TONI MYERS, Producer

GRAEME FERGUSON, Producer

ANDREW GELLIS, Executive Producer

IVAN GALIN, Director (Russia)

JAMES NEIHOUSE, Director of Photography

JANE MORRISON, Editor

MICKY ERBE and MARIBETH SOLOMON, Composers

About The Filmmakers

TONI MYERS, Producer

Toni Myers began her career on early Canadian successes such as the television series This Hour Has Seven Days, Forest Rangers and Seaway, and the National Film Board feature Nobody Waved Goodbye. Moving to England, she spent six years working on various films for the BBC and music projects for the Beatles’ company, Apple. She returned to Canada to edit dramas for CBC-TV’s For The Record series, working with directors Gilles Carle, Francis Mankiewicz and Claude Jutra. Her feature film work includes: By Design, Surfacing, and Abortion: Stories from the North and South, which won first prize at the 1985 San Francisco Film Festival.

Myers began her association with Graeme Ferguson in 1967 as assistant editor of the trail-blazing multi-screen film, Polar Life. She has numerous Imax-produced films to her credit, including NORTH OF SUPERIOR, SNOW JOB, OCEAN, NOMADS OF THE DEEP, HAIL COLUMBIA!, HEARTLAND and ROLLING STONES--AT THE MAX. As a key member of the IMAX space team, Myers wrote and edited THE DREAM IS ALIVE, BLUE PLANET and DESTINY IN SPACE. More recently, she was the producer, supervising director, writer and editor for L5: FIRST CITY IN SPACE, an Imax produced 3D film.

GRAEME FERGUSON, Producer

Founder and past president of Imax Corporation, Graeme Ferguson has been an active filmmaker since the early 1950s. In 1967, his pioneering multi-screen film Polar Life was one of the hits of EXPO '67 in Montreal. Building on that success, Ferguson and his partners developed the giant-screen IMAX system, which has expanded to more than 150 specialized theatres in 22 countries around the world.

Ferguson has been involved in all stages of the development of the IMAX medium, as well as being one of the corporation's principal filmmakers. He has produced (or co-produced) such films as NORTH OF SUPERIOR, MAN BELONGS TO THE EARTH, SNOW JOB, OCEAN, HAIL COLUMBIA!; three space films THE DREAM IS ALIVE, BLUE PLANET and DESTINY IN SPACE; and the first large-format 3D underwater film INTO THE DEEP. Ferguson has been recognized with many awards, including the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal, the Canadian Government Environmental Achievement Award, and two Genie Awards, Canada’s highest film honor. In 1993, Ferguson was invested into the Order of Canada and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bradford, England. Most recently, Ferguson produced L5: FIRST CITY IN SPACE, a large-format 3D film, and was honored with NASA’s coveted Silver Snoopy Award for outstanding contribution to the space industry.

ANDREW GELLIS, Executive Producer

Andrew Gellis joined Imax Corporation as Senior Vice President, Film in January, 1996. He came to Imax after a four-year affiliation with Sony Corporation and its numerous entertainment /technology divisions, where he helped pioneer and advance Sony's entrance into the large-format filmmaking arena. He also wrote and produced Sony's highly-acclaimed 3D film ACROSS THE SEA OF TIME. In his new post at Imax, Gellis is responsible for supervising the production and distribution of the corporation's slate of pictures for both the institutional and commercial markets.

A Harvard alumni, Gellis began his career at the J. Michael Bloom Agency where he founded the literary department on both coasts. In addition to serving as a production executive at CBS Film, Inc., he has been a studio-based producer at Twentieth Century Fox and head of his own film production company.