MacGillivray Freeman Films
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Based in Laguna Beach, California, MacGillivray Freeman Films was founded in the early 1960s by Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman. The first films produced by the two included such surfing classics as Five Summer Stories. They then shot sequences for the Academy Award winning movies Sentinels of Silence and Johnathon Livingston Seagull, among others. MacGillivray and Freeman were set to release their first big - screen movie, To Fly!, in 1976. Just two days before the movie's premiere, however, tragedy struck. Jim Freeman was killed in a helicopter crash while on a test shoot in California. In 1996, To Fly! was selected by the Librarian of Congress for induction into the National Film Registry. In this honor, it joined such movies as Gone with the Wind, as "one of the most important films in 100 years of American filmmaking history". Since Freeman's death, MacGillivray Freeman Films has continued pioneering in IMAX cinematography. Some of their recent IMAX films include: Dolphins, Adventures in Wild California, Everest, The Living Sea, Coral Reef Adventure, Stormchasers, Mystery of the Nile, The Magic of Flight, Chronos, Amazon, Journey into Amazing Caves, and many more.
