MacGillivray Freeman Films
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MacGillivray Freeman Films is an American film studio based in Laguna Beach, California and founded in the mid 1960s by Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman. Most well known for its IMAX films, the studio has produced and distributed 25 IMAX films since 1983. [Citation | title =MacGillivray Freeman Films at IMDB.com | url =http://www.imdb.com/company/co0053632/ | accessdate =2007-08-15 ] It's first film, "Five Summer Stories" is considered a surfing classic, while the film "To Fly!", produced by MacGillivary Freeman for the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum, was its first IMAX venture and was later selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry. Two its films, including "Dolphins" (2000), "The Living Sea" (1995), have been nominated for Academy Awards. Other works from the company are routinely nominated for and win award from the Giant Screen Theatre Association.
Founding partner Jim Freeman was killed in a helicopter crash in 1976, two days before the release of "To Fly!".
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