Wildscreen Festival 2024

The biggest global gathering of natural world storytellers.

Hybrid Edition // 14-18 October

Wildscreen Festival is our world-leading international festival, held biennially, which celebrates and advances natural world storytelling. In it’s 42nd year, we provided a fully hybrid festival to all our delegates with headliners, masterclasses, screenings and more available in person in Bristol, UK and online via our exclusive Wildscreen Festival platform. 

Post-Festival Online Passes

Our Online Pass gives you post-festival access to our delegate app, allowing you to catch up and watch back live streams of dozens of sessions from this year’s festival including Headliners, Masterclasses, Decision Maker Clinics and more!

PLUS access our full film library of this year’s Official Selection and Panda Award Nominees. That’s over 60 natural history films and episodes at your fingertips!

Tickets start at just £25! 


Tickets

A variety of live and online passes are available to experience the Wildscreen Festival.

Full hybrid passes, including concessions, provide entry to live industry events in Bristol and the online event platform for 3 months.

Live events take place in Bristol, UK from Monday 14 – Friday 18 October.

Programme

From industry thought-leaders and celebrities, to award-winning filmmakers, photographers, NGOs and high-end kit and camera companies, Wildscreen Festival boasts an unmissable programme of events.

Check out the incredible line up we had for Wildscreen Festival 2024 below!

About the Festival

The Wildscreen Festival was first held in 1982, in Bristol, UK. It was founded by Sir Peter Scott and Christopher Parsons OBE, former Head of the BBC Natural History Unit. Today, as always, it brings together industry thought leaders, emerging talent and the most exciting, innovative voices in natural world storytelling. 

Official Selection

The Official Selection competition is an innovative platform for new talent and underrepresented voices in the natural world storytelling industry.

Check out our Official Selection 2024 announcement.

Panda Awards

The globally acclaimed Panda Awards, the ‘Green Oscars’ of the international wildlife film and TV industry, have sat at the heart of the Wildscreen Festival since 1982. They celebrate the very best in the natural world storytelling craft, and remain the highest honour in the industry.

Check out our 2024 winners below!

Kit Show

Meet the world’s leading providers of natural history kit to hear about their latest products and expert insights.

Wildscreen 2024 saw the return of our iconic kit show, dedicated to showcasing the companies and technology at the cutting edge of natural world storytelling.

Check out the full list of exhibitors.

Community Content Proposal

This year we are opening up our programming to our community.

This is an opportunity to propose to the Wildscreen team and Festival Advisory Board, a session addressing a topic or showcasing work that hasn’t yet been done, or could be done in a new and innovative way. 

There is one slot in the Festival programme available for community-driven content. Options include:

 
  • Panels: a diverse and candid discussion around a specific topic (4 speakers maximum incl. moderator). 1 hour long
  • Masterclasses: practical take-away session providing insight to a technique or craft (3 speakers maximum incl. moderator). 1 hour long
  • Alternative sessions: a space for outside of the box sessions. Examples of content could include: lightening talks or content based around a central theme; spoken word; an immersive audience experience. Alternative sessions should be 30 minutes long max. 
Deadline to apply: Thursday 2nd May
 

Volunteer

We’re looking for friendly, enthusiastic and committed individuals to join the Wildscreen team to help to deliver the event.
As a volunteer at Wildscreen Festival, you’ll gain hands-on film festival experience as well as the opportunity to attend incredible natural world screenings and hear from expert speakers.
Interested in being one of our incredible volunteers? There are both roles for our festival in-person in Bristol, and remote roles open to international applicants! ⁠
Deadline: 31 July 2024
 

Emerging Talent Bursaries

The Wildscreen Festival 2024 Bursary Scheme aims to nurture talent in the Wildlife Film and TV industry by providing fully and part  funded access to Wildscreen Festival 2024. 

Applications are now closed.

Global Hubs

Wildscreen introduced Festival Global Hubs in 2022 which offer the opportunity for storytellers and change makers based in global natural history content hotspots to be part of the Festival.

Headline Festival Sponsor, BBC Studios Natural History Unit, supported the Nairobi hub, Principal Sponsor Save our Seas Foundation supported the Cape Town edition, with our final hub based in Bangalore, India, supported by Felis Creations. 

 

WildPitch

Whether you are a producer, cinematographer, presenter or scientist, WildPitch is open to all with a story to tell about our natural world, its beauty and its fragility.

Nine individuals (or teams) each had 3 minutes to pitch their nature-centred film idea to a jury of leading commissioners and senior executives, in front of a live audience at Wildscreen Festival 2024.

The three most original and exciting projects won a cash prize of $8,000.

Press

Press personnel can apply for a press pass to attend Wildscreen Festival 2024. Please contact press@wildscreen.org with information about your role, publication, and intended coverage. Press pass accreditation is issued at the discretion of Wildscreen.
 
All press and media queries can be directed to press@wildscreen.org.
All press and media queries can be directed to press@wildscreen.org.

Festival Info

Got a question? Check out our FAQs section or watch our Festival information webinar.

World-leading International Festival

Wildscreen Festival is our world-leading international festival, held biennially, which celebrates and advances natural world storytelling. The festival focuses on four key elements:

Craft

Storytelling, Developing Technologies and Techniques

Research student radio tracking brown hyaenas - Martin Harvey

Industry

Networking, Collaborating, Trends, Sustainability, Future Audiences

Global Voices

Talent, EDI, Indigenous Communities

Huge nest in a tree created by sociable weaver birds - Namibia - Martin Harvey

Planetary Crisis

Biodiversity, Climate Change, Social Injustice

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