Phil Streather

Principal Large Format (PLF) was founded in 1998 by present CEO Phil Streather.  PLF is a production company dedicated to developing and producing: 3D Giant Screen (IMAX) features, 3D Theatrical Documentary features and 3D HDTV.  In 1997/8 Phil produced Wildfire - feel the heat, in IMAX 2D, for Discovery Channel Pictures and in 1999 was the Producer on groundbreaking IMAX 2D drama, Legend of Loch Lomond, for Dunbartonshire Enterprise, Scotland.

Phil’s most recent IMAX film, Bugs! 3D, narrated by Judi Dench, has won many awards, including the prestigious Panda Award for Best Large Format Film at the Bristol Wildscreen Film Festival and was a Semi-Finalist in the Documentary Short Subject category of the 2004 Academy Awards® Competition. And, with Giant Screen producing partner Jonathan Barker of SK Films, PLF is the recipient of the largest grant made by the National Science Foundation to a Giant Screen film and outreach programme, of $3m, for their next Giant Screen 3D film, Flight of the Butterflies.

PLF also produced the 3D film elements for the successful touring version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Starlight Express. With Pablo Post Pinewood, PLF owns the UK’s first P+S Technik 3D mirror rig for HD capture and together they produced elements of the recent Sky 3D TV tests, particularly Gladiators.  In addition, in association with Centre Screen Productions of Manchester, PLF is currently producing a 4D attraction film for a major London landmark.

Phil is also a board member of the Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA), is a member of the GSCA’s Professional Development Committee and regularly chairs/produces/participates in panels on 3D at industry conferences such as GSCA, NAB, IBC, Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and Wildscreen Film Festival.