2020 Awards
Stories about the natural world have never been more important - we are the first generation to understand humanity’s impact on nature and the last to be able to protect and restore it. Wildscreen believes in the power of visual storytelling to spark positive and restorative action for our natural world, globally. Bold, authentic and varied stories that speak to different audiences with urgency and hope have never been so necessary.
The inaugural Official Selection call for entries was open to anyone with a story about nature to share - and the submissions did not disappoint!
We received hundreds of submissions in 2020 and worked with a team of pre-selectors and programmers to curate a screening programme that features original and creative stories about the natural world. The natural world is beautifully diverse and this strength will be reflected through the voices heard, tools used and stories shared within the Wildscreen Official Selection.
Our Audience Prize 2020 goes to...
Lost Kings of Bioko
Oliver Goetzl & Justin Jay
Germany
Our Programmer Prize 2020 goes to...
Cries of our Ancestors
Rebecca Kormos & Kalyanee Mam
United States
Official Selection Films 2020
We are very proud to announce the first ever Wildscreen Official Selection films, they are...
A Voice Above Nature
Annie Moir
United Kingdom
Bayandalai - Lord of the Taiga
Aner Etxebarria Moral, Pablo Vidal Santos
Spain
Clorofilia
Andrés Sehinkman, Jonathan Barg and Leandro Vital - Planta Alta TV
Argentina
Cries of Our Ancestors
Rebecca Kormos, Kalyanee Mam
United States
Earth From Space: Ep 1 A New Perspective
Barny Revill
United Kingdom
EarthSongs
Producer/Director: Mitch Turnbull
Creative Technologists and Designers: Ollie Lindsey, Adam Child, Olie Kay, Robin North, Chris Linington
Sound Design: Mitch Turnbull, Luke Reed, Olga M. Reed
Commissioner: South West Creative Technology Network
United Kingdom
Ecosphere
Director: Joseph Purdam
Co-Producers: Angie Davis, Daniel Huertas
Australia
Ecuador’s Hidden Treasure
Kata Karáth, Ana Naomi de Sousa
United Kingdom, Ecuador
Eye of the Pangolin
Bruce Young
South Africa
Flying Elephants - A Mother's Hope
Prakash Matada
India
Guardians of Ua Huka
Starring: Tuhuna Sulprice
Director: Ben Cherry
Producers: Ben Cherry, Liv Grant
Camera Operator: Ben Cherry
Drone Operator: Annika Schlemm
Editor: Ben Cherry
Sound Design: Audio Uproar, Ben Wood, Matt Coster
Production Company: Wild Cherry Media
United Kingdom
Horse Tamer
Hamid Sardar
France
Kokoly
Blue Ventures, Garth Cripps, Paul Antion
United Kingdom, Madagascar
Last Wild Places: Gorongosa
Director: Sarah Joseph
Executive Producer: Vanessa Serrao
United States, Mozambique
MY 25: The Ocean Between Us
Inka Cresswell
United Kingdom
Ophir
Alexandre Berman, Olivier Pollet
France, United Kingdom
Our Gorongosa
James Byrne
Mozambique
Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal
Victoria Bromley
United Kingdom
Pushed up the Mountain
Julia Haslett
United States
Rewilding
Vincent Perazio
France
Serengeti Nature’s Living Laboratory
Day's Edge Productions for HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
United States
Sharing the Land
Ofelia de Pablo, Javier Zurita
Spain
She Walks with Apes
Caitlin Starowicz, Mark Starowicz
Canada
Sockeye Salmon. Red fish
Dmitriy Shpilenok, Vladislav Grishin
Russian Federation
STROOP - journey into the rhino horn war
Director: Susan Scott
Producers: Bonné de Bod, Susan Scott
South Africa
That's Wild
Michiel Thomas
Belgium, United States
The Condor & the Eagle
Sophie Guerra, Clement Guerra
United States, Germany, France
The Deep Med
Gil Kebaïli
France
The Disappeared
Kim Stewart
United Kingdom
The Elephant Queen
Victoria Stone & Mark Deeble
Kenya
The Octopus in My House
Anna Fitch & David Allen
United Kingdom
This Land
Chelsea Jolly, Whit Hassett
United States
Voices of the Pacific Flyway
Eric Liner
United States
Wild & Wool
Phillip Baribeau
United States
Zimbrul
Emmanuel Rondeau
France
The Wildscreen Official Selection will open for brand new submissions in January 2022 via Film Freeway.