We are delighted to bring this beautiful film to Wivey!
The film will followed by a live panel discussion led by Julian Mellor with James Grischeff (Director of Nature Recovery, Somerset Wildlife Trust and Becky Hurd (Whitefield Farm).
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 dares 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.
Wilding, directed by David Allen, is based on the bestselling book by Isabella Tree. Talitha Stowell describes how the film “centres our gaze on 3500 acres in West Sussex, mixing documentary with acted story-telling in this splendid feature about the hope for the British countryside.”, “It may not be trimmed to perfection or symmetrically seeded, but that’s the point. Biodiversity thrives at Knepp, no matter its wildness.”