See GREAT WHITE SHARK (FOR FREE!) and Write a Review!
Carnegie Science Center has a special offer for all Macaroni Kid families!
Parents are invited to bring their kids to see the new Omnimax movie Great White Shark! (SEE DESCRIPTION BELOW)
We’ll then move to tables, give kids paper and pencils, and ask them to write a “review”– just a few sentences about how they liked the movie and what they liked about it. (Some reviews will even be posted on Macaroni Kid publications throughout Pittsburgh!)
Saturday, June 28, 9:30 – 11:30 am (film begins at 10 am and runs 45 minutes; the rest of the time is for review writing)
Reviews will be posted on a board in the Omnimax lobby. We’ll ask each kid to sign his or her review with first name, age, and neighborhood. Authors will be given a shark tooth fossil and a poster about the movie.
The filmmakers recommend the movie for people age 7 and up. There is no blood or gore.
Read more about the movie and watch the trailer!
The event is free, but advance registration is necessary. Sign up here.
After this event, you may purchase admission to Carnegie Science Center for the rest of the day – of course, members always visit free!
Limited capacity, so register soon. Due to the great demand for Carnegie Museums events, we are unable to keep a waiting list.
MORE ABOUT GREAT WHITE SHARK BELOW:
What do we really know about the creature we love to fear? Great White Shark explores this beautiful animal’s place in our imaginations, in our fears, and in its role at the top of the oceanic food chain. The creatures pre-date dinosaurs in evolutionary history. They’ve evolved to regulate their body temperature and give birth to live pups, much like mammals. But do we feel the same warmth toward them that we might to land-living carnivores such as lions, tigers, and bears? Why not? Great White Shark explores these questions and more in a giant screen film adventure. The IMAX film, distributed by Giant Screen Films and produced by Yes/No Productions and Liquid Pictures, opens at Carnegie Science Center’s Rangos Omnimax Theater – Pittsburgh’s biggest screen – on June 13 with daily showtimes.
Narrated by Bill Nighy (Love Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean), Great White Shark dives to the depths of human daring to tell the true story of the misunderstood creature at the top of the oceanic food chain. Three years in the making, the film whisks viewers around the world to great white hotspots, including Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, and California. The film examines what we know about these incredible animals through the eyes of several people whose lives and work have been inextricably linked to great whites.
“Our mission is to change people’s attitudes toward the great white,” said Steve McNicholas, co-director of the film. “It’s not the menacing, evil predator it’s made out to be. It’s simply performing its crucial role at the top of the ocean’s food chain. Great whites are not monsters any more than the polar bears or lions that we revere.”
To gain worldwide awareness of the plight of all sharks, Great White Shark has teamed with notable international conservation organizations Oceana and WildAid to educate viewers about the fate of sharks at the hands of Earth’s greatest predator of them all—humans.
More than one-third of all open-ocean shark species are endangered, and up to 73 million sharks are killed by fisherman every year for shark fin soup.
Dr. Geoff Shester, California Program Director of Oceana, said that juvenile great whites are regularly caught as by-catch in gillnets in certain fisheries off California and Mexico, yet scientists estimate only a few hundred adult and juvenile great white sharks remain in the entire West Coast population. Oceana is working to protect this population of great whites by winning endangered species status for these sharks from California and the U.S. federal government.
“Their future is now in our hands,” said Shester. “Listing great white sharks as an endangered species is the best way to afford reasonable protections from fishing, while promoting research to ensure they remain part of the ocean ecosystem for another million years to come.”
The 40-minute film dazzles because a uniquely designed camera captured higher resolution images and slow-motion underwater footage than ever before.
For more information about Great White Shark at Carnegie Science Center, including prices and showtimes, visit CarnegieScienceCenter.org. For more information about Great White Shark, visit www.greatwhitesharkfilm.com.
