Are you still in awe of what James Cameron did with Avatar? You still wondering how Cameron could pull off something so visually wondrous when other SFX companies don’t even come close to matching it? Are you an amateur filmmaker hoping to learn from the example of James Cameron (in a filmmaking sense, at least)?

No normal person will not want to be between two elephants, which are locked in battle. But about the same feeling you experience when you look one of the episodes Africa: The Kingdom of elephants. How it all began? And started with the fact that once the film crew arrived in Kenya in the Amboseli National Park ...



This picture was shot six months, but in the result is a short 40 minute story about the life of the elephant herd as they marched in defiance of oppressive thirst and then through an avalanche of rain and then again in the valleys of life of bliss reigned. The visible and audible images of how life goes for elephants all with a whisper breaks to the big screen. We see a little baby elephant makes its first steps under the watchful eye (and trunk) of his mother like an old elephant throw themselves into battle, protecting the herd, and the young elephants fight in tournaments to win favor with the ladies ... We are seeing weaker elephants during prolonged droughts, as they rejoice in the long awaited rain, as the breaking of trees, the males in search of food.

In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin s three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.

A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter s family in Hong Kong, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit men working for the mafia.

Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Fresh off of a successful production of Death of a Salesman, he has traded in the suburban blue hairs and regional theater of Schenectady for the cultured audiences and bright footlights of Broadway. Armed with a MacArthur grant and determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can put his whole self, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan s theater district. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden s own life veers wildly off the tracks. The shadow of his ex wife Adele, a celebrated painter who left him years ago for Germany s art scene, sneers at him from every corner.



Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele s friend, Maria. He s helplessly driving his marriage to actress Claire into the ground. Sammy Barnathan, the actor Caden has hired to play himself within the play, is a bit too perfect for the part, and is making it difficult for Caden to revive his relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel. Meanwhile, his therapist, Madeline Gravis, is better at plugging her best seller than she is at counseling him. His is second daughter, Ariel, is disabled. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. As the years rapidly pass, Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. Populating the cast and crew with doppelgangers, he steadily blurs the line between the world of the play and that of his own deteriorating reality. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems, a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs.