Kristin's Recent Projects
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Publishing
Rockin' Dog Studio is also Kristin's home office. From here she writes or publishes her own projects—or assists others in books, magazines, or films. Rocndog Books publishes her books, but sometimes cool projects with her name on them are rocking' it elsewhere in the world. Maybe you'd like to check them out.
IMAX films: For more than 20 years, Kristin has been working in various capacities with MacGillivray Freeman Films (MFF), the world's largest producer of giant-screen films. These are usually 40-minute movies that screen in museums and science centers, but sometimes MFF creates television series too.
A wide release of Rex Appeal2: This second edition of the real story of Sue and Stan—the most famous T. rex specimens ever—offers updated and expanded content (100 additional pages!) since the first edition more than 20 years ago. Our first printing is already available through Black Hills Institute—exclusively for its museum and science center clients—but we're gearing up for a wide distribution by rocndog Books.
Superhuman Body
MacGillivray Freeman Films
Written by Kristin Donnan & Janna Emmel
An IMAX film that explores the inner workings of the human body and the incredible breakthroughs in science that are allowing us to live longer, healthier lives. Produced by the world's largest creator of giant-screen films. Released in IMAX theaters around the world in Spring 2024.
Cities of the Future
MacGillivray Freeman Films
Written by Kristin Donnan & Janna Emmel
Imagine stepping 50 years into the future and finding smart cities designed to be totally sustainable. Renewable energy, space-based solar power, global recycling, maglev trains using little or no energy, and electric flying vehicles! This isn’t science fiction. Produced in an exciting collaboration between MacGillivray Freeman Films and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Released Spring 2024.
Rex Appeal²
Peter Larson & Kristin Donnan
The second edition of this important book—profiling the story of Sue, the T. rex who made worldwide headlines. This expanded edition updates the last 25 years' worth of science—and adds the story of Stan. This first printing is currently being distributed exclusively to museums and science centers. It will be available for broad distribution in 2026.
Rex Appeal 2 was the Gold-medal winner in Science, IPPY Awards 2024.
Dinosaur 13
Director: Todd Douglas Miller
Based on Rex Appeal
This award-winning documentary, by Todd Douglas Miller of Statement Pictures, is about the world's most famous T. rex and the paleontologist who loved her. Sue was seized by the FBI in 1992, an act that stimulated two legal battles and brought Peter Larson to international fame.
The film, which premiered at Sundance in 2014, is based on the first edition of Rex Appeal, the book co-authored by Peter Larson and Kristin Donnan. Dinosaur 13 was released theatrically and on-demand in August 2014, aired on CNN in November 2014, and won the 2014 Emmy® award for Outstanding Science & Technology Programming. Both authors appeared on screen and supported the production.
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