American Amazon
ROLE
Executive Producer
TYPE
Documentary Feature Film
Production team
Grizzly Creek Films, PBS Nature, Terra Mater Factual Studios.
Director: Eric Bendick
Producers: Mac Stone, Thomas Winston
Executive Producer: Ted Haddock
About the Film
This is a journey into the last secret wilderness in North America. An ancient bastion of life anchored in place by two-thousand-year-old cypress trees. A labyrinth of flooded forests and pulsing arteries. A place buzzing with new stories: from the mass migration of the world’s only social raptor, the swallow-tailed kite, to the dazzling spectacle of the ghost orchid.
A world where big mysteries still tread around every corner of the swamp: the cryptic behavior of the American black bear, the silent footsteps of the Florida panther. Here, in the wet and wild American South, is a place we call the AMERICAN AMAZON – a hotspot of biodiversity rivaling anywhere on Earth – and yet somehow its stories have never been told.
