Hyderabad, February 17: Wildscreen aims to encourage excellence in producing films about the natural world, so as to increase public awareness and understanding of nature and the 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 Wildscreen Festival came to India in 2007.
The five-day festival includes ‘masterclasses’, workshops for the young and budding filmmakers and students apart from screening of award-winning films on climate change and wildlife.
These workshops were held at the Prasad Preview Theatre on February 15 and 16.
Eminent wildlife filmmakers from UK and India such as Sandesh Kadur, Martin Elsbury, Amanda Theunissen, and Dominic Weston conducted the workshops.
–Agencies