Hello. — I am filmmaker V. Trent.

I am very deeply connected and passionate about filmmaking, cinema, and the IMAX film format. I had the honor of connecting and having an extensive conversation with director Stephen Low about this forgotten project, many details of which I will keep under wraps. However, I was told many stories about the production that inspired me as an artist and blew my mind—as it would for so many film and Titanic aficionados. So here is the breakdown.

"Titanica" is an IMAX 70mm film directed by Stephen Low and released in IMAX theaters in 1992. Since then, the original film has been lost. What currently exists of the true IMAX version is only an optical 35mm print-down of the original 95-minute director’s cut on VHS and LaserDisc, which are now obsolete. What is currently available on DVD is a downscaled, recut, shortened-for-television version; filled with additional reshoots, rescored, and re-narrated presented in abysmal quality. Ultimately, the cut that is presently available to the public is a compromised version that does not honor the vision of Mr. Low and the deep-sea crew. To this day, IMAX has not given Mr. Low and his company access to the original negatives or a print for a proper remaster.

An IMAX 70mm film print of "Titanica" still holds what would be the highest-quality—approximately 12-18K—footage ever captured of the Titanic wreck. As the years go on and Titanic continues to disintegrate underwater, this unbelievable footage preserves the ship largely intact, as it was originally discovered. As fandom and interest in the ill-fated ship grow at an astronomical rate every year, this is the definitive film that would make every Titanic enthusiast water at the mouth.

Additionally, the motion picture was not cut as a traditional documentary. Instead, the film is presented with a narrative approach—as if it were conceived as a drama. The film prominently features one of the last surviving passengers from the Titanic, Eva Hart. Low personally told me that she herself experienced the original IMAX 70mm presentation in IMAX theaters, and “she was enchanted with it.”.

So I implore IMAX to reach out to the Stephen Low Company and give us the lost—but true—experience of the greatest shipwreck in the world, presented in the best film format in existence with an IMAX 70mm re-release and a brand new remastered 4K UHD Blu-ray Disc.

Thank you very for signing and welcome aboard.