A pioneer in the giant screen industry, Greg MacGillivray has shot more than four million feet of 70mm film during his career and has been instrumental in the development of three new IMAX® cameras. His Laguna Beach, California company, MacGillivray Freeman Films, which he co-founded in 1963 with his partner, the late Jim Freeman, has been dedicated to the large-screen motion picture format since the production of their first 70mm film, To Fly!, in 1976. MacGillivray has also worked on feature films, directing and photographing sequences for Stanley Kubrick on The Shining, and filming for theAcademy Award®-nominees Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Towering Inferno.

MacGillivray has produced 27 large-format documentary films, including many of the most successful of all time including To Fly!, To The Limit, The Living Sea and Everest and most recently Dolphins, Journey Into Amazing Caves, and Coral Reef Adventure. MacGillivray's films have received numerous honors and recognition at film festivals around the world, including two Academy Award Nominations for Best Documentary Short Subject, one in 1995 for The Living Sea, and another in 2000 for Dolphins. In 1996, To Fly! became the first large-format film to be selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry where it joined such classics as Citizen Kane and Gone With The Wind as one of the most important films of the last 100 years of American filmmaking.

In addition to an extensive screenwriting career with the major studios, Mr. Lorimore as over 20 years experience in giant screen, 70mm formats. During that time he's produced many of the most successful large-format titles of all time, including Everest, Dolphins, The Living Sea, and At Sea (Writer, Producer), for which he was honored with the prestigious Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement by the Navy League of the United States in 1993.

Mr. Lorimore, along with Greg MacGillivray, was first nominated for an Academy Award® in 1995 for The Living Sea (Best Documentary Short Subject), and they were nominated in the same category again for Dolphins in 2000. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he serves on its Documentary Branch Executive Committee, as well as on the Development Team of the Chapman University School of Film & Television; and he was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the Environmental Media Association. A Cinema graduate of the University of Southern California, he currently resides in Laguna Beach, California with his three young sons.

Writer/Director/Producer Mark Krenzien has enjoyed a diverse film and television career. Beginning as an Emmy-winning film editor, and then as a documentary and music-video cinematographer, Mark’s credits include Making Michael Jackson's Thriller, as well as films for Bob Seger, Van Halen, ZZ Top, and many other pop stars. During the 1980’s, Krenzien wrote and directed documentaries for ABC, HBO, and Showtime. For over four years, he criss-crossed the US, field producing Showtime's eclectic magazine show, What's Up America. Later, Mark turned to screenwriting, which included scripts for Universal and Paramount as well as a drama The Letters From Moab. This film was honored at film festivals around the world including the Sundance Festival and also earned him an Ace nomination for Best Director.

More recently, Mark has written and/or produced, five large-format films, including MacGillivray Freeman Films’ highly acclaimed Adventures in Wild California. Krenzien believes his unusual blend of dramatic and documentary film experience is particularly suited to the world of large format films. As an avid outdoorsman, Mark continues to take pleasure in the physical rigor and unpredictable challenge of filming in far-flung, demanding locations often found in giant screen films.

Peter Metzdorf is the head of Brand Development for Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG and has worked with the entertainment industry on various projects for over fifteen years. Throughout his career he has produced many successful video games for PC and Playstation as well as many industrial film productions. His latest creative achievement—as creator of the original concept behind K.E.Küster’s industrial film “Perspectives”—resulted in a 2002 Silver WorldMedal at the New York Festivals in the category.

A fan of large format films since 1978, Metzdorf began exploring the medium in more depth in the early 1990s. His love of the format and understanding of its visual impact led him to seek a project to become involved with. In early 1998, he met with MacGillivray Freeman Films to discuss the project that is now Top Speed.

With Top Speed, Mr. Stephens has completed the fifth script he has written or consulted on for MacGillivray Freeman Films, including Journey Into Amazing Caves, The Magic of Flight, Adventures in Wild California, and Coral Reef Adventure. He is also author of book Living Mirrors: A Coral Reef Adventure (Umbrage Editions, 2003), a holistic look at coral reefs and global ecology and a companion volume to Coral Reef Adventure. As a poet, generalist, and Canaveral kid, Jack has a gift for rendering the complexities of science, in lyrical and easily graspable terms while underscoring the wonder and beauty of our world. His first novel, Triangulation (Crown, 1990) was praised by the L.A. Times as "what you hope a first novel will be, and hardly ever is."

