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For its 25th giant screen film, MacGillivray Freeman Films invites movie-going audiences to experience the mysterious world of the underground: the amazing world of caves. Premiering in select IMAX and other large-format theatres, Journey Into Amazing Caves is a visceral, suspenseful expedition with a new breed of scientists who boldly explore places once thought off-limits to human presence, let alone IMAX cameras. For Journey Into Amazing Caves, these scientists have joined up with a team of intrepid filmmakers to bring back unprecedented footage from unique and forbidding ice caves, underwater caves, and terrestrial caves. Now, for the first time, audiences can squeeze into Earth’s alien, hidden realms guided by two women cavers on the quest of a lifetime: daring to enter caves so remote and so threatening, exploring them is like exploring a new planet.
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During Journey Into Amazing Caves, audiences will wriggle through tiny, twisting passages, drop into gleaming blue labyrinths of ice, swim through flooded underground vaults, and enter a world so extreme the microscopic creatures who live there are called extremophiles. They will circle the globe, stopping in the hot, lush Yucatán; dropping into barren, frozen Greenland and flying above the primitive red rock Arizona desert. And they will hold their breath as their expedition leaders, Dr. Hazel Barton and Nancy Aulenbach, rappel down steep cliffs into unmapped chambers, hoping to bring back startling new discoveries that may unlock new cures for human disease. |
"One of the best IMAX films. . .an always engrossing, often enthralling tripinto the beauties, and all-too-frequent dangers, of cavern exploration." -- Santa Monica Daily Breeze
"[Journey Into Amazing Caves] visits some of the most beautifully exotic locations on the planet." -- Los Angeles Times
Journey Into Amazing Caves more than delivers on its title's promise. The challenges of [the caves] are formidable, and their beauty on the big screen is breathtaking."
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Best Soundtrack of the Year—2002 Giant Screen Theater Assoc. Achievement Awards. (Presented to The Moody Blues and Steve Wood)
MAC Award for Best Distributor of the Year—2001 Giant Screen Theater
Association Achievement Awards
Merit Award for Excellent Cinematography—International Wildlife Film
Festival
Gold WorldMedal—New York Festivals, 2001
Silver Screen Award—U.S. International Film & Video Awards, 2002
Silver Statuette—Telly Awards, 2002
Gold Special Jury Award—WorldFest-Houston, 2002
Intermedia-Globe Gold—World Media Festival, 2002
Bronze Plaque (Nature & Wildlife category) and Certificate of
Excellence in Media Print (Press Kit and Teacher’s Guide)—The Columbus International Film & Video Festival
Silver Hugo—International Communications Film & Video Competition
Golden Eagle Award (Documentary Feature)—CINE 2002
The highest grossing giant screen documentary film of 2001. |
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