Sussex on Screen: Wilding
Cinema
David Allen, 2023 1h 15m (PG)
This true story of a daring and inspirational rewilding project is screening as part of Sussex on Screen, a season showcasing films which feature Sussex landscapes and locations.
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At Sussex’s Knepp Castle, two conservation pioneers allowed nature to ‘rewild’ their 3,500-acre estate with remarkable results.
Based on Isabella Tree’s bestselling book of the same name, Emmy-award winning filmmaker David Allen’s Wilding is a charming story of ecological regeneration.
Inheriting Knepp Castle as a failing 400-year-old estate in the ‘80s, conservation pioneers Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell decided to let nature take back the land in a leap of faith, battling entrenched tradition to do so. The first scheme of its kind in Britain, Knepp is now one of the most significant rewilding experiments in all of Europe and a beacon of hope for British wildlife, while Tree and Burrell have evolved from amateur wildlife lovers to dedicated conservationists – both knowledgeable about the catastrophic loss of biodiversity in Britain, and quietly hopeful that work like theirs can reverse the decline.