This week marks a first on Documentarychannel.com. This week’s Featured Doc Maker Greg MacGillivray is the first IMAX documentarian that we’ve profiled as of yet, and though I can assure you that his current work is completely enthralling, it was a real treat for me while researching Greg’s work to find that he had helped create some of the most memorable moments in my all-time favorite films. Remember that long creepy drive Jack Nicholson takes up to the Overlook Hotel at the beginning of The Shining? That was none other than Greg MacGillivray up in the helicopter filming away. How about that really cool surf sequence in John Milius’ Vietnam era surf picture “Big Wednesday?” MacGillivray again. Color me impressed. And if that wasn’t enough, the guy quite literally helped invent the cameras he would need to shoot in the below-freezing conditions on Mount Everest, where he filmed the most popular IMAX movie of all time, “Everest.” Greg MacGillivray is a one-man evolutionary jump forward for the world of documentary cinema, and who knows what wonders the rest of his career will hold for adventurers and lovers of breathtaking scenery the world over. And for those of us that aspire to one day make a few docs of our own, MacGillivray has set the bar at a humbling height indeed. Oh well, dare to dream folks—it’s worked for Greg MacGillivray thus far.