"The whole landscape was breathing a sigh of relief. You could hear it." MetFilm has revealed the official UK trailer for a documentary film tiled Wilding, an adaptation of the book of the same name from Isabella Tree. The film is a compelling look at a dying landscape that is healed against all odds, going on to thrive in astonishing ways. The book describes the creation of Knepp Wildland, the first large-scale rewilding project in lowland England. The 3,500 acres wildland project was created in the grounds of Knepp Castle, where they torn down all the fences and let nature take over again. This almost seems like the British doc version of The Biggest Little Farm doc about a couple creating a sustainable farm in California. Wilding directed by five-time Emmy Award-winner David Allen, with cinematography by multi-bafta & Emmy Award-winning DPs Tim Cragg and Simon de Glanville. And featuring a score...
- 4/10/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Met Film Sales has acquired international rights to David Allen’s nature documentary Wilding, which it will introduce to buyers at next week’s European Film Market.
Met Film Distribution, the company’s distribution arm, will release the film theatrically in the UK this summer. Submarine negotiated the deal with MetFilm on behalf of the filmmakers, and will handle the North American sale.
Wilding is based on Isabella Tree’s 2018 book Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm, in which Tree details the efforts of herself and her husband to renew the ecosystem on their estate, Knepp, after decades of intensive agriculture.
Met Film Distribution, the company’s distribution arm, will release the film theatrically in the UK this summer. Submarine negotiated the deal with MetFilm on behalf of the filmmakers, and will handle the North American sale.
Wilding is based on Isabella Tree’s 2018 book Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm, in which Tree details the efforts of herself and her husband to renew the ecosystem on their estate, Knepp, after decades of intensive agriculture.
- 2/6/2024
- ScreenDaily
Taking the fashionable genre as a starting point, Ric Rawlings’ film tries to elevate amateurism in three creepy rural stories but it just looks inept
Those interested in the concept of rewilding, a form of environmental conservation that seeks to restore land to a more natural state as popularised by the book by Isabella Tree, should be well advised that this film has nothing to do with that. Rather, it is an almost endearingly amateurish package, written and directed by Ric Rawlins, that is an exercise in something that’s almost as fashionable these days: folk horror. There’s lashings of folk horror about these days, some of it, like Enys Men, very good. Rewilding, however, is not very good, if we are being honest. But it’s as folky as you get, telling three disconnected stories set in the West Country and Wales revolving around such folky elements as spooky coastal caves,...
Those interested in the concept of rewilding, a form of environmental conservation that seeks to restore land to a more natural state as popularised by the book by Isabella Tree, should be well advised that this film has nothing to do with that. Rather, it is an almost endearingly amateurish package, written and directed by Ric Rawlins, that is an exercise in something that’s almost as fashionable these days: folk horror. There’s lashings of folk horror about these days, some of it, like Enys Men, very good. Rewilding, however, is not very good, if we are being honest. But it’s as folky as you get, telling three disconnected stories set in the West Country and Wales revolving around such folky elements as spooky coastal caves,...
- 1/31/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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