people. |
Asteroid Quest 3D |
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| Presentation | 3D, Final Version |
| Release | March 11, 2024 |
| Formats | 2D & 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital, Fulldome 3D, Dome-Customized |
| Length | 41:00 |
| Producer | Saint Thomas Productions |
| Distributor | Saint Thomas Productions |
| Director | Bertrand Loyer |
| Contact | Bertrand Loyer, b.loyer@saint-thomas.net |
| Website | Asteroid Quest 3D |
| Description | Discover the science behind the hit film, “Don’t Look Up”. Not only could large asteroids strike our planet, but they also hold incredible secrets. For more than two hundred years, astronomers have been wondering what asteroids are like. They believe that these primitive rocks have been concealing countless secrets for billions of years: they are time capsules that will allow them to go back in time to the formation of the solar system and the creation of Earth. Recently, major space agencies around the world have sent unmanned missions to asteroids. The most daring ones are collecting samples and bringing them back to Earth. These expeditions hold a host of surprises for researchers and shake up our understanding of these celestial bodies. At first glance, it appears unlikely that they can threaten us. But, while some circle the sun, like planets, others cross paths with Earth’s orbit. What seemed like science fiction, has now become reality: to avoid a cataclysmic collision, we are currently learning how to deflect asteroids from their celestial path! |
Astronaut: Ocean to Orbit 3D |
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| Presentation | Final version, 3D |
| Release | February 4, 2021 |
| Formats | DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital, Dome-Customized |
| Length | 20:00 |
| Producer | Oceanic Research Group |
| Distributor | MacGillivray Freeman Films |
| Director | Jonathan Bird |
| Contact | Patty Collins, pcollins@macfreefilms.com |
| Website | Astronaut: Ocean to Orbit |
| Description | In 2013, a critical life-support system on the International Space Station failed, requiring an immediate spacewalk to fix it. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy made the repair and saved the space station. As an astronaut, he was trained extensively for space walks. But how do astronauts train here on Earth to work in the microgravity of space? Astronaut: Ocean to Orbit explores how NASA uses underwater environments to simulate life and work in space, offering a fascinating look into the high-tech world of astronauts. Join astronaut Chris Cassidy as he trains in his space suit alongside a full-sized mock-up of the International Space Station in a giant underwater facility in Houston. Dive to the sea floor with NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps as she lives underwater with fellow astronauts for ten days at Aquarius Reef Base in Florida. Find out what it takes to live and work in space. Now available in 3D. |
Australia: The Wild Continent 3D |
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| Presentation | Final completed film, 3D |
| Release | First Quarter 2024 |
| Formats | 2D & 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital |
| Length | 45:00 |
| Producer | Wild Pacific Media and Definition Studios |
| Distributor | K2 Studios |
| Director | Nick Robinson and Bobbi Hansel |
| Contact | Mark Kresser, mark_kresser@k2communications.com |
| Website | |
| Description | Australia: The Wild Continent 3D carries its audience through the wildest and most beautiful landscapes in Australia in search of the hidden stories that make this continent unique. Discover flora and fauna that have evolved in splendid isolation, explore ancient landscapes sculpted by great geological forces, and learn what it means to care for Country from traditional custodians of the land. Each destination has its own unique story of formation and biological significance unlike any other place on earth. Join us for an immersive journey across the Great Southern Land, shot by the award-winning team behind Australia: The Great Wild North 3D and Mountain Adventure: Out of Bounds 3D. Experience the grandeur of Australia’s unique landscapes and learn how this evolutionary ark has sustained its unique biology for 45 million years. This is Australia, the wild continent. |
Blue Whales: Return of the Giants 3D |
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| Presentation | Final, completed film, short version |
| Release | May, 2023 |
| Formats | 2D & 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital |
| Length | 25:16 |
| Producer | Oceanic Films, HHMI-Tangled Bank Studios, California Science Center |
| Distributor | SK Films |
| Director | Hugh Pearson |
| Contact | Amber Hawtin, ahawtin@skfilms.ca |
| Website | Blue Whales |
| Description | Blue Whales are the largest animal that has ever lived, bigger than any dinosaur. Once on the verge of extinction, these gentle giants have returned. They are supreme wanderers, roaming every ocean from the Gulf of California’s vibrant waters to the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean. Join an adventure of a lifetime where no scientists have explored before and discover a long-lost Blue Whale pod. Learn how they communicate with each other across vast distances and how they are vital to the health of our oceans. What the expedition reveals will astonish you. Narrated by award-winning actor Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars) with a powerful score by Academy-Award winner Steven Price (Gravity), experience Blue Whales for the first time, life-size on the giant screen. |
Butterfly Journey 3D |
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| Presentation | Final, complete version 3D |
| Release | Second Quarter, 2024 |
| Formats | IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital, Dome-Customized |
| Length | 40:00 |
| Producer | Stranger Than Fiction Films & Definition Studios |
| Distributor | K2 Studios |
| Director | Paul Phelan |
| Contact | Mark Kresser, mark_kresser@k2communications.com |
| Website | Butterfly Journey 3D |
| Description | Beautiful, delicate yet unbelievably resilient, the butterfly is one of nature’s most enigmatic creatures. A story of adaptation and survival, we follow the vast migrations of the Blue Tigers of Australia and the Monarchs of North America and Mexico.
