Wildscreen Festival 2022
The Future of Natural World Storytelling for a Better Planet
Wildscreen Festival 2022 celebrates, supports and platforms the global wildlife filmmaking community.
From industry leaders and celebrity talent, to award-winning filmmakers, photographers, NGOs and high end kit exhibitors, we had an unmissable programme for the 2022 festival.
“This year’s festival theme “The Future of Natural World Storytelling for a Better Planet”, speaks to our charity’s mission, to connect people with nature through natural world storytelling. Along with celebrating our 40th anniversary, this year’s festival will be future-focused. With the state of the world, it is absolutely vital that we look at the future of the natural world storytelling craft for the sake of the planet. This year’s festival programme will centre on 4 key elements: Craft, Industry, Global Voices, and Planetary Crisis, which will be interwoven throughout the festival content.” (Lucie Muir, Wildscreen CEO)
The programme for our hybrid festival was full of top industry headliners, lively and thought-provoking panel sessions, commissioner clinics, a huge range of masterclasses led by experts in their field, film screenings, world premieres, our Panda Award ceremony celebrating the best in natural world storytelling, networking opportunities and much more!
Headline Speakers
We had many outstanding headline speakers at this year's Wildscreen Festival.
Our speakers tell important stories that need to be told.
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Wildlife Filmmaker
Host of Epic Adventures with Bertie Gregory
National Geographic Explorer
“Odair ‘Dadá’ Borari” also known as, Chief Dadá
World renowned activist and leader of the Brazilian Borarí community
Co-Host of Outrage+Optimism
Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (2010-2016)
Film Director
Protozoa
Natural historian and Biologist
Musician
Executive Producer and Nat Geo Explorer at Large
Earthship
Drag Queen & Intersectional Environmentalist
Adventurer, natural history TV presenter, public speaker and author
EVP of Global and Factual
National Geographic
Speakers
Here are a selection of the phenomenal and inspiring speakers, which we had lined up at this year's Wildscreen Festival.
Head of Production
Felis Creations
Junior Production Manager
BBC Studios
National Geographic Explorer, iLCP Emerging Fellow, Wildlife filmmaker, Presenter, Photographer
Co-Chief Executive Officer & Director
Silverback Films
SVP Production & Development
Love Nature
Lecturer
UWE Bristol
Composer
Director / Producer
Cofounder
Marshmallow Laser Feast
Global General Manager
Love Nature
Wildlife DoP & Filmmaker
Natural History and Conservation Photographer
Filmmaker & TV Presenter
Managing Director
Scorpion TV
Marine Biologist
Conservation & Animal Welfare Photojournalist
Nat Geo Explorer, palaeoanthropologist, evolutionary biologist, & stand-up comic
Producer / Director
CEO/Game Director
Broken Rules interactive Media GmbH
Founder/Director
Pridelands Wildlife Film Festival
Scottish wildlife filmmaker and presenter
Broadcaster
Head of Specialist Factual
BBC Television
Co-Founder
Earthrise Studio
Commissioning Editor
Love Nature
SVP of Development & Production
National Geographic
Freelance Journalist, TV Researcher & Speaker
VP Original Content, Programming & Development
Curiosity
Executive Producer and Founder
Feast Collective
Company Director
Silverback Films
Film Director
Lyra Films
SVP
AMPLE Nature
Camera Technician & Freelance Camera Assistant
Wildlife Filmmaker
Wahba Filmes
Global Head of Acquisitions & Partnerships, Blue Ant International
Blue Ant Media
Science and Natural World Expert & Broadcaster
Wildlife Biologist and Presenter
Head of Acquisitions
Off the Fence
Founder/Creative Director
Untamed Planet
Professor – Documentary & Digital Cultures
UWE
Producer, Director and Podcaster
Natural Wanders ‘Plodcast’
Director
ScanLAB Projects
Founder & CEO
Gritty Talent
Composer
Impact Producer
Filmmaker
Creative Director
Mara Media
Producer
NHK
Executive Producer, Showrunner and Producer/Director
Channel Manager S3
SABC
Executive producer
Impala Pictures
Filmmaker
Sea Change Project
Director, Documentaries & Factual
Sky UK
SVP Non-Scripted
All3Media
Senior Producer
Wild Space
Self-Shooting PD and Cinematographer
Conservationist, Scientist, Natural History Presenter
Producer / Director
Founder
Creatorville
Associate Producer
National Geographic Society
Editor and DIT
Cunning Media
Director, Documentary Series
Netflix
EVP, International
Blue Ant Media
Director of Photography
Sophie Darlington Picture Company Ltd
Head of Interactive
BBC Studios
Marine Biologist, Broadcaster, Wildlife Expert
Producer, Director and writer
Photographer
Executive Producer, Natural History
Smithsonian Channel
Vice President, Impact Story Lab
National Geographic Society
Assistant Producer
BBC Studios, Natual History Unit
Global Hubs
The introduction of the Festival Global Hubs will 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, is supporting the Nairobi hub, Principal Sponsor Save our Seas Foundation is supporting the Cape Town edition, with our final hub based in Bangalore, India, being supported by Felis Creations.
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