
Kieth Merrill
Director · b. 1940 · Farmington, Utah, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kieth W. Merrill (born May 22, 1940) is an American filmmaker who has worked as a writer, director, and producer in the film industry since 1967. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Directors Guild of America, and received an Academy Award for The Great American Cowboy (1973) and a nomination for Amazon (1997). He is a founding partner of Odyssey, which pioneered IMAX-format film technology. He is also a founding member of Audience Alliance Motion Picture Studios (AAMPS), a production company committed to motion pictures that embrace virtues and values. AAMPS is a growing broad based membership organization giving "card carrying members" the opportunity to weigh-in on scripts and go behind the scenes of AAMPS motion pictures. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kieth Merrill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie4.4DramaComedyAn unqualified teacher finds himself saddled with coaching duties after a small group of high school seniors form a wrestling team in a last ditch effort to end a 9-year losing streak against a rival school.
Take Down
1979 · 5 votes
- Movie9.0
Behind-the-scenes documentary of the IMAX motion picture.
The Making of 'Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets'
1999 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DocumentaryThe amazing story of how the Berkeley police department, the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, an Academy Award winner and Mr. Spock from TV’s Star Trek are all connected by “Sudden Birth”, one of the most unintentionally hilarious and disturbing educational films ever created.