Camerons 3D documentary about the Xingu?

[Redpaintednavi]

Two years ago I read that James Cameron was planning to do a documentary, shot in 3D, about the native peoples at the Xingu river and their fight against the Belo Monte Dam and other kinds of exploitation and destruction.

Anyone who has any news about the film project? I have not heard about it for some while now. Such a film should be very interesting and important. And with the 3D technique it would also be stunning.

Here is an article:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/avatar-director-plans-return-to-amazon-for-3d-film/story-e6frf96f-1225914689898

[Kamean]

Interesting

Anyone who has any news about the film project?

No...

[Tsmuktengan]

Vaporfilm? Communication counting on the people forgetting about? This works in politics... but here this would prove his action for the Xingu river was not standing on anything and was just a sterile communication campaign for his own benefit. Cameron is very good when it comes to communication but this action is particularly dishonest.

I don't think this documentary will ever exist. A 3D documentary about the Xingu can only be vapor because 1. a 3D documentary, unless you are in a coral reef under water, is useless, and 2. Cameron is a director for big production films, not interested in documentaries that are much less fun. The only 3D documentary he ever created is this Youtube video that uses Google Maps.

I still like Avatar, but Cameron is still one among many other directors that likes to make money and communicates more than what he really does. He seems to be surfing on hype stuff.

I hope to be wrong though. But until I have proof of the opposite...

[Redpaintednavi]

Hope Cameron is really committed to this cause (saving the Xingu and communicating the messages of the Xingu peoples) and that he will find time to realize the film project.

And I think that documentaries in 3D actually have a given place, since in 3D you can convey a realism and closeness, an understanding of spatial relations that can be hard to visualize in plain 2D. Examples of 3D documentaries that have become rather famous is Wim Wenders documentary about dance, Pina, and ofcourse Werner Herzogs fascinating film Cave of Forgotten Dreams about the 32 000 year old cave paintings in the french Chauvet cave . Without 3D it would be hard to fully appreciate the way the prehistoric painters used natural curves in the cave walls and how they placed the paintings in relation to each other.