In February and March, 2025, Wildscreen is taking some of their greatest hits of Wildscreen Festival on the road to share with new communities across the South West and beyond.
What a year! 2024 brought with it a whole host of inspiring new projects, events, partnerships and more to Wildscreen’s door, plus the return of some fan favourites. Join us as we look back on some of our top highlights…
12 finalists of Wildscreen ARK’s 2024 Youth Film and Photography Competition were celebrated at a special event, hosted by Steve Backshall, during last month’s Wildscreen Festival 2024.
1. Tell us a bit about your role!
I’m the media intern for Wildscreen ARK. I manage social media for the ARK project from designing cool graphics, writing engaging copies, making cute animal posts to researching about different species for every week that you see on our Instagram.
2. What’s your background?
My life has been a little zig-zag but to cut short – I have a background in business administration but my burning desire to work in the environment and climate change field has influenced my choice of study and work in the last few years.
I’ve worked with several international organizations before working at Wildscreen, including UN Environment Programme, WWF, Purpose, Clean Air Asia and Internews’ Earth Journalism Network – being the latest one. I’ve worked for almost 5+ years in India with these environmental organizations primarily managing everything between projects, workshops and communications.
My passion has brought me to the UK and right now I’m back to student life for a while until I graduate as MSc. in Science Communication.
3. What motivates you?
Power of storytelling and taking every day small steps to learn something new.
4. If you could change one thing about the natural history industry, what would it be?
Be more inclusive. Make more regional natural history films around the world – would be good if these are made in local languages too.
5. What are your career goals?
Be able to create an engaging and positive children storybook about climate change – one day!
6. Favourite moment working at Wildscreen?
It’s just been 7 weeks since I joined Wildscreen. No favourite moment as of yet but my first impression of the office “WOW! there’s more plants than people in here” – which is beautiful isn’t it?
7. What’s your favourite story from nature?
Again, no favourite but – is it not true that everything got a beautiful story to tell? I really enjoyed this one – ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ but it’s a book, does that count?
8. Describe working for Wildscreen in three words!
Colourful. Artistic. Storytellers.
9. If you could turn into any animal for a day, what would you be and why?
Anything to do with flying or swimming, eagle or a duck, maybe? Why to use animal superpower for walking when you can fly or swim (in my case!).
10.What’s a fun fact about you?
I had a ghostly encounter in Nepal last year but I pretended there’s nothing in the room and stayed in the same room for a week – only to realise afterwards there was definitely something eerie. Can’t watch horror movies the same way now, as I used to :’)
