Biographies: Michele and Howard Hall
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The second film for NATURE, "Shadows in a Desert Sea," was released in 1992 and received a Golden Panda at Wildscreen92, Best Nature Film at the OkoMedia'92 Film Festival, Grand Prize award at Antibes'92 Film Festival, Best Cinematography at Japan'92 Film Festival, and the WWF Prize for Conservation at Stambecco D'Oro International Nature '93 Film Festival (Milan.)
10/22/97
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About the Filmmakers: Michele and Howard Hall
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The third production, co-produced with Michele, is the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIAL: "Jewels of the Caribbean" which aired on PBS in April, 1994. "Jewels" won two 1994 News and Documentary Emmys, for cinematography and original music.
Mr. Hall has produced eight additional educational, industrial, exhibit and half-hour TV programs from his stock footage library since he made his debut in IMAX films in 1994, and was director of underwater photography for MacGillivray Freeman's The Living Sea (nominated for a 1995 Oscar in the Documentary Short Subject category.)
He also was the Director of the first IMAX 3D underwater film, Into The Deep. New York Times critic Janet Maslin called the film "exotically beautiful" and "truly out of this world." It has subsequently experienced record breaking attendance wherever it has screened, including Montreal, Vancouver, Galveston, Chattanooga and Irvine, California. It is the highest grossing IMAX 3D film produced to date.
During the summer of 1997 the Halls completed production of Secrets of the Ocean Realm for PBS. The five-part series of hour-long specials focuses on marine wildlife behavior from around the world. Each episode features many exotic marine life behavioral sequences, many either extremely unusual or never before filmed. The series was a nominee in the Limited Series category at the 1997 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. A companion book to the series will be released late in 1997, published by Beyond Words Publishing.
Howard and Michele Hall are currently beginning production on an IMAX film in association with WGBH/NOVA and The New England Aquarium. For the first time, the magnificent marine wildlife of Cocos Island (a tiny island located 300 miles off the west coast of Costa Rica) will be brought to large format screens around the world.
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