HHMI TANGLED BANK STUDIOS AND PASSION PICTURES’ WILDING TO PREMIERE AT BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
HHMI TANGLED BANK STUDIOS AND PASSION PICTURES’ WILDING TO PREMIERE AT BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
Rewilding Documentary to Premiere in the U.S. at the Hamptons International Film Festival This October
August 31, 2023 - HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and PASSION PICTURES today announced their feature documentary Wilding will make its World Premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on October 6th. The film will then travel to the Hamptons International Film Festival to make its North American debut in the Compassion, Justice and Animal Rights Signature Program on October 11th.
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 pair battle entrenched tradition as they rip down fences and set the land back to its natural state, entrusting 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 projects in Europe.
“We are so thrilled to launch this important film at the BFI London Film Festival in the UK, and the Hamptons International Film Festival in the U.S.,” said Wilding’s Director, David Allen. “In a world marked by so many wounds it’s rare as a director to get the chance to tell a compelling human story that also contains such a vital message about the world around us. Issy and Charlie’s unlikely journey to repair their failing farm is precisely that: an exhilarating love story about nature’s remarkable ability to heal a world that we increasingly recognise as broken in so many ways.”
“The Wilding team is deeply honoured by the selection of the film at these two prestigious festivals,” said Head of HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, Sean B. Carroll. “The rewilding of the Knepp Estate is both a breath-taking ecological achievement and a marvellous, inspiring story. We are so proud to help bring it to the screen with our remarkably talented partners at Passion Pictures.”
Wilding is produced by three-time Oscar-winning production company PASSION PICTURES; partnered with Emmy and Peabody Award-winning HHMI Tangled Bank Studios whose most recent film, All That Breathes, won best documentary at Sundance, Cannes, and the BFI London Film Festival and was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award. This is the third film co-produced by these two studios, following the Emmy Award-winning film The Serengeti Rules (2018), and the Emmy-nominated My Garden of a Thousand Bees (2021), which won the Golden Panda Award at Wildscreen.
The film is directed by five-time Emmy Award-winning David Allen, produced by Gaby Bastyra, and photographed by multi-BAFTA & Emmy Award-winning cinematographers Tim Cragg and Simon de Glanville.
Wilding’s musical score is composed by Biggi Hilmars and Grammy-nominated Jon Hopkins, cited by The New Yorker as “one of the most celebrated electronic musicians of his generation.”
About HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios is a mission-driven production company that crafts exceptional films about science and nature that inspire wonder, curiosity, and hope. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the studio, a vision of biologist Sean B. Carroll, is uniquely positioned to shine a light on some of the most significant scientific challenges and breakthroughs of our time. Recent films include Oscar-nominated All That Breathes, the only documentary to win best documentary at both Sundance and Cannes; Emmy Award-winners The Serengeti Rules and The Farthest – Voyager In Space; Emmy-nominated Nature’s Fear Factor and My Garden of a Thousand Bees; and Peabody Award-winner Inventing Tomorrow. To extend the reach and impact of each film, the studio undertakes educational and public outreach efforts in partnership with mission-driven organizations. For more information, please visit WWW.TANGLEDBANKSTUDIOS.ORG.
About PASSION PICTURES
PASSION PICTURES is a three-time Academy Award-winning independent production studio with a global reputation for impactful cinematic documentary features for theatrical release and single docs and series for the world’s biggest broadcaster and streaming platforms. PASSION has produced over 90 documentaries including One Day in September, Searching for Sugarman, Listen to Me Marlon and most recently: Caught Out, The Masked Scammer, Merkel, Skandal!, Anastasia, The Territory, Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story and The Rescue. PASSION’s Oscar and Bafta-winning work with partners including Netflix, National Geographic, Showtime and the BBC combines incredible access with dramatic and innovative storytelling and their most recent productions have been recognised at the highest level, selected at Sundance, Telluride, Tribeca and festivals worldwide.
PASSION Planet, a PASSION PICTURES company, is led by five-time Emmy-Award-winning director, producer and Managing Director, David Allen, and Producer Gaby Bastyra. PASSION Planet’s output ranges from authored single films, like the multi-award-winning My Life as A Turkey – described by The Times as “probably the best documentary of the year” – to feature documentaries like the Emmy-winning The Serengeti Rules, and ambitious landmark series like H2O: The Molecule That Made Us, and Earth: A New Wild. Their Emmy-nominated film My Garden of a Thousand Bees, produced during lockdown, was chosen to open the 40th season of NATURE on PBS, and won four Wildscreen Panda Awards, including the prestigious ‘Best of Festival’ Golden Panda.
For more information, please visit WWW.PASSION-PICTURES.COM.