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
James Cameron filmography debut in 1998 playing himself in the sitcom "Mad About You". Two years later he executive produced the science fiction television series "Dark Angel" (2000) starring Jessica Alba. In 2005, he appeared in two documentaries about the sinking of the RMS Titanic: "Last Mysteries of the Titanic", and "Tony Robinson's Titanic Adventure". He also made appearances as himself on the comedy-drama television series "Entourage" that same year. Cameron followed this by executive producing two biblical documentaries, "The Exodus Decoded" (2006) and "Lost Tomb of Jesus" (2007). He executive produced and appeared in a third Titanic related documentary, "Titanic: Final Word