Avatar (2009 film) Avatar (2009 film) Avatar, marketed as James Cameron's Avatar, is a 2009 American epic science fiction film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron, and stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the mineral unobtanium, a room-temperature superconductor. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi – a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The film's
Precious Fathers 2009, and was streamed online. In June the album appeared on !earshot's community and campus radio Top 50 Chart. That year the band performed locally in Vancouver. Precious Fathers Precious Fathers is a Canadian instrumental post-rock shoegazer ensemble,/ based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its members are linked to other projects, including Destroyer, Loscil, Sparrow and The Battles. Their music combines pulsating rhythms with multiple guitar effects and dynamic volume shifts. Guitarists Tim Loewen and Jaret Penner, along with drummer Josh Lindstrom and Paul Goertzen, founded Precious Fathersm and in 2005 released their self-titled first album through the White Whale label.