Wilding

The highest grossing documentary in the UK in 2024, WILDING tells the story of a couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing four-hundred-year-old estate. 

Produced by three-time Oscar winning production company Passion Pictures partnered with Oscar-nominated and Emmy and Peabody Award-winning HHMI Bank Studios, WILDING was selected to screen at BFI London Film Festival 2023, Montclair Film Festival 2023, Sydney Film Festival 2024, Melbourne International Film Festival 2024, Norwegian International Film Festival 2024, Hamptons International Film Festival, where it won 'Giving Voice to the Voiceless' Award and Illuminate Film Festival 2024 where it won the Audience Award.

WILDING boasts extraordinary footage of the creatures inhabiting the Knepp estate in West Sussex and the ways they have bought the land back to life. From the pigs turning over the soil, to the first wild storks born in the UK for 600 years, to the ten-year wait for the license to allow beavers on the land, cinematographers Tim Craigg and Simon De Glanville give the English countryside widescreen grandeur.

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 dare 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.

"Wonderful…An inspiring true story that shows how we can revive nature and restore hope"
Patrick Barkham, The Guardian 

"Nature is healing in this soul-enhancing, hopeful ode to the British countryside"
★★★★ Time Out

"Visually stunning… a life enhancing experience"
★★★★ The Arts Desk