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Isabella Tree previews new Wilding documentary in Bath and Bristol
English aristo and conservationist Isabella Tree, Lady Burrell, scored a bestseller with her much-acclaimed 2018 book Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm. This recounted the transformation of her family’s failing 400-year-old Knepp estate in West Sussex during one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe. Battling entrenched tradition, Isabella and her former dairy farmer husband returned their land to the wild and entrusted it to a motley mix of tame and wild animals.
The book sold more than 350,000 copies in the UK and worldwide and has now been turned into a feature-length documentary by the company behind the Emmy-nominated My Garden of a Thousand Bees (2021), which won the Golden Panda Award at Wildscreen. Wilding premiered at the 2023 BFI London Film Festival and goes on general release from June 14.
A Tamworth piglet on the journey from tame to wild
Two local previews have been organised, each featuring an in-person Q&A with Isabella Tree. The first is at Bath’s Little Theatre cinema on Friday 31 May, as part of the cinema’s Green Screen series. Go here for tickets. The following day, Saturday 1 June, it’s at the Watershed in Bristol. Go here for tickets.
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Main image: Isabella Tree, as played by Rhiannon Neads, meets a Tamworth pig sow at Knepp. All pix: MetFilm Distribution
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