MOUNTAIN GORILLA
THE MAKING OF THE IMAX FILM

by Adrian Warren (Director)

George Schaller, the first definitive study of Mountain Gorillas.

So in addition to the all-important support group from IMAX Corporation in Toronto, our team comprised Cameraman Neil Rettig and his Camera Assistant Kim Hayes, Sound Recordist Christopher West and Zoologist Craig Sholley - all the best in their field. Craig's experience goes back over many years of Mountain Gorilla research and culminated in his Directorship of the Mountain Gorilla Project in Rwanda which existed to advise and assist the Government in the management of Parc des Volcans, the organisation of anti-poaching patrols, and conservation education. Craig knew the gorillas individually so his knowledge was extremely valuable to our understanding of the gorillas' social behaviour and relationships. We were joined, later, by George and Kay Schaller, whose unsurpassed reputation and experience as field biologists is of international eminence, and who made, in 1959-60, the first definitive study of Mountain Gorillas.