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What’s Your Favorite Film About Nature And The Environment?

The lush natural world of Pandora is on full display in this still from the 2009 film 'Avatar.'
The lush natural world of Pandora is on full display in this still from the 2009 film 'Avatar.'
The lush natural world of Pandora is on full display in this still from the 2009 film 'Avatar.'
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The lush natural world of Pandora is on full display in this still from the 2009 film 'Avatar.'

From Erin Brokovich's fight for environmental justice to the lush natural world in James Cameron’s “Avatar,” nature and the environment often play a starring role in film.

For the next edition of “Movies On The Radio,” we want to know which film about nature stuck with you the most? Is it Reese Witherspoon’s tough journey in “Wild” or maybe the classic animated film “FernGully: The Last Rainforest?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn2-GSqPyl0

Film experts Marsha Gordon and Laura Boyes will join host Frank Stasio to talk about listener’s favorites. Gordon is a film professor at North Carolina State University. Boyes is the film curator at the North Carolina Museum of Art and the curator of the MovieDiva series at the Carolina Theater.

Send your pick to sot@wunc.org or tweet at us with #SOTmovie for a chance to be on the show.   

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
Laura Pellicer is a producer with The State of Things (hyperlink), a show that explores North Carolina through conversation. Laura was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, a city she considers arrestingly beautiful, if not a little dysfunctional. She worked as a researcher for CBC Montreal and also contributed to their programming as an investigative journalist, social media reporter, and special projects planner. Her work has been nominated for two Canadian RTDNA Awards. Laura loves looking into how cities work, pursuing stories about indigenous rights, and finding fresh voices to share with listeners. Laura is enamored with her new home in North Carolina—notably the lush forests, and the waves where she plans on moonlighting as a mediocre surfer.