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Wildscreen Launches New Industry Summit to Shape the Future of Wildlife Storytelling

Wildscreen has announced the launch of its inaugural edition of the Wildscreen Industry Summit, a new 3-day event designed to help the industry navigate the evolving landscape of natural world storytelling.

What we learnt at Science in Storytelling 2025

That’s a wrap on Science in Storytelling 2025! Featuring a plethora of amazingly talented speakers and scientists, we went on a journey discovering the greatest ways to keep science in the spotlight. Read on to find out our highlights!

Wildscreen Announces Botswana as Location for 2025 African Festival

Wildscreen has announced Maun, Botswana, as the location for its third African-based Wildscreen Festival. BBC Studios Natural History Unit are Headline Sponsor once again and Botswana Ignite is the in-country partner.

Wildscreen’s New Look!

You may have noticed that last week Wildscreen had a sneaky makeover. In celebration of our 40th Anniversary this coming October, we felt it was time to glow up our brand, and we woke up last week feeling beautiful!

But our cause for change is more than just keeping up appearances; we’ve come a long way over the last 40 years and we wanted our new branding and website to reflect that.

We were founded in 1982, with the first ever Wildscreen Festival and Panda Awards taking place to celebrate the innovation and talents of the ever growing, wildlife film industry.  The camera view-finder frame was introduced to the Wildscreen branding nearly two decades ago, to signify the importance of the community of filmmakers and photographers who support our work.  

As the years have gone by, Wildscreen has evolved to be much more than a film festival. We envision a world where natural world storytelling is inclusive, accessible and impactful and where nature is protected and thriving. By celebrating and championing authentic and diverse voices, our mission is to connect people with nature, through storytelling.

The new addition of quotation marks to our branding, speaks to this bigger picture. The view-finder and the quotation mark together, share the idea of framing something for it significance; it tells us to look here and value what you see. Nature has so many stories to tell, and there are so many hidden voices deserving representation and platforms for recognition. Our new colour scheme too, has been adapted to be more accessible, opening up stories to wider audiences. 

We are making some exciting moves in 2022, which we hope this brand update will reflect.