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A group of independent filmmakers attempt to create feature-length films under extreme limitations. With little money, limited time, and no safety net, each filmmaker is forced to confront the realities of their own process; balancing ambition, doubt, and the constant pressure to keep moving forward. As production unfolds, the film captures the unpredictable nature of creation, revealing how ideas evolve, collapse, and rebuild on the path to completion.
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Capturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It uses footage from the film's development, as well as stock footage from as far back as the production of Titanic in 1995. Also included are numerous interviews with cast, artists, and other crew members. The documentary was released as a bonus feature on the extended collector's edition of Avatar.

In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for the big screen. After investing two years, and millions of dollars, the gigantic project ended in failure; but the artists Jodorowsky brought together to carry it out continued to work together, and ended up laying the foundations for modern science fiction cinema.