China: The Panda Adventure—Behind The Scenes EPK

We travelled to the far east for the Behind the Scenes of China: The Panda Adventure. We filmed in Shanghai and on the Yangtze river for this period historical film starring Maria Bello. We embedded with the film crew, traveling close to the Tibetan border to film at a Panda Sanctuary, where our entire crew was actually able to play with the Panda Bears! Lugging the enormous 70mm IMAX cameras though the rough terrain of inland China was an arduous process, and a fascinating one to document.

China: The Panda Adventure is set in 1936 China, where Ruth Harkness has come to settle the affairs of her husband, Bill, who died while observing the rare and unstudied panda bear.  Harkness was an American fashion designer and socialite, who traveled to China in 1936 and brought back the first live giant panda to the United States – not in a cage, or on a leash, but wrapped in her arms.