With the help of cutting edge slow-motion, drone and macro filming techniques, we see the butterflies’ tiny world in immaculate detail as they overcome the challenges of metamorphosis and migration, fly thousands of kilometers and as high as 3300 meters. Butterfly Journey reveals our interconnected and awe-inspiring world on the giant screen, through the eyes of the butterflies. Yet what fate awaits them when the fine-tuned climates they intimately know suddenly shift? |
Cities of the Future |
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| Presentation | Final, completed version, 3D |
| Release | February 16, 2024 |
| Formats | 2D & 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital |
| Length | 40:00 |
| Producer | MacGillivray Freeman Films |
| Distributor | MacGillivray Freeman Films |
| Director | Greg MacGillivray |
| Contact | Patty Collins, pcollins@macfreefilms.com |
| Website | Cities of the Future |
| Description | Imagine stepping 50 years into the future and finding smart cities designed to be totally sustainable. Renewable energy will be our primary power source, solar energy beamed down from space will power entire cities 24 hours a day, smart buildings and greener technologies will keep us cool, and we will ride in electric flying vehicles! Traffic jams will be a thing of the past. This isn’t science fiction. Engineers are making plans for a sustainable world right now. And it’s coming to the giant screen! Narrated by award-winning actor John Krasinski, Cities of the Future is produced by MacGillivray Freeman Films in association with the American Society of Civil Engineers, the same award-winning team that brought you Dream Big: Engineering Our World. |
Coral Sea Adventure 3D |
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| Presentation | Rough Cut |
| Release | Second Quarter 2024 |
| Formats | 2D & 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital, 8K, 4D |
| Length | 40:00 |
| Producer | Definition Studios |
| Distributor | K2 Studios |
| Director | Matt Tomaszewski |
| Contact | Mark Kresser, mark_kresser@k2communications.com |
| Website | |
| Description | Legend has it that the islands of the Coral Sea are built on the back of a giant sea turtle. This is a world where the ebbs and flows of life are made of the turquoise sea and the lush jungle. Saltwater runs through the veins of the local people, who are deeply connected to the ocean—-also some of the most important sanctuaries for endangered green sea turtles in the world. Join local conservationists as they safeguard the future of green sea turtles, one tiny new hatchling at a time. As a follow up to Turtle Odyssey (narrated by Russell Crowe), this family adventure will connect you to the pulse of life in the vibrant Coral Sea, home to UNESCO World Heritage site the Great Barrier Reef. |
Deep Sky |
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| Presentation | Final, Completed film |
| Release | Current Release |
| Formats | IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser |
| Length | 40:00 |
| Producer | IMAX |
| Distributor | IMAX |
| Director | Nathaniel Kahn |
| Contact | Zach Anderson, zanderson@imax.com |
| Website | |
| Description | Deep Sky brings the extraordinary images of the cosmos captured by NASA’s JWST Space Telescope to IMAX® for an epic experience a million miles from Earth. Award-winning Director Nathanial Kahn tells the story through scientists and engineers decoding the data and unravelling the mysteries of the cosmos. Deep Sky expands what we know about the origin of the universe, the evolution of stars and galaxies and the nature of exoplanets for an awe-inspiring journey to deep space. |
Elephants 3D: The Adventures of Little Foot |
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| Presentation | Finished, completed film |
| Release | Third quarter, 2024 |
| Formats | 2D & 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital, 8K, 4D |
| Length | 45:00 |
| Producer | Definition Studios |
| Distributor | K2 Studios |
| Director | Paul Phelan and Cam Batten |
| Contact | Mark Kresser, mark_kresser@k2communications.com |
| Website | |