He has contributed poetry, fiction, and articles on travel, outdoor sports and connoisseurship, to magazines as diverse as American Poetry Review, Sports Afield, Travel & Leisure, and Men's Journal. He is currently at work on a historical novel regarding the Maya and Aztec cultures of Mexico in the time of Cortez.

Born 10 November, 1955, at Cut Off, Louisiana, Glen Pitre worked his way through Harvard by fishing shrimp each summer. By age 25, American Film magazine dubbed him "father of the Cajun film" as his low-budget, local dialect costume dramas broke house records in bayou country cinemas. With the help of the Sundance Institute, his internationally-lauded 1986 Belizaire the Cajun became his first English-language production.

Besides writing and directing movies, Pitre's other works include TV documentaries, radio programming, museum design, novels, and non-fiction books. They have earned him numerous awards, grants, and honors, including a knighthood from France. His on-stage storytelling has become a regular feature of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Over the years, Pitre has also been gainfully employed as offshore oilfield laborer, house painter, cook, roadside vendor of garlic, and once, briefly, as a sleeper for an experiment on dreams.

Jason Rosenfield, A.C.E., who began his professional life as a dancer and choreographer, discovered the art of editing in his work with New York's video and dance artists in the mid-70's. He first came to international attention in the early 80's as editor of Robert Altman's Come Back To The 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, starring Cher, Kathy Bates, Karen Black and Sandy Dennis.

A two-time Emmy Award winner, Jason is also a multi-award winning writer and director of children's films who's work has been seen at the United Nations and in countries throughout the world. A partial list of awards for productions he has collaborated on include an Oscar® nomination, two additional Emmys, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism, a DGA Award, a Silver Award at the San Francisco Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the Chicago International Film Festival. In 2001 Rosenfield was elected to the prestigious American Cinema Editors. Top Speed is his first large format film.

A graduate of the USC School of Cinema, Dale Beldin has worked on numerous award-winning feature films, shorts, music videos, and behind-the-scenes TV Specials, at various times producing, directing, shooting, and cutting. One of Beldin's first major projects was helping to create the first TV-magazine format program for Showtime, What's Up America, which became Showtime's number one program for two consecutive seasons. In the 1980s, Beldin worked on a number of award-winning documentaries, music videos and behind-the scenes TV Specials. Beldin's credits include the Emmy Award-winning Who Happen To Be Gay, the Grammy Award winning Making Michael Jackson's Thriller, and behind-the-scenes TV Specials on Back To The Future, Top Gun, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade.

Beldin has also enjoyed working on many successful feature films. His feature film credits include Chuck Braverman's thriller Hit And Run, Danny DeVito's The Ratings Game, and many of John Landis' films, includingTouchstone Pictures' Oscar, Warner Bros.' Innocent Blood, Paramount Pictures' Beverly Hills Cop III, Savoy/New Line Cinema's The Stupids, and Universal Studios' Blues Brothers 2000. More recently, Beldin has been working in the large format industry, helping to edit MacGillivray Freeman's Academy Award nominated film Dolphins and now Top Speed. An avid traveler and outdoorsman, Beldin spends much of his downtime traveling to exotic lands and volunteering for local charities.

Brad Ohlund has worked in the large format industry for 25 years. Ohlund attended Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California and, beginning with the classic film To Fly!, has worked on 28 other large format films. His broad and varied assignments include filming underwater reefs in the South Pacific and primitive tribes in New Guinea and Borneo. He has filmed from a plane through the eye of a hurricane and captured on 70mm film the fury of an approaching tornado.

In 1996 Ohlund was a key member of the MacGillivray Freeman Films Everest expedition. During that three-month expedition, he served as the Photographic and Technical Consultant to the climbing camera team. He was also responsible for filming numerous scenes including the exciting and dramatic avalanche and blizzard sequences. He was directly involved in the rescue efforts during those tragic and historic days in May. Ohlund was most recently Director of Photography for MacGillivray Freeman’s recent films, Dolphins, Adventures in Wild California, Journey Into Amazing Caves, and Coral Reef Adventure.