Living Seas offered as free download for Earth Day

By Susanne Ault -- Video Business, 4/21/2008

APRIL 21 | As an Earth Day gift, Image Entertainment is offering free downloads and/or streams of IMAX documentary The Living Sea this week.

Starting today, the nature doc narrated by Meryl Streep can be accessed at Web site MSN Green and through a number of digital services, including, Movielink, CinemaNow, Amazon Unbox, BitTorrent and Vudu.

Viewers who watch The Living Sea digitally also will see trailers of other work by Living Sea filmmaker Greg MacGillivray, including Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D, which just opened in IMAX theaters nationwide.

The Living Sea, which originally bowed on IMAX in 1995, follows such ocean life as humpback whales, jellyfish and giant clams.

Image subsidiary Egami Media is overseeing The Living Sea free event.

“This will expose thousands of consumers to the fast arriving future of digital video delivery where plastic discs and packaging is no longer necessary,” said Mitch Mallon, VP of digital sales at Egami. “I can’t think of a better way to celebrate Earth Day than to make this film available to everyone in the world and to do so in such an environmentally friendly way.”

MacGillivray added, “We are honored to offer The Living Sea as our gift to the world on Earth Day. We all have a stake in the future of our oceans. My hope is that millions of people will participate in this online event and come away inspired with a renewed love and appreciation for all life under the sea and with a determination to protect it.”