Greg Macgillivray


Biography

Greg MacGillivray is a film director of adventurous, visually breathtaking short features for the IMAX format and is the co-founder (with Jim Freeman) of MacGillivray Freeman Films, a production company that specializes in making the technically impressive documentaries. He is also a surfer and in the late 1960s and early 1970s produced, with Freeman, a number of highly-regarded films li...

Biography

Greg MacGillivray is a film director of adventurous, visually breathtaking short features for the IMAX format and is the co-founder (with Jim Freeman) of MacGillivray Freeman Films, a production company that specializes in making the technically impressive documentaries. He is also a surfer and in the late 1960s and early 1970s produced, with Freeman, a number of highly-regarded films like "The Performers," "Waves of Change," "Free and Easy," "The Moods of Surfing," and "Five Summer Stories," the latter considered a classic by surfing aficionados. In 2010, after years of working on other types of documentaries, he returned to his love of surfing with the documentary "Hollywood Don't Surf!"," which chronicles how misunderstood the lifestyle and sport are when portrayed in motion pictures. While MacGillivray's surfing films are considered excellent, it is his extraordinary IMAX pictures such as "Everest," "The Living Sea," "Dolphins," and many others, that have proven crowd-pleasers the world over. Whether capturing life at the top of the world or at the bottom of the sea, the films are technically rich, environmentally aware documents of the complexities of life on earth.

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

To The Arctic 3D (2012)
Director
Return to Everest 3D (2012)
Director
Arabia 3D (2010)
Director
Adventures in Wild California (2000)
Director
Dolphins (2000)
Director
EVEREST (1998)
Director
Stormchasers (1997)
Director
The Living Sea (1997)
Director
The Discoverers (1993)
Director
Race the Wind (1990)
Director
To the Limit (1989)
Director
Island Child (1987)
Director
To Fly (1976)
Director
Waves of Change (1970)
Director

Cast (Feature Film)

Waves of Change (1970)
Narrator

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Journey Into Amazing Caves (2001)
Cinematographer
Dolphins (2000)
Cinematographer
Race the Wind (1990)
Cinematographer
Island Child (1987)
Cinematographer
Waves of Change (1970)
Director of Photography
Follow Me (1969)
Director of Photography

Writer (Feature Film)

Waves of Change (1970)
Screenwriter

Producer (Feature Film)

Return to Everest 3D (2012)
Producer
Arabia 3D (2010)
Producer
Journey Into Amazing Caves (2001)
Producer
Adventures in Wild California (2000)
Producer
Dolphins (2000)
Producer
EVEREST (1998)
Producer
Stormchasers (1997)
Producer
The Discoverers (1993)
Producer
Race the Wind (1990)
Producer
Time Concerto (1988)
Producer
Big Wednesday (1978)
Producer
To Fly (1976)
Producer
Waves of Change (1970)
Producer

Editing (Feature Film)

Waves of Change (1970)
Film Editor

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Big Wednesday (1978)
Photography
Sky Riders (1976)
Photography
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)
Photography

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Journey Into Amazing Caves (2001)
Other

Producer (Special)

Wild California (2000)
Producer

Life Events

Bibliography