We are so pleased to have been included as a 2021 Bristol Life Award Finalist for Wildscreen Festival! It’s an honour for the success of Wildscreen Festival 2020 to be recognised in this years Event category. Wildscreen Festival 2020 was the first virtual Festival in the charity’s 40-year history and was completely reimagined in just …
On Earth Day, 22nd April 2021, Georgia and Gaby headed over to Eastville Park to meet with the rangers and volunteer to pick up litter across the woodland area. From 22-29 April, the Wildscreen team are getting out and about with different challenges to help raise funds for our Emerging Talent scheme. From 10 mile …
Following the incredible success of the Wildscreen Festival 2020 reaching brand new audiences across the world and celebrating the very best storytelling about our natural world, Wildscreen are proud to announce the winners of the Audience Prize and Programmer Prize. Following the closure of the viewing platform on 30th December, the Wildscreen team calculated the …
The first ever fully virtual Wildscreen Festival which ran from 19-23 October, has been hailed as a great success by delegates, speakers and organisers as it was revealed that a record number of people took part in the 20th anniversary of the biennial event. More than 1800 delegates registered on the Festival platform, from over …
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Last night’s Panda Awards was an exceptional evening celebrating the best of wildlife film making and photography talent in the world. The recipient of the Golden Panda award, the most coveted international prize in the international wildlife film and TV genre, was My Octopus Teacher, produced by Sea Change Project and Off the Fence; A …
Wildscreen Festival 2020 is hugely excited to announce that Sir David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg will be brought together in conversation from their respective homes in the UK and Sweden. They are separated by 77 years in age but are united by a shared passion to protect the natural world. They’ll discuss the most pressing …
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Wildscreen Festival 2020 is thrilled to announce that ground-breaking filmmaker and explorer James Cameron will be appearing at this year’s event in conversation with BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit producer Orla Doherty. The acclaimed writer/director/producer of blockbuster hits such as Avatar, Titanic and The Abyss, Cameron is currently executive producing two National Geographic series – …
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Wildscreen Festival 2020 is thrilled to announce that pioneering Ethologist, Founder of The Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, Dr. Jane Goodall, will be appearing at this year’s event in conversation with conservation photographer Tom Mangelsen and wildlife filmmaker Sandesh Kadur. At the world’s leading international nature film festival’s biannual event from 19th-23rd …
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Wildscreen festival 2020 is pleased to announce its first keynote: Jeremy Darroch, Sky’s Group Chief Executive will be in conversation with TV presenter, adventurer and wildlife expert Steve Backshall. Under Jeremy’s leadership Sky has saved over a billion trees in the Amazon through its Rainforest Rescue Campaign, partnered with WWF to fight for healthy oceans, …
Wildscreen, the not-for-profit behind the world’s biggest festival of natural history storytelling, today revealed the line-up for its inaugural Official Selection Programme. The charity introduced the Official Selection in 2020 to discover and honour bold, authentic and diverse stories that speak to different audiences with urgency about the natural world. The programme was established to …
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