Board Members
GREG MACGILLIVRAY
Chairman
Greg MacGillivray has been producing and directing award-winning films for more than 40 years. He co-founded his Laguna Beach-based company, MacGillivray Freeman Films, in 1963. Today, he has more than fifty films to his credit, including more than thirty IMAX productions.
Since the 1976 production of his first IMAX ® Theatre film, To Fly!, which he co-produced and directed with his partner, the late Jim Freeman, Greg has dedicated his company to the giant-screen motion picture format and has produced some of the most enduring films in the genre.
Greg has received two Academy Award ® nominations for Best Documentary Short Subject: first in 1995 for The Living Sea and secondly in 2000 for Dolphins. In 1996, To Fly! was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry, America's film archive, where it joined such classics as Birth of a Nation, Gone With the Wind and Citizen Kane as one of the most important films in American filmmaking. Five years later, To Fly! was inducted into the IMAX Hall of Fame. In 1998, the company's dramatic film about climbing the world's tallest peak, Everest, broke industry attendance records and today remains the highest grossing IMAX Theatre film of all time.
Before turning to IMAX Theatre films, Greg had success working in Hollywood, directing and photographing for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, and filming for Academy Award-nominated films Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Towering Inferno.
Greg has advanced the art of filmmaking too, capturing some of the first water shots of surfers at Pipeline for his film Five Summer Stories, and pushing the design of a new IMAX camera which was carried to the summit of Mount Everest.
Greg has received numerous awards for his pioneering contributions to the giant-screen industry. In 2002, the Giant Screen Theater Association honored Greg as one of the five most important contributors to the success of the large format industry. That same year, Greg accepted the Bradford Washburn Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Museum of Science in Boston, for his contribution to science education. Greg serves on the board of advisors for The Great Park in Orange County, The Ocean Institute in Dana Point, and Reef Check Foundation in Los Angeles.
BARBARA MACGILLIVRAY
Director, Secretary/Treasurer
With a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Barbara MacGillivray has worked for 30 years in Children, Youth Services for the Orange County Health Care Agency. She has been active in philanthropic work in Laguna Beach for the School Power Foundation as well as for the Orange County Homeless Shelter (The Friendship Shelter) and for Crystal Cove Alliance. Barbara has worked with MacGillivray Freeman Films in multiple production, research, and development roles for the past 40 years. She recently retired to devote herself full-time to One World One Ocean. She oversees the organization's ocean alliances and is liaison to the Foundation's Science Advisory Board.
SYLVIA EARLE
Director and Principal Advisor
The most celebrated and honored of all oceanographers, Dr. Sylvia Earle is an author, lecturer, explorer, leader, and research scientist who has led more than 70 expeditions, logging more than 6,500 hours underwater. She holds numerous diving records, including setting the women's depth record for solo diving at a thousand meters (3,300 feet). Earle was formerly chief scientist of NOAA, and counts Time Magazine's first "Hero for the Planet" award in 1998, her status as National Geographic explorer-in-residence, and the 2009 TED Prize for her proposal to establish a global network of marine protected areas among the more than 100 national and international honors she has received. Dr. Earle is an inspiration to One World One Ocean and also serves as a principal advisor to the campaign.
ANNE EARHART
Director
Anne Earhart has worked for decades to defend coastlines and the marine environment throughout the world. As founder and president of the Marisla Foundation, she has become a mainstay of environmental advocacy along the Pacific Coast and throughout the Pacific Rim. The Marisla Foundation has supported a broad range of groups, on the local to international scale, that support ocean health — from sustainable fisheries and marine protected areas, to water quality and environmental health.
CHARLTON (CHAT) REYNDERS, III
Director
Chat Reynders co-founded the investment management firm Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management, ranked one of the top five wealth management companies in the U.S. by Advisor One. Chat's work in conservation began with film, creating companies to produce projects to promote role models in science and conservation. He also was Executive Director of the Whale Conservation Institute (now Ocean Alliance), a renowned independent research center. Chat has structured and funded public/private partnerships that have brought more than $150 million in revenues to cultural institutions. He co-produced the Oscar-nominated IMAX Theatre films Dolphins and Coral Reef Adventure. Chat has been featured or published in the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Business Week, and Forbes.
