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Founded | December 1987 |
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Founder | |
Type | registered charity |
Registration no. | 299450 |
Location |
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Area served | Global |
Key people | Lucie Muir (Director) |
Employees | 4 |
Website | www |
Wildscreen is a wildlife conservation charity [1] based in Bristol, England.
The charity was founded in December 1987 [2] from a trust which had operated since 1982, with the initial aim of encouraging and applauding excellence in the production of natural history films and television. [2] The founders included Sir Peter Scott [1] and Christopher Parsons OBE, former Head of the BBC Natural History Unit. [1]
Location | Bristol, England |
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Founded | 1982 |
Awards | Wildscreen Panda Awards |
Hosted by | Wildscreen |
Website | https://wildscreen.org/festival |
The Wildscreen Festival is the world's leading international festival about nature films. It is held biennially in October in Bristol, England.
The festival began in 1982. In 1994, it merged with a biennial wildlife symposium, previously held in the neighbouring city of Bath. At Wildscreen Festival wildlife filmmakers and broadcasters from different parts of the world met to view the latest productions, discuss issues of mutual interest, exchange ideas and compete for the Panda Awards. [3]
Over the years since then the festival has significantly expanded its scale and content and the charity has also enlarged its remit, including by launching Arkive, a centralised collection of films and photographs of endangered species. [4]
In preparation for the 2020 edition of the festival, Wildscreen announced the launch of the newly revamped Panda Awards, the highest honour in the global wildlife and environmental film industry. The 2020 festival will also feature an Official Selection screening programme and a new award to recognise best practice in sustainable production. David Allen, multi award-winning filmmaker, was also announced as Final Jury Chair. [5]
The 2020 edition of the industry Festival takes place 19–23 October 2020 in Bristol, UK. The Official Selection screening programme will take place between 17 and 25 October and be open to both industry and public audiences
For 2020, the Panda Awards will recognise talent in the following categories; Cinematography, Editing, Emerging Talent (in both film and photography), Music, Photo Story, Producer/Director, Production Team, Scripted Narrative, Series and Sound. There will also be a new Sustainable Production award.
To recognise the broad range of talent and creative storytellers, Wildscreen introduced an Official Selection competition for 2020.
A physical collection of images, footage and information was started, which went online in 2003. This resource has grown to include over 16,000 species profiles and 100,000 images and videos from over 7,500 of the world's filmmakers, photographers and scientists. Arkive also contains topic pages that focus on various conservation issues, geographical regions and biological subjects. Arkive was used by over a million people around the world each month. [6]
In May 2015 Wildscreen launched their newest initiative, Wildscreen Exchange. This conservation initiative provides conservation organisations with access to images, videos and expertise. Wildscreen Exchange contains over 28,000 images and many hours of video that are being used all over the world for campaigns, education resources, community outreach, fundraising and online. [1]
Wildscreen is a registered charity under English law, [7] governed by a board of 17 independent trustees, [1] chaired by Dick Emery OBE, former CEO of UKTV. [1]
The chief executive is Richard Edwards, appointed in March 2011 to succeed Harriet Nimmo, who stepped down in January that year after 13 years with the charity, seven in the CEO role. [8] Despite moving to South Africa, Nimmo retains a connection with the charity, in the advisory role of Wildscreen Strategic Director. [8]
For the period April 2009 – March 2010 (which was a non-festival year for the biennial Wildscreen Festival), the charity's income was declared as £1,409,722, with expenditure of £1,417,362. [1]
Wildscreen is a founder member of the Bristol Natural History Consortium, set up in 2004. [2]
The BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU) is a department of BBC Studios that produces television, radio and online content with a natural history or wildlife theme. It is best known for its highly regarded nature documentaries, including The Blue Planet and Planet Earth, and has a long association with David Attenborough's authored documentaries, starting with 1979's Life on Earth.
Natural World was a strand of British wildlife documentary series broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Two HD and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history series. It was the longest-running documentary series in its genre on British television, with nearly 500 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World episodes were typically films that take an in-depth look at particular natural history events, stories or subjects from around the globe.
A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures. Nature documentaries usually concentrate on video taken in the subject's natural habitat, but often including footage of trained and captive animals, too. Sometimes they are about wildlife or ecosystems in relationship to human beings. Such programmes are most frequently made for television, particularly for public broadcasting channels, but some are also made for the cinema. The proliferation of this genre occurred almost simultaneously alongside the production of similar television series which is distributed across the world.
Watershed opened in June 1982 as the United Kingdom's first dedicated media centre. Based in former warehouses on the harbourside at Bristol, it hosts three cinemas, a café/bar, events/conferencing spaces, the Pervasive Media Studio, and office spaces for administrative and creative staff. It occupies the former E and W sheds on Canon's Road at Saint Augustine's Reach, and underwent a major refurbishment in 2005. The building also hosts UWE eMedia Business Enterprises, Most of Watershed's facilities are situated on the second floor of two of the transit sheds. The conference spaces and cinemas are used by many public and private sector organisations and charities. Watershed employs the equivalent of over seventy full-time staff and has an annual turnover of approximately £3.8 million. As well as its own commercial income, Watershed Arts Trust is funded by national and regional arts funders.
ARKive was a global initiative with the mission of "promoting the conservation of the world's threatened species, through the power of wildlife imagery", which it did by locating and gathering films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species into a centralised digital archive. Its priority was the completion of audio-visual profiles for the c. 17,000 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Neil Nightingale is a British freelance wildlife filmmaker, executive producer and creative consultant with over 35 years experience at the BBC. From 2009 to 2018 he was the creative director of BBC Earth, BBC Worldwide's global brand for all BBC nature and science content.
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Fathollah Amiri is an Iranian documentary filmmaker with a career focusing on the environment and wildlife of Iran. His film, Ranger and Leopard, received the Green Screen award in Germany in 2018. His film Vortex won the 33rd edition of the Sondrio Festival in Italy in 2019. He has also served as a judge at the Matsalu Nature Film Festival in Estonia in 2019 and the Sondrio Festival of Environmental Films in Italy in 2020. In Iran, Amiri has won notable awards, including two Fajr International Film Festival awards for In Search of the Persian Leopard (2012) and Life in Eclipse (2010), as well as the Grand Prize of the Cinema Verite Festival for Alamto, A reptile wonderland (2014).
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