Filmmaker: Greg MacGillivray
AFS Film Representative: Shaun MacGillivray (Producer)
Runtime: 44 min
Synopsis:
Narrated by Academy Award® winner, Robert Redford, National Parks Adventure is an immersive giant-screen experience that takes audiences on the ultimate off-trail adventure into the pristine wilderness of America’s great outdoors. Spectacularly wild and iconic places like Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Everglades, Redwood, Canyonlands and more are illuminated as never before with IMAX® 3D camera imagery. Audiences will drop into the adventure with world-class mountaineer Conrad Anker, his son Max Lowe, and friend Rachel Pohl as they mountain bike ride, ice climb, and river raft their way through the nation’s mountains and canyons, then travel back in time to America’s most famous camping trip where President Theodore Roosevelt and renowned conservationist John Muir imagined a vast National Parks system that would preserve these national treasures forever. Released to coincide with the 100th Anniversary of the U.S. National Parks, National Parks Adventure reveals a tapestry of natural wonders that will inspire the adventurer in us all.
About the Producer
Shaun’s been on filming expeditions around the world since he was a young buy, but it wasn’t until a trip to Palau at the age of 13 that he realized that his dad’s passion for storytelling was in his blood. Since then, Shaun has produced the award-winning 3D giant-screen films National Parks Adventure, Dream Big: Engineering Our World, To The Arctic, Humpback Whales, Journey to the South Pacific, and We, the Marines. Shaun leads the company’s Business Development and Partnership team and has successfully raised much of the funding for these IMAX educational films. Shaun received a MFA degree in Film Production from the University of Southern California. He and his wife Katie live in Laguna Beach with their three children. He can’t wait to take them all on expeditions and show them the wonders of nature firsthand.