Award-winning Spanish filmmaker Jordi Llompart makes his large-format feature film debut with MYSTERY OF THE NILE, bringing to the production more than 20 years of experience as a director and producer for various cultural television programs and documentary films. He has produced and directed such documentary series as The Vanishing Past and Nomads of the Human Condition, which both received international acclaim, and other documentaries such as Asha, daughter of Ganges and Water Stories. Jordi started his professional career as a journalist, working in print media, radio and television. For more than 12 years he was director and anchorman of the most successful daily evening news program in Catalunya, Spain, and later produced and directed several weekly programs and documentary series for Televisió de Catalunya. He also wrote several press articles and books such as Human and Stars, a science book about the universe’s origins, species evolution and human challenges. He also directed a science book collection featuring topics on genetics, medicine, the environment, and the economy among other topics. One of his passions is traveling around the world, especially North Africa and the Middle East region. Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia are some of his favorite countries, and he has visited and filmed there many times.

Llompart currently serves as founder and director of Orbita Max, a production company devoted to developing documentary and semi-documentary films in several mediums, including the IMAX format.

Greg MacGillivray's filmmaking career spans more than 40 years. As a cinematographer, he has shot more 70mm film than anyone in cinema history -- more than two million feet. His company MacGillivray Freeman Films has been dedicated to the large screen motion picture format since the production of To Fly!, which he co-produced and directed with his partner, the late Jim Freeman, in 1976. Prior to this, MacGillivray worked in Hollywood, directing and photographing for Stanley Kubrick, and filming for the Academy Award®-nominated Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the Oscar-winning Sentinels of Silence. MacGillivray is known in the industry for his artistic and technical innovations for the giant film format. He has initiated the development of three cameras for the IMAX format -- the high-speed (slow-motion) camera, the industry's first lightweight camera, and the "all-weather" camera used during filming on Mount Everest.

MacGillivray and his company have received numerous international film awards, including an Academy Award nomination in 1995 for The Living Sea (Best Documentary Short Subject) and a second Academy Award nomination in the same category for Dolphins in 2000. In 1998, the company's dramatic film about climbing the world's tallest peak, Everest, became a worldwide blockbuster, eventually becoming the highest grossing large format film of all time. More recently, MacGillivray accepted the Bradford Washburn Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Museum of Science, Boston, for his contribution to science education. He joins an illustrious group of previous honorees that includes Jacques Cousteau, Walter Cronkite, Sylvia Earle, Jane Goodall and Carl Sagan.

Reed Smoot is one of the most sought-after large format cinematographers in the world, and has also served as director of photography on numerous feature films and television productions for over twenty-five years. He was a cameraman on the Academy Award-winning documentary The Great American Cowboy and director of photography for the Academy Award-nominated IMAX theatre film Special Effects as well as for the Academy Award-nominated The Rainbow War and Ballet Robotique. Throughout his career, Smoot has worked on more than twenty giant screen films including Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets, Mysteries of Egypt and the award-winning Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure and The Journey of Man. He is an active member of the Large Format Cinema Association, the American Society of Cinematographers and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Richard Bangs is founding partner and long-time president of Mountain Travel-Sobek, America’s oldest and largest adventure travel firm. An entrepreneur, world adventurer, international river explorer, Web pioneer and award-winning author, Bangs has led first descents of 35 rivers around the globe, including the Yangtze in China and the Zambezi in Southern Africa. Bangs has published more than 500 magazine articles, 14 books, a score of documentaries and several CD-ROMS, and has lectured at the Smithsonian, the National Geographic Society, and the Explorers Club. He was been the founder of numerous web-based initiatives and companies and is currently editor and executive producer of Great Escapes, a Microsoft Travel initiative. His recent books include Adventure Without End and The Lost River: A Memoir of Life, Death and the Transformation of Wild Water, which won the National Outdoor Book Award in the literature category. His upcoming book is MYSTERY OF THE NILE, co-authored with Pasquale Scaturro (Putnam, February 2005), chronicling the Blue Nile Expedition on which MYSTERY OF THE NILE is based.

Brad Ohlund has worked in the large format industry for 25 years and his films with MacGillivray Freeman include Dolphins, Adventures in Wild California, Journey Into Amazing Caves and Coral Reef Adventure. After attending Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California, Ohlund began his career with the classic film To Fly! Since then, his broad and varied assignments have included filming underwater reefs in the South Pacific and primitive tribes in New Guinea and Borneo. He has filmed from a plane through the eye of a hurricane and captured on IMAX film the fury of an approaching tornado. In 1996 Ohlund was a key member of the MacGillivray Freeman Films Everest expedition. During that three-month expedition, he served as the Photographic and Technical Consultant to the climbing camera team. He was also responsible for filming numerous scenes including the exciting and dramatic avalanche and blizzard sequences – and was directly involved in the rescue efforts during those tragic and historic days in May.