| Description | Elephants are symbols of strength, power and wisdom, and they have captured our imaginations for centuries. Elephants: The Story of Little Foot is an epic journey across Africa’s Namibia desert, getting up close and personal with the largest land mammals on the planet. Making one of the world’s oldest desert home, the desert elephants are one of nature’s most inspiring examples of survival and adaptation. Follow the journey of an elephant baby, Little Foot, as she learns how to elephant from her elephant family, led by a wise Matriarch. Brave the desert’s elements and use some elephant superpowers, from finding underground aquifers to foreseeing sand storms. The Story of Little Foot will reveal the hidden magic of a seemingly otherworldly and formidable landscape, where a cast of iconic animals from giraffes, monkeys to lions form a unique canvas of life. |
Jane Goodall – Reasons for Hope |
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| Presentation | Final, completed film |
| Release | June 2023 |
| Formats | IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital |
| Length | 44:00 |
| Producer | Science North |
| Distributor | Cosmic Picture |
| Director | David Lickley |
| Contact | Antonietta Monteleone, antonietta@cosmicpicture.com |
| Website | Jane Goodall – Reasons for Hope |
| Description | Drawing on decades of work by the world’s most famous living naturalist, Jane Goodall – Reasons for Hope is an uplifting journey around the globe to highlight good news stories that will inspire people to make a difference in the world around them. Featured stories such as the Northern Bald Ibis’ migration over the Alps, the re-introduction of the American Bison by the Blackfeet Nation, the worldwide recognized Sudbury Regreening Story and inspiring youth-led initiatives align with historic footage of Jane’s beginnings as a chimpanzee researcher. Throughout, the film reinforces Jane’s four pillars of hope that signal tremendous hope for the future: the amazing human intellect, the resilience of nature, the power and dedication of young people, and the indomitable human spirit. Jane revolutionized how we view the world around us. Join her on this adventure of inspiration and hope. |
Lasting Impressions |
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| Presentation | Final, completed film |
| Release | November, 2023 |
| Formats | IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser |
| Length | 41:21 |
| Producer | Princeton Entertainment Group and Northern Gateway Films |
| Distributor | MacGillivray Freeman Films |
| Director | Dylan Andrew Pearce |
| Contact | Patty Collins, pcollins@macfreefilms.com |
| Website | Lasting Impressions |
| Description | Lasting Impressions invites audiences to rediscover the emotional power of art through this fully immersive 3D art and music experience that brings to life more than 100 of the world’s most famous French Impressionist masterworks. Audiences will experience the transformation of these masterpiece paintings as they come alive through cutting-edge 3D Motion Sculpting technology, inviting viewers to move into and through the canvas, thus fully inhabiting the worlds created by Monet, Degas, Van Gogh, Renoir, Pissarro, Seurat, Gauguin, Manet, Cezanne and others. As the paintings leap off the giant screen in stunning stereoscopy, audiences will sit with Renoir’s luncheon guests, dance with Degas’ ballerinas, float over Monet’s water lilies and soar into Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Featuring an introduction by Sophie Renoir, great-granddaughter of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Lasting Impressions is produced by Princeton Entertainment Group in association with Northern Gateway Films and presented by MacGillivray Freeman Films. |
Mesmerica XL |
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| Presentation | Rough cut |
| Release | Fourth quarter 2023 |
| Formats | IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital |
| Length | 45:00 |
| Producer | Moodswings, LLC |
| Distributor | Moodswings, LLC |
| Director | Michael Saul |
| Contact | Michael Daut, michael@mesmerica.com |
| Website | Mesmerica XL |
| Description | James Hood’s Mesmerica XL is a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, originally exhibited in planetariums and dome venues across the US and Canada, and now available for giant flat-screen theaters. Combining James Hood’s music with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The 45-minute show is a personal journey to a mental state of happiness and peace, facilitated through colorful immersive imagery and stunning 7.1 surround sound.
