Trailer for “Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk.”
Press release:
OKLAHOMA CITY - Visitors will journey across the world’s most beautiful landscapes and back during Science Museum Oklahoma’s annual Film Fest September 11-14 and 18-21. Each with a unique focus, the featured IMAX films reveal the wonders of land and water while addressing environmental issues that influence our everyday lives.
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk follows world-renowned river advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., celebrated anthropologist Wade Davis and their daughters as they embark on an exhilarating journey down the Colorado River. Filmed during a four-week river-rafting journey, the explorers investigate the relationship of changes in the Grand Canyon’s ecosystem and the increased allocation of river water to agriculture and populations that has left no water at the river’s end-the Colorado Delta.
The second film, Wildfire, showcases the gorgeous wilderness of Idaho, California and Australia as it offers IMAX film audiences an up-close experience of one of the most powerful forces in nature and the efforts put forth by trained and dedicated men and women to contain it. From smokejumpers who parachute into blazes to water-bombing helicopters, visitors discover the reason some fires are deliberately set and controlled by firefighters in order to preserve the earth’s natural resources.
A remarkable story of one of the world’s most tenacious species and human’s closest fellow predator, Wolves, presents viewers with intimate and rarely seen footage of this animal’s way of life known only to a handful of scientists. The film demonstrates the important roles numerous recovery-project efforts across the continent and changing attitudes worldwide have played in returning wolves to North America’s most beautiful wilderness-their natural habitat.
This year’s Film Fest features a Sneak Peek opportunity for visitors to see all films during an advanced screening. The Sneak Peek event will be held Tuesday, Sept. 9 from 5:30 to 9 p.m., showing all films consecutively that evening. Sneak Peek passes are available for $15 when purchased in advance and $20 when purchased at the door. Seating is limited during Sneak Peek.
Individuals may purchase a regular Film Fest pass that includes one viewing each of the films featured during this year’s Film Fest, plus one viewing of Stormchasers through October 31, 2008. Film Fest pass prices are $30 each for adults and $25 each for children and seniors.
Sneak Peek and regular Film Fest passes are available for purchase at Science Museum Oklahoma’s ticket counter or by calling (405)602-3760. For more information about the museum visit ScienceMuseumOK.org.