The South Yuba River Citizens League’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival is thrilled to invite audience of all ages to join us for a special opening week screening of the new Dreamworks Animation film The Wild Robot on Thursday, October 3rd at 6:30pm at the Del Oro Theatre in Grass Valley. Proceeds for the screening support SYRCL’s efforts to protect and restore the Yuba River watershed and educate recreators about good river stewardship.
This film is a new adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot, and follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
The Wild Robot stars Academy Award® winner Lupita Nyong’o (Us, The Black Panther franchise) as robot Roz; Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us, The Mandalorian) as fox Fink; Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek, Best in Show) as opossum Pinktail; Oscar® nominee Bill Nighy (Living, Love Actually) as goose Longneck; Kit Connor (Heartstopper, Rocketman) as gosling Brightbill and Oscar® nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once, this summer’s The Fall Guy) as Vontra, a robot that will intersect with Roz’s life on the island.
The Wild Robot is a film that aligns with the missions of SYRCL and WSFF, as it explores what it means to be alive and connected to all living things. This family-friendly animated movie examines the bridge between technology and nature and helps audiences understand how precious our environment is and how intertwined we are with it.
You can purchase your tickets to this special SYRCL showing of The Wild Robot at the WSFF website: https://wildrobot.eventive.org/
About THE WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL: One of the nation’s largest environmental and adventure film festivals, Wild & Scenic Film Festival combines stellar filmmaking, cinematography, and first-rate storytelling to inform, inspire, and ignite solutions to restore the earth and human communities while creating a positive future for generations to come. Festival-goers are treated to a wide variety of award-winning films, including those about nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy, wildlife, and environmental justice. The Wild & Scenic Film Festival is hosted and produced by South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL). The flagship festival kicks off a nationwide tour bringing Wild & Scenic films to more than 30,000 people annually.