:: Howard W. Hall - Arts - 1993

Howard Hall is a wildlife filmmaker who specializes in marine wildlife films. He has directed many television films including a National Geographic Special and three episodes of the PBS series Nature. Working with his wife, producer Michele Hall, Howard also directed the award winning, five-hour series Secrets of the Ocean Realm. His television work has resulted in six Emmy Awards. Howard is perhaps best known for his underwater IMAX? films. In 1994 he directed the first ever underwater IMAX 3D feature, Into the Deep and in 1998 he directed the IMAX film, Island of the Sharks (produced by Michele Hall). Howard was Director of Underwater Cinematography for the Primesco Productions IMAX film Lost Worlds, the MacGillivray Freeman Academy Award Nominated film, The Living Sea. Howard was Underwater Cinematographer for MacGillivray Freeman’s Journey Into Amazing Caves and in 2002 was Underwater Sequence Director for MacGillivray Freeman’s IMAX feature Coral Reef Adventure, a film in which both he and Michele are featured on-camera. In 2005 Howard directed his third IMAX feature entitled Deep Sea 3D, a Warner Brothers/IMAX film produced by Michele Hall and Toni Myers. Both Into the Deep and Deep Sea 3D are among the top five highest grossing IMAX 3D films ever produced by IMAX. In 2007 Howard began production on his fourth IMAX film, Under the Sea 3D, which will be released in spring 2009 and is also being produced by Michele Hall and Toni Myers.