Editor's Note: To the Arctic 3D , the latest from MacGillivrary Freeman Films, opens April 20 in select IMAX theaters across the country through Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX Filmed Entertainment, as well as Greg MacGilliavray's One World One Ocean initaive. Here's an article about MacGillivrary that ran in the Summer 2011 issue of Documentary . Which documentary producer can claim to have mastered the biggest format, tackled the biggest subjects in the most extreme locations, trekked to the highest summit with the largest format camera, produced the highest-grossing documentary, headed the
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The late philosopher/deconstructionist Jacques Derrida once referred to the animal species as the "ends of man...an existence that refuses to be conceptualized." But this has never stopped human beings from trying to eliminate the boundary between them and the animal kingdom. Leave it to Werner Herzog to blow the lid off films exploring this phenomenon. His 2005 documentary Grizzly Man told the story of Timothy Treadwell, the self-proclaimed bear expert who spent 13 years living with grizzlies in Alaska, only to be killed by one. Consistent with his longtime fascination with characters whose
A girl stands in a desert landscape, swirling a hula hoop easily round her slender hips, intent on the Rubik's cube she swivels round and round, trying to solve the puzzle: One of the many images that comprise Kevin Macdonald's Life in a Day, the opening film of DocAviv, the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, an image that might well describe the festival itself: intense, full of energy and curiosity, trying to do everything at once and, amazingly, succeeding, thriving in a hot and often harsh climate. The festival was founded in 1999 by documentary filmmaker Ilana Tsur, who