Tag: Robert Amram

MacGillivray Freeman Films, Part 1

MacGillivray Freeman Films, Part 1

September 3, 2014 | By

Mini-portrait of IMAX documentary firm MacGillivray Freeman Films, covering To Fly! (1976), the Oscar-winning Sentinels of Silence (1971), and the Oscar-nominated IMAX shorts The Living Sea (1995) + Dolphins! (2000).

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Film: Sentinels of Silence / Centinelas del silencio (1971)

Film: Sentinels of Silence / Centinelas del silencio (1971)

September 3, 2014 | By

Although filmed in straight 35mm, Sentinels of Silence has the visual scope and splendor of an IMAX film, capturing several of Mexico’s coastal and inland archaeological jewels. With a camera strapped to a helicopter, director Robert Amram filmed the ruins of Mexico’s Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, Mitla, Tulum, Palenque, Chichen Itza and Uxma…

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