This session will highlight requirements and the variety of digital 3D production. Phil Streather will talk about the experience he gathered with different stereoscopic film projects. About four million visitors a year will see his recent short film in a purpose-designed theatre in Merlin Entertainments London Eye. They will be taken to a 4D world: a 3D film combined with physical effects. One of the biggest challenges was the work on the helicopter to show a breathtaking flight over the city. Despite its short length, the movie required a creative cast of more than 100 people. The result is definitely more than an adrenaline-pumping, bone-rattling 4D experience. 

About Phil Streather
Principal Large Format (PLF) was founded in 1998 by present CEO Phil Streather. PLF is a production company dedicated to developing and producing: 3D Giant Screen (IMAX) features, 3D Theatrical Documentary features and 3D HDTV. In 1997/8 Phil produced Wildfire - feel the heat, in IMAX 2D, for Discovery Channel Pictures and in 1999 was the Producer on groundbreaking IMAX 2D drama, Legend of Loch Lomond, for Dunbartonshire Enterprise, Scotland. 

Phil’s IMAX film, Bugs! 3D, narrated by Judi Dench, has won many awards. PLF also produced the 3D film elements for the successful touring version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Starlight Express. With Pablo Post Pinewood, PLF owns the UK’s first P+S Technik 3D mirror rig for HD capture and together they produced elements of the recent Sky 3D TV tests, particularly Gladiators.  In addition, in association with Centre Screen Productions of Manchester, PLF has just produced a groundbreaking 3D film for the Merlin Entertainments London Eye 4D Experience.

Phil is also a board member of the Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA), is a member of the GSCA’s Professional Development Committee and regularly chairs/produces/participates in panels and masterclasses on 3D at industry conferences such as GSCA, NAB, IBC, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and Wildscreen Film Festival.