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The Wildscreen Festival is the world’s leading international festival celebrating and advancing storytelling about the natural world. Held every two years, the Wildscreen Festival brings together the wildlife film, tv and photography community to transform the craft of natural world storytelling across platforms and across audiences.

The Wildscreen Festival 2018 will take place 15-19 October 2018 in Bristol, UK. Further information is available at www.wildscreen.org and delegate tickets are on sale now from Eventbrite.

Please note that the programme is being updated frequently as guest availability changes. Wildscreen reserves the right to make such updates to the programme and timings, and will endeavour to make those changes as quickly as possible.

Delegates holding a day or week pass do not need to register to attend specific events with the exception of the Panda Awards Ceremony (additional purchase required) and film screenings (no additional purchase required). Reservation details can be found in the description of each individual screening.

To help you manage your time at the Wildscreen Festival, you can sign up for a Sched account and login to save events to your personal calendar. Note that doing so does not guarantee entry to events as seating is on a first-come-first-served basis at the venue door. We advise that you arrive in plenty of time before a session starts.

The programme includes both industry events, which are included in the price of a delegate day or week pass, and public events that anyone is welcome to attend, subject to booking procedures.  
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Wednesday, October 17 • 18:30 - 19:45
Attenborough's Ant Mountain + Q&A

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David Attenborough travels to the Jura Mountains in the Swiss Alps, to find out about one of the largest animal societies in the world, where over a billion ants live in peace. After following the lives of these incredible creatures and their dramatic fight for survival for a year, he is able to unravel the secrets of the Swiss super-colony...

Austria, 51 mins
A production of Terra Mater Factual Studios in association with BBC and ABC Australia produced by Ammonite Ltd

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Martin Dohrn.


Nominated for: Panasonic Large Budget Cinematography Award

DELEGATES: Week/day ticket holders don't need to purchase tickets to screenings as they're included in your delegate pass. But since capacity is limited, you do need to book a ticket in advance of this screening here. Tickets are available on a first-come-first-served basis.
Speakers
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Martin Dohrn

Director, Ammonite Ltd
Director of the award-winning production company Ammonite Films, Martin Dohrn took up photography seriously at the age of 14 to record butterflies rather than collect them. After studying photography at art college, he worked as a photographer in London for six years before joining... Read More →
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Ivo Filatsch

Executive Producer/Writer/Director, Terra Mater Factual Studios GmbH
Ivo was the EP for the documentary "Attenborough’s Ant Mountain” which was written and directed by Martin Dohrn of Ammonite Films and Joe Loncraine.Ivo’s focus is the production of high quality documentaries in the fields of natural history, science and history for the international... Read More →

Wednesday October 17, 2018 18:30 - 19:45 BST
Arnolfini 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA, UK
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