<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0TEHQ4_1GzqXGGK00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0TEHQ4_1GzqXGGK00" width="350" height="234" ><figcaption>Fog drifts over a forested river and its rocky shoals at sunrise in a photograph by Mac Stone, a producer of the “American Amazon” documentary. (Mac Stone)</figcaption></figure><p>Filmmakers Eric Bendick and Mac Stone spent four years following the rivers, swamps and springs of the Southeast for “American Amazon,” a documentary made for IMAX and giant screen theaters. </p><p>The film, narrated by Jon Batiste, opens to the public Saturday, Nov. 14, at Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta. Bendick and Stone told WABE why they want the South to celebrate the wild places in its own backyard. </p><h2>Where the name ‘American Amazon’ comes from</h2><p>Bendick, who wrote, directed and produced the film, traces its title to biologist E.O. Wilson. </p><p>“E.O. Wilson’s from Alabama. He is known as the father of biodiversity. And he began using the term. And I’ve actually first heard the term from him about 15 years ago,” Bendick said. </p><p>Since then, Bendick said, he and Stone have found people across the South comparing the region to the Amazon, from an orchid biologist in the Everglades to others in the swamps of Georgia and Louisiana. </p></div></body>

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Filmmakers Eric Bendick and Mac Stone spent four years following the rivers, swamps and springs of the Southeast for “American Amazon,” a documentary made for IMAX and giant screen theaters. The film, narrated by Jon Batiste, opens to the public Saturday, Nov. 14, at Fernbank Museum of Natural...

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Filmmakers Eric Bendick and Mac Stone spent four years following the rivers, swamps and springs of the Southeast for “American Amazon,” a documentary made 

‘American Amazon’ documentary spotlights the wild South

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