Greg MacGillivray

Greg Alexander MacGillivray (born June 4, 1945 in San Diego , California ) is an American documentary filmmaker ( film director , film producer , cameraman and film editor ).

Live and act

The son of a naval officer was born in the US Navy base San Diego and grew up in Corona del Mar, Orange County. At the age of 13, MacGillivray began to indulge in his passion, surfing , and soon afterwards made his first surf films as a high school boy, which he showed in his parents' garage for an entrance fee of 25 US cents. In 1964, the 19-year-old released his first professional full-length film, A Cool Wave of Color , with which he stayed true to his favorite subject. Together with another college student, Jim Freeman, who shared both MacGillivray's enthusiasm for film and surfing, the Californian founded a joint production company, MacGillivray-Freeman-Films, in 1966. Free and Easy was the first joint project for both men. With Waves of Change , a monstrous production lasting three hours, the two filmmakers devoted themselves to all aspects of surfing. With Five Summer Stories , MacGillivray's last surf film was released in 1972, which he re-released every year in a modified (read: updated) form until 1979.

In the meantime, word of MacGillivray and Freeman's skills got around to the offices of Hollywood studio bosses, and in 1973 and 1974, respectively, the duo were hired for second-unit activities (e.g. helicopter shots) for the two successful films The Jonathan Seagull and Flaming Inferno . Greg MacGillivray not only provided the script for the kidnapping drama On the Track of the Eagle in 1975, but also the spectacular aerial shots. MacGillivray was also involved as a helicopter cameraman in the subtle Kubrik horror The Shining starring Jack Nicholson . In the following years, Greg MacGillivray developed into an IMAX specialist. In later years he expanded his field of activity for film documentaries considerably: he filmed on the Nile as well as in the Alps , on coral reefs as well as in Greece , most recently in 3-D also at exotic destinations such as Arabia, the ocean and the Arctic . Greg MacGillivray received an Oscar nomination for Best Short Documentary Film in 1996 and 2001 for two documentaries that took him back to the seas, The Living Sea and Delfine . On other occasions such as the Blue Ocean Film Festival, the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards, and the Giant Screen Cinema Association, his works Delfine, National Parks Adventure, and America Wild have received awards.

Movies

Direction and / or production and / or camera and / or script and / or editing

• 1964: A Cool Wave of Color
• 1965: The Day War Came to Malibu
• 1965: The Performers
• 1966: Free and Easy
• 1967: Moods of Suring
• 1968: The Loser
• 1969: Who's Best
• 1970: Waves of Change
• 1971: Expression Session
• 1972: Five Summer Stories
• 1975: The Sunshine Sea
• 1976: To Fly!
• 1976: The Magic Rolling Board
• 1983: Behold Hawaii
• 1984: speed
• 1987: Island Child
• 1989: Race the Wind
• 1994: Beautiful Indonesia
• 1995: Wonder World of the Seas (The Living Sea)
• 1996: The Magic of Flight
• 1998: Everest - summit without mercy (Everest)
• 2000: Dolphins (Dolphins)
• 2000: Adventures in Wild California
• 2001: Journey Into Amazing Caves
• 2003: Coral Reef Adventure
• 2005: The Blue Nile (Mystery of the Nile)
• 2006: Greece: Secrets of the Past
• 2006: Hurricane on the Bayou over Louisiana
• 2007: The Alps (The Alps)
• 2008: Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk
• 2010: Hollywood Don't Surf!
• 2011: Arabia 3D
• 2012: To the Arctic 3D
• 2013: Journey to the South Pacific
• 2015: Humpback Whales
• 2016: National Parks Adventure
• 2017: We, the Marines
• 2018: America's Musical Journey
• 2019: America Wild
• 2020: Ocean Planet 3D

Individual evidence

1. ^ Greg MacGillivray on californiabirthindex.org

Web links

• Greg MacGillivray in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• biography