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Mike Day is the director and executive producer of
the Science Museum of Minnesota's William L.
McKnight-3M Omnitheater, a 380-seat IMAX© theater,
which opened in December 1999. The museum operated
an earlier theater, which opened in 1978 and
operated for more than 20 years as one of one of the
most successful IMAX theater operations worldwide.
Besides being an exhibitor of giant screen films,
the museum is also a major producer and distributor
of films. Mike Day has served as Executive Producer
for ten giant screen films including ,
which premiered in March, 1991; ,
which premiered in February, 1992; , which premiered in May, 1993; and , which premiered in February, 1998.
He has a Bachelor of Science degree in finance and
urban economics from the University of Illinois.
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| President and
CEO of in Sudbury, Ontario, Marchbank
is a past president of the and a board member of the
. He served as executive producer of the
giant screen film , completed in the
spring of 1999. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in
economics and history from Laurentian University.
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| The former CEO of
, in Charlotte, North Carolina,
Freda Nicholson is past president of , president
of the , and
treasurer of the Museum Film Network (MFN). She has
a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing and a
Masters degree in education, supervision, and
administration from Queens College.
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| David Lickley
is a biologist-turned-filmmaker. He has over 20
years experience as a producer/director and writer.
Lickley has won international awards for his work,
and he has pioneered the use of an innovative
multimedia technique called Object Theater, which is
now featured in museums and science centers around
the world. Lickley is currently the director of
large format films at , one of North
America's acknowledged leaders in science education.
He was the producer and director of a 5
perforation, 70mm 3D film and laser show called
Shooting Star. He produced and directed a large
format film titled , which was released in
1999. Most recently, Lickley directed the film
Bears, which was released to giant screen theaters
around the world in the spring of 2001. Lickley
holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from
Acadia University, Nova Scotia, and a Master of
Science degree in zoology from the University of
Alberta.
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Reed Smoot has served as Director of Photography on
dozens of feature films for television and
theatrical release, including Homeward Bound: The
Incredible Journey for Walt Disney Pictures, The
Windwalker, Russkies, the critically acclaimed NBC
miniseries The Long Hot Summer. Smoot was cameraman
on the Academy Award winning documentary feature The
Great American Cowboy. He has specialized in the
production and photography of large format films
including Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets,
Mysteries of Egypt, Yellowstone and To Be An
Astronaut. In May 2001, he was presented with the
Kodak Vision Award for contributions to large format
filmmaking. Smoot was also awarded the 's Best
Cinematography prize in 2001. He is a charter
member of the and is
an active member of the and the .
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Kathryn Liptrott has worked as a producer for
(France), (Germany), ,
and . She has worked
as a production manager in Rwanda, the Congo, and
Tanzania. At National Geographic she served as an
associate producer/production manager in the Natural
History Unit and worked on more than 50 films. Her
most recent work was on 13 half-hour documentaries
for focused on wildlife. Liptrott is fluent in
both English and French, with a working knowledge of
Kinryarwanda from her work in east Africa. She is
currently working at Cinenova Productions in
Toronto, Canada, as a producer of high-end
documentaries for American and European audiences.
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One of the most
experienced and successful large format film editors
and producers in the industry, Lahti's credits
include The Last Buffalo, Flight of the Aquanaut,
Super Speedway, Whales, Across the Sea of Time and
Titanica. A native of Elliot Lake, Lahti previously
worked with on the production of
Shooting Star, a 70mm, 3D film and laser adventure.
His most recent credits include Gold Fever and
Bears.
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Stephen Low is
one of the world's foremost giant screen filmmakers,
with eight films to his credit and almost thirty
years of experience working in the IMAX© format.
His work in the industry has produced such works as
Titanica, The Last Buffalo, Super Speedway, and Mark
Twain's America.
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| Anne Pusey grew
up in England and did her undergraduate work in
zoology at Oxford University. Immediately after
earning her degree in 1970, she went to Gombe Stream
National Park to work for Dr. Jane Goodall as a
research assistant, studying mother-infant relations
in chimpanzees. She went on to pursue a Ph.D. at
Stanford University. Her research was on the
development of juvenile and adolescent chimpanzees
at Gombe. After completing her degree, she studied
Japanese monkeys in Japan for a short time, and then
spent 10 years studying lions in the Serengeti,
Tanzania. She is currently a McKnight Distinguished
University Professor of Ecology, Evolution and
Behavior at the University of Minnesota. Since
1995, she has directed the university's . She
oversees the curation and analysis of more than 40
years of data from the Gombe chimpanzee project, and
she supervises graduate students who work at Gombe.
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