Mesmerica XL is designed as an evening show that can be programmed as an alternative to documentary content that plays during the daily schedule, attracting new audiences and driving a new source of revenue. |
Moonbase: The Next Step |
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| Presentation | Final, completed film |
| Release | First quarter, 2024 |
| Formats | DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital |
| Length | 21:00 |
| Producer | Moonraker |
| Distributor | Cosmic Picture |
| Director | Graham Watts, Simon Clarke |
| Contact | Antonietta Monteleone, antonietta@cosmicpicture.com |
| Website | Moonbase: The Next Step |
| Description | Moonbase: The Next Step is the story of this human endeavour, pushing scientific and technological advances to the limit. Traveling the 250,000 miles and surviving the hostile and alien conditions of reduced gravity, extreme temperatures and toxic lunar dust, we explain the science and technology for this brave mission to happen. Follow our story filled with awe, danger, trepidation and share the wonder of the lunar environment. Prepare for a hostile and breath-taking experience! |
Space: The New Frontier 3D |
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| Presentation | Final, Completed film |
| Release | Second quarter 2024 |
| Formats | IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital, 8K, 6K, 4K |
| Length | 40:00 |
| Producer | Definition Studios |
| Distributor | K2 Studios |
| Director | David Duce, David Gross, Jake Flannery |
| Contact | Mark Kresser, mark_kresser@k2communications.com |
| Description | An entire generation came of age with the indescribable awe of landing on the Moon — and the ensuing Golden Age of Space has changed our world forever for the better. More than 50 years later, what is the next step for humankind? A second golden age of space has quietly dawned on us, with new hope for humanity as a spacefaring species.
In the quest to make human spaceflight accessible within a decade, not a century, and ultimately affordable to ordinary citizens, leading innovators, entrepreneurs, engineers and daredevils are locked in a race into the unknown. From self-assembling habitats, commercial space stations, launching rockets without fuel to building the Lunar Gateway to deep space, history is in the making as we speak. Space: The New Frontier captures a time as epic as the Giant Screen, and as real as our present moment. Come aboard: life on earth or in space will not be the same again. |
Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels |
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| Presentation | Rough Cut |
| Release | April 12, 2024 |
| Formats | 2D & 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital |
| Length | 40:00 |
| Producer | MacGillivray Freeman Films |
| Distributor | MacGillivray Freeman Films |
| Director | Greg MacGillivray and Shaun MacGillivray |
| Contact | Patty Collins, pcollins@macfreefilms.com |
| Website | Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels |
| Description | Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels takes audiences inside the wonders of the human body and the incredible breakthroughs in science and bioengineering that are revolutionizing human health. Told through the inspiring stories of the researchers, doctors, scientists and patients behind these medical breakthroughs, Superhuman Body shows the extraordinary ways our bodies work – and how science and technology can help us to intervene when things go wrong. Combining state-of-the-art CGI with live action cinematography, Superhuman Body will inspire a new generation of young people to engage in STEM careers as it celebrates these new medical technologies that are saving human lives.
Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels is a rough cut. |
Wingsuit Flyers 3D: The Science of Flight |
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| Presentation | Final, completed film |
| Release | First quarter, 2024 |
| Formats | 15/70, 2D & 3D, IMAX Digital, IMAX Laser, DCI-compliant Digital, DCI-compliant Laser, D3D/Christie Cinedome, ESX Dome, Fulldome Digital, Dome-Customized |
| Length | 40:00 |
| Producer | Definition Films |
| Distributor | K2 Studios |
| Director | Paul Phelan |
| Contact | Mark Kresser, mark_kresser@k2communications.com |
| Website | Wingsuit Flyers 3D: The Science of Flight |
| Description | The quest to fly like a bird, unaided by machine has captured the imagination of humankind as long as we have been gazing upon the world’s natural flyers. Wingsuit flight provides us with the chance to experience what it would be like to fly like a bird. Along with the world’s top wingsuit flyers and with the help of ever evolving wingsuit technology, audiences will be able to take flight from the highest points in Europe, soar over landscapes in Moab that resemble Mars, fly above the Great Barrier Reef and then land on it. Along the way, we’ll answer many questions such as how a wingsuit allows the pilot to fly, how flyers find flight paths, how to fly longer and faster, and how flyers meticulously plan their flights. The film will feature incredible footage from POV helmet cameras, drones, and specially designed helicopter rigs. |