Wildscreen

Wildscreen
Founded December 1987 (1987-12)
Founder
Type registered charity
Registration no. 299450
Location
Area served
 Global
Key people
 Lucie Muir (Director)
Employees
 4
Mission "to convene the best photographers, filmmakers and creative professionals with the most committed conservationists to create compelling stories about the natural world; that inspire the wider public to experience it, feel part of it and protect it."[1]
Website www.wildscreen.org

Wildscreen is a wildlife conservation charity[1] based in Bristol, England. It's goal is to convene the best photographers, filmmakers and creative professionals with the most committed conservationists to create compelling stories about the natural world; that inspire the wider public to experience it, feel part of it and protect it.

The charity was founded in December 1987[2] from a trust which had operated since 1982.[2] The founders included Sir Peter Scott[1] and Christopher Parsons OBE, former Head of the BBC Natural History Unit,[1] with the initial aim of encouraging and applauding excellence in the production of natural history films and television.

Wildscreen Film Festival

Wildscreen Festival
Location Bristol, England
Founded 1982 (1982)
Awards Wildscreen Panda Awards
Hosted by Wildscreen
Website http://wildscreen.org/festival

The Wildscreen Festival is the world’s leading international festival celebrating and advancing storytelling about the natural world. It is held biennially in October in Bristol, England.

The festival began in 1982 to reward excellence in wildlife filmmaking, and to provide a showcase for new productions. 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 which can be accessed free of charge through an award-winning website.[4]

Other Initiatives

With the dawn of the internet, Wildscreen wanted to make awe-inspiring wildlife images and footage accessible to the public and to educate them about species and natural habitats. A physical collection of images, footage and information was started, which went online in 2003 on www.arkive.org. This unparalleled, scientifically accurate, freely accessible resource has grown to include over 16,000 species profiles and 100,000 images and videos from over 7,500 of the world’s leading filmmakers, photographers and scientists. Arkive also contains topic pages that focus on various conservation issues, geographical regions and biological subjects. Arkive is used by over a million people around the world each month and will continue to grow in the future, exploring even more of our natural world.

In May 2015 Wildscreen launched their newest initiative, Wildscreen Exchange. This dynamic conservation initiative provides the world’s conservation organisations with access to the images, videos and expertise that they need to communicate effectively with their audience and spread their stories further than ever before. 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]

Management

Wildscreen is a registered charity under English law,[5] 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.[6] Despite moving to South Africa, Nimmo retains a connection with the charity, in the advisory role of Wildscreen Strategic Director.[6]

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]

Patrons

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 WildScreen Annual Review 2010 (PDF). Wildscreen. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 "Wildscreen – About". Retrieved 12 July 2011.
  3. ↑ Slade, Caroline (14 October 2012). "Wildscreen Festival, preview". Telegraph. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Wildscreen/ARKive, UK". Sterna. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  5. ↑ Wildscreen, Registered Charity no. 299450 at the Charity Commission
  6. 1 2 "Wildscreen – News – Press releases". Wildscreen. 7 March 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2011.

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