Making the Film: About Inland Sea Productions

Aimee Guignon Larrabee and John Altman are co-filmmakers for Inland Sea Productions. The company’s recent honors and awards include:

• Emmy Award Nominees, Best Writing for a Documentary.
• Best Made for Public Television Program, Great Plains Film Festival.
• In 2001, the Independent Film Channel presented Larrabee and Altman with a special award: In Recognition for Creativity and Dedication to Independent Filmmaking

Completed Works:

Last Stand of the Tallgrass Prairie – Feature documentary film produced for Public Broadcasting Service’s Natural History Division. National broadcast in primetime through National Programming Service of PBS began in April, 2001. Hosted by Lyle Lovett, narrated by Michael Murphy. Companion artbook written by Larrabee and Altman for Barnes and Noble as a companion to the film and a traveling exhibit mounted by the Smithsonian Institution. Grants from National Science Foundation, ADM Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Environmental Protection Agency, Smithsonian Institution, Koch Industries, Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation, Philecology Trust, Sosland Foundation, W.T. Kemper Foundation, Butler Manufacturing. America’s most endangered ecosystem is finally receiving the international scientific attention needed for its preservation and that of grasslands worldwide.

Celebrate Detroit! – An IMAX Signature Film celebrating the 300 th anniversary of the Motor City, playing ten times daily at the Henry Ford Museum Sponsored by Ford Motor Company, Blue Cross, Lear, Marriott, Visteon. Featuring the citizens and sights of Detroit on the giant IMAX screen.

Kansas City Presents – An IMAX Signature Film celebrating life in Kansas City, with 100+ scenes in seven minutes, set to a Rossini overture! Produced for the Kansas City Zoological Park and sponsored by Ford Motor Company, Sprint, UMB Bank, Hoechst-Marion-Roussel, Utilicorp United, Convention and Visitors Association and Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City.

Visitor center environmental films and interactive CD-ROM programs for the Kansas City Zoological Gardens, fundraising films for Children’s Mercy Hospital, Christmas in October, Children’s Therapeutic Learning Center.

120 Wooster Street: The Art of Frederic James Brown – Feature documentary that not only chronicles the 30+ year career of one of America’s most original and compelling visual artists, it recaptures the magic that was the SoHo district of New York in the 70s. Produced for Kemper Museum of Contemporary Arts and sponsored by William T. Kemper Charitable Trust. Broadcast premiere: WNET-TV in conjunction with the national tour of Brown’s Retrospective exhibit organized by the Kemper and curated by the Studio Museum of Harlem.

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