Wildscreen is the world’s largest and most prestigious wildlife and environmental film festival. Its aim is to encourage and applaud excellence in producing films about the natural world, so as to increase global viewing, public awareness and understanding of nature and the urgent need to conserve it.

Founded by Sir Peter Scott in 1982, the festival has been organised every alternate year in Bristol for the past 28 years. The festival attracts hundreds of delegates from around the globe who work in film, television and the press, as well as those actively involved in working to conserve the environment. The Wildscreen Festival came to India in 2007 and toured Delhi, Pune, Kolkata and Chennai.  In 2009, the festival visited Delhi, Guwahati, Bangalore, Mumbai and Colombo.

The festival includes masterclasses on various aspects of filmmaking and screenings of international wildlife and environmental films, some of them winners of the Panda Awards, nicknamed the green OSCARS®.  Its aim is capacity development of environmental film makers.

The festival will be visiting India in February 2011.

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