Leonard Maltin to Host International 3D Society Creative Arts Awards

The event will also serve as a 2nd anniversary celebration for 3net, a joint venture between Discovery, Sony and IMAX.

Leonard Maltin's opinions and perspectives are respected by movie fans everywhere. He is a familiar face on television, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the London Times, Premiere, Smithsonian, TV Guide, Esquire, the Village Voice, and Playboy. A past president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, he was selected by the Library of Congress to sit on the Board of Directors for the National Film Preservation Foundation.

The Awards Ceremony will utilize XPAND 3D Technology.

The International 3D Society and 3D@Home Consortium Member Companies include: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Pixar, IMAX, Intel, Microsoft, Dreamworks Animation (DWA), Samsung Electronics, ESPN, 3net, bSkyb, Panasonic, VEFXI, BluFocus, 3ality Technica, Vizio, Korea Telecomm, Dolby, Masterimage, RealD, Autodesk, and more than 50 others.

About the International 3D Society:

The mission of the International 3D Society & 3D@Home Consortium is to better serve the growing global theatrical, television, video game, and mobile 3D marketplace and professional community. With members in 20 countries and chapters in China, Japan, Korea, Europe, the UK and North America, the organization serves to spearhead the growth and expansion of the 3D industry across the entire ecosystem - from content conception and development, to consumer education and adoption.

About the 3D Century Award:

The 3D Century Award is the highest honor bestowed by the membership of the International 3D Society and a blue ribbon panel of stereoscopic experts. This honor recognizes the substantial achievements of either or all of a single person, group of individuals or technology that through their or its impact, have fueled the innovation, growth and development a substantial number of others' succeeding efforts.

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