Laguna Beach-based MacGillivray Freeman Films’ latest 3D IMAX film, “To The Arctic,” was honored with the two top prizes by the Giant Screen Cinema Association in Sacramento last week. The film won for short subject and lifelong learning. Voted on by the group’s nearly 300 members, the awards honor the 2012 best films produced for [...]
Laguna Beach’s MacGillivray Freeman Films will join an underwater expedition next week led by renowned biologist Dr. Sylvia Earle and a team of aquanauts to the world’s only remaining undersea laboratory, Aquarius Reef Base, located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The initiative will feature real-time programming to highlight the value of undersea exploration [...]
Laguna Beach filmmaker and longtime ocean conservationist Greg MacGillivray received the International Wildlife Film Festival’s lifetime achievement award last week in Missoula, Mont., where he was honored for his life’s work producing and directing 36 award-winning IMAX theatre films that promote understanding and awareness of science, wildlife and the natural world. In a double win [...]
Saving Seals by Saving the Sea Recently my wife and I attended a fundraiser for Laguna Beach’s Pacific Marine Mammal Center. The event featured a showing of the MacGillivray Freeman film “Coral Reef Adventure,” followed by local resident and film director Greg MacGillivray fielding of questions from the audience. The film brimmed with footage of [...]
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
