Wildscreen 2018: Day Three

The public screening programme of this year’s Wildscreen Festival continues today at three venues – the Arnolfini, Watershed and the festival’s own hub in Millennium Square. Tickets are £5 (£3.50 concessions) across all venues. Scroll down for today’s full programme and go here to book.

Toad People + Q&A
15:45 – 17:25
Watershed

A story about hope, community and the struggle to save the western toad.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s directors, Isabelle Groc and Mike McKinlay.

The Serengeti Rules + Q&A
18:00 – 19:45
Watershed

One of the most important but untold science stories of our time—a tale with profound implications for the fate of life on our planet.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with executive producer, David Allen.

Attenborough’s Ant Mountain
18:30 – 19:45
Arnolfini

David Attenborough travels to the Jura Mountains in the Swiss Alps, to find out about one of the largest animal societies in the world, where over a billion ants live in peace. After following the lives of these incredible creatures and their dramatic fight for survival for a year, he is able to unravel the secrets of the Swiss super-colony.

RARE: Creatures of the Photo Ark + Q&A
18:30 – 19:45
Wildscreen Festival Hub, Millennium Square

RARE: Creatures of the Photo Ark travels with renowned National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore as he photographs at-risk and rare species in the wild, in zoos, in nature preserves. Joel’s Photo Ark initiative serves as an important record of each animals’ existence and a powerful testament to the importance of saving them.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Chun-Wei Yi and screenwriter Stella Cha.

Double Bill: One Strange Rock + Q&A
20:15 – 22:35
Wildscreen Festival Hub, Millennium Square

From award-winning filmmaker Darren Aronofsky comes a mind-bending, thrilling journey that explores the fragility and wonder of planet Earth—one of the most peculiar, unique places in the universe.

Gasp
For the privileged few who have looked down at the Earth from space, the thin blue line of our planet’s sets the Earth apart from every other planet we’ve seen. It sustains life. The story of how the Earth creates and regulates that oxygen rich-atmosphere is mind-blowing: A flying river, a global dust storm, a collapsing glacier and the most important creature you’ve never heard of. All connected together to allow life and the planet to breathe.

Home
After 3 missions, and 665 weightless days in space, NASAs most experienced astronaut, Peggy Whitson, smashes through the atmosphere on her final journey home – to Planet Earth. With her first steps back on land, she encounters fresh air, blue skies, warm sun and, of course, gravity there’s no place like home. Or is there? Just how strange is our rock and is it really unique in the universe?

The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with directors Alice Jones and Graham Booth.

Rise of the Warrior Apes + Q&A
20:30 – 22:15
Arnolfini

Rise of the Warrior Apes tells the twenty year story of the largest and most powerful chimpanzee society ever known. Through the extraordinary lives of four unique chimps we experience an intense political drama and bloody conflict in the African jungle.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director James Reed and contributor John Mitani.