Wildscreen
| Founded | December 1987 |
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| Type | registered charity |
| Registration no. | 299450 |
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Area served
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Global |
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Key people
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Lucie Muir (Director) |
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Employees
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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." |
| Website | www |
| Location | Bristol, England |
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| Founded | 1982 |
| Awards | Wildscreen Panda Awards |
| Hosted by | Wildscreen |
| Website | http://wildscreen.org/festival |
Wildscreen is a wildlife conservation charity based in Bristol, England.
The charity was founded in December 1987 from a trust which had operated since 1982. The founders included Sir Peter Scott and Christopher Parsons OBE, former Head of the BBC Natural History Unit, with the initial aim of encouraging and applauding excellence in the production of natural history films and television.
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.
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.
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 is used by over a million people around the world each month.
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..
Wildscreen is a registered charity under English law, governed by a board of 17 independent trustees, chaired by Dick Emery OBE, former CEO of UKTV.
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