Wilding

Screening: Sunday, 9/29 @ 2:30pm | Run Time: 1hr 14 min

Directed by David Allen

Synopsis

Based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling book by the same title, Wilding tells the story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. The young couple battles entrenched tradition, and dares to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. Ripping down the fences, they set the land back to the wild and entrust its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild. It is the beginning of a grand experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe.

Director Statement

At Passion Planet, David Allen masterminds an award-winning film department focusing on natural history and factual output across both television and theatrical release documentaries.

With five Emmys and twelve Wildscreen Pandas to his name, David is recognised as one of the leading independent producer/directors in his field. His production for BBC, My Life as a Turkey, was described by The Times, “as probably the best documentary of the year” and won Wildscreen’s coveted “Best of Festival” Golden Panda. More recent productions include landmark conservation series such as Earth: A New Wild & H20: The Molecule that Made Us. Recently David produced the Emmy Award-winning feature documentary The Serengeti Rules and a lock down authored film My Garden of a Thousand Bees, which opened the 40th anniversary year of the PBS series Nature and won David his second Golden Panda at Wildscreen.

David Allen