Source: Herald Sun
JAMES Cameron will return to Brazil this year to make a 3D film about indigenous people of the Amazon who oppose construction of a huge dam."I want to return to meet some of the leaders of the Xikrin-Kayapo tribe who invited me," the Canadian director said in an interview published in the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.
"I want to take a 3D camera to film how they live, their culture," he said.
The filmmaker already visited the Amazon twice in a show of support for the indigenous tribe and to film a short piece on their resistance to the damming project on the Xingu River, which will be included on a new Avatar DVD to be released before Christmas.
Speaking of the fight against the dam construction, Cameron said he "did a film on the same topic," referring to Avatar, adding that when he was asked to help "the Brazilian Indians, who were desperate, I could not turn away."
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gave the green light last week for the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant on the Xingu River, a southeastern tributary to the mighty Amazon stretching over 1609 kilometres.
Opponents of the dam project say it is not economically viable and would cause the displacement of 16,000 people because it would create a flood zone of about 500square km along the banks of the Xingu.
The government said no indigenous land would be threatened and that it has spent millions on reducing the social and environmental impact of the dam.