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Wild Ideas South West Tour 

Local people in Cornwall will have the opportunity to view the 6 Wild Ideas short films as part of the Wild Ideas South West Tour this month.  The Cornish event takes place o­n Thursday 17th March 2005 at 5pm in Geevor Mine, Penzance. 

The Wild Ideas project has brought together 6 groups of young people in the South West of England with community-based filmmakers in their region to rise to the challenge of each producing a short film aimed at communicating to young people about their lives and environment.  The young participants from Bristol, Plymouth, Cornwall, Bath and Wiltshire worked with a community-based filmmaker in their area and developed their filmmaking skills during a series of workshops run by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol.

image from "A Perfect World"

The filmmaking process and ownership of the final films has been entirely driven by the young participants to ensure that film content and style is of interest and appealing to other youth audiences.  The resulting 6 films range from a music video, to a natural history film about humans and a look at pets in the city.

The South West Tour is an opportunity for members of the public to enjoy the films produced during the project.  Each film screening will be free of charge to attend and will take place in unusual and unexpected locations set to take place o­n the following dates:

• Knowle West Health Park, Bristol - Friday 11th March - 7pm
• Place de Brest, Plymouth City Centre - Saturday 12th March 12 noon
• Geevor Mine, Penzance - Thursday 17th March 5pm
• Duck Pond, Royal Victoria Gardens, Bath Tuesday 22nd March - 7.30pm 
• Millennium Green, Congresbury – Thursday 24th March – 7pm
• New Trinity, Bristol - Monday 28th March - 8pm

A preview screening of the final films was attended by the young people with their families and friends as well as Neil Nightingale, Head of BBC Natural History Unit. 

Neil Nightingale said “The young people have presented natural history in a new and exciting way.  What was so fantastic about the films was that they were all so different.”

The films include a music video A Perfect World, Beast, a spoof look at documentary making, A Meerkats Tale, a nature documentary where meerkats look at humans, Pets in the City and Our Lives with Horses.

The Wild Ideas project has been invited to an Environment Festival in Costa Rica and the Media Environment Summit in Borneo during 2005 to screen the films.  It is hoped that the films will be translated into Spanish and Indonesian and screