Prince Charles is in advanced negotiations with Hollywood film producers to make a movie on man's relationship with nature in which Indian environmental activist Vandana Shiva may figure.
LONDON: Prince Charles is in advanced negotiations with Hollywood film producers to make a movie on man's relationship with nature in which Indian environmental activist Vandana Shiva may figure.
A part of the documentary will be filmed in India. It has been planned on the line's of former US Vice President Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth', The Sunday Times reported today.
Insiders at Clarence House, Charles official residence, insist the idea for the film, which has a working title of The Harmony Project in palace circles, came from him.
The report said Charles is busy deciding on the people to be interviewed. They include Shiva (54). Charles contacted her this summer to ask if she would like to appear in his film and later sent her an e-mail in which he confirmed Hollywood film producer Stuart Sender's involvement in the project.
The prince feels the film will should be ready on time for his 60th birthday in November next year.
Some of his closest advisers however, are worried that the film might send a wrong message. One palace insider said: "His advisers are worried that it will accentuate the quirky side of him. You could argue that it displays a certain self-indulgence."
But according to a source close to Charles, "He regards himself as the founding father of the harmony principle and the need for self-growth and he is grateful for the opportunity that these Hollywood producers are giving him to share his views with a wider audience."
Clarence House said: "We are in discussion on various documentary projects. We are seriously considering three projects, one of which is the US-based documentary."
The documentary will explore Charles's concern that there is a worrying imbalance in man's relationship with nature.
Like Gore's film, which became a box office hit, it will warn that "we are fast running out of time."
Charles is in discussions with Stuart Sender, a director and producer whose film Prisoner of Paradise was nominated for an Oscar in 2003. It told the story of a Jewish cabaret star who was forced to make propaganda films for the Nazis before being sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Sender and his wife Julia Bergman, one of the producers of the 1997 film GI Jane starring Demi Moore, run Balcony Films, which claims to make "mainstream popular multi-platform media that inspires people to take action". They were in London last week to look at locations and meet the prince.
Charles wants to find a platform to preach his own message that, in the search for technological advancement, mankind has lost touch with the "wisdom of the past".
He is likely to be filmed at his country home of Highgrove, Gloucestershire, where he enjoys watching bees.
Initial ideas for the script, based on a speech Charles gave in Liverpool earlier this year, have him praising bees for the way they work together to produce a "harmonic whole".
The backdrop is likely to switch to a high street as the prince compares the harmony of the beehive with what he sees as a convenience-based, throw-away consumerist society.
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