NIAGARA TAKES FLIGHT

IMMERSIVE | PRESHOW WRITING | DIRECTION + MEDIA

SYNOPSIS

A 30 minute pulsed-experience through the history of Niagara Falls, anticipating ½-million visitors annually. Niagara Takes Flight is a new permanent attraction housed in the historical Table Rock House, at the precipice of Niagara Falls, telling stories of geological, Indigenous, historical, and spiritual origin of the world's most infamous waterfall.

YEAR OF COMPLETION

2025

CLIENT

Niagara Parks Commission, Brogent Technologies

ROLE

PreShow Director + Producer - Rio Mitchell
PreShow Project Manager - Sabryna Tes
PreShow DOP - Danny Cox
Animation Producer + Designer - Roxann Vaudry-Read

DELIVERABLES

22 minute PreShow across 5 unique immersive spaces

COLLABORATORS

Rick Rothschild (Creative Director), Brogent Technologies, FORREC, BranchAV, Nightlight Labs, EDFilms,
6Degrees Music + Sound, Yessian, artist George Scribner, an assembled Indigenous Working Group of knowledge-keepers who collaborated in script-writing, aesthetic direction, musical direction, and overall narrative guidance.

Visit the attraction today, at the edge of Niagara Falls (Ontario, Canada)

WATCH MORE

Cascading waterfall of LED panels hung from ceiling, crowd of peple watching immersive preshow of Niagara Takes Flight

Curved LED panels displaying animated content of skywoman, muskrat, turtle and eagle, sharing the Haudenosaunee creation story, as people walk around the Ancestors preshow space at Niagra Takes Flight

Group of people walking through a lit up doorway to the elevator to embark on Niagara Takes Flight

Animated skywoman in purple dress, falling from the sky as two Canadian geese catch her and the rest of the bird fly around them in circles, from the Ancestors Preshow space at Niagara Takes Flight

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Niagara Takes Flight Entrance Marquee with waterfall behind the bridge a top rock

Indigenous musicians and singers performing in a recording studio for the music of the Niagara Takes Flight Preshow

Group of people looking up at the suspended LED panels that create a waterfall effect in the Waterfall Preshow space at Niagara Takes Flight