Sudbury, ON – Science North’s IMAX® film Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees has been selected for the second year in a row as a finalist for the "Best Film" honour at the 2004 Giant Screen Theatre Association (GSTA) Achievement Awards. In 2003, it won the "Best Film for Learning" and "Best Film Launch" Awards from the GSTA, and was also a finalist for the "Best Film" Award.
The GSTA Awards recognize achievements in film in the giant screen industry. Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees is one of five finalists for the "Best Film" Award, selected from a group of 22 international giant screen films. The 2004 Awards will be presented during the GSTA Achievement Awards Gala on Sunday September 12 at the Centre Mont-Royale in Montreal.
"We're excited to be honoured with another nomination in the "Best Film" category," said Jim Marchbank, Science North's CEO and Executive Producer of Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees. ~ "It's a tribute to the quality of this great family film, its wide audience appeal and excellent education value."
The film, which has been leased by more than 70 large screen theatres including most of the educational theatres world-wide, premiered in Sudbury in May 2002 with Dr. Jane Goodall in attendance.
Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees is a giant screen journey into the hearts, minds and world of wild chimpanzees with the world's most famous field researcher, Dr. Jane Goodall. The film chronicles Dr. Goodall's more than 40 years of legendary work among the chimps at Gombe Park on Lake Tanganyka in Africa. Viewers will be led by Dr. Goodall, as well as the new generation of young researchers, into the daily lives of the now famous Gombe chimp families; Fifi and sons Freud and the turbulent alpha male Frodo, along with Gremlin, Gaia and the endearing Galahad.
Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees is a Science North production, directed by Science North's David Lickley. ~It is the third giant-screen film produced by Science North, the only science centre that does in-house IMAX production. ~The film's executive producers are Jim Marchbank, CEO, Science North; Mike Day, Director and Executive Producer of the OMNI Theatre at the Science Museum of Minnesota; and Freda Nicholson, President Emeritus of Discovery Place Inc. in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Giant Screen Theater Association (GSTA) is an international association of large format theatres with an educational focus. ~
Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees is now playing daily at 4 p.m. on the giant 5-storey screen at the Science North IMAX Theatre.
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