Los Angeles Premiere Set for May 27 at the California Science Center IMAX Theater

LOS ANGELES, April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — For thousands of years, culture, faith and innovation have flourished alongside each other in the desert wonderland of the Arabian Peninsula. Now, MacGillivray Freeman Films’ ARABIA 3D offers filmgoers a deeper look at a fascinating culture told through powerful storytelling that bridges cultures and promotes understanding. Narrated by Academy Award®-winning actress Helen Mirren, ARABIA 3D will begin a seven-month engagement at the California Science Center IMAX Theater, opening on May 27, 2011.

As the first major production filmed entirely in Saudi Arabia, the film explores the extraordinary 2,000-year history of Arabia through the eyes of three contemporary citizens: Hamzah Jamjoom is a film student at Chicago‘s DePaul University who returns home to Saudi Arabia to make a movie about his country; Nimah Nawwab is a poet, writer and photographer who offers the female perspective on Arabia; and Dr. Daifallah Al-Talhi is a leading Arabian archeologist who is excavating the lost Nabataean city of Madain Saleh. All three are deeply invested in both their homeland’s luminous past and rapidly evolving future.

“No other medium can convey the culture and atmosphere of another land as well as a 3D IMAX film,” says the film’s producer/director Greg MacGillivray, who has twice been nominated for an Academy Award. “We spent months shooting in places where no cameras of any kind have ever been so that we could better understand this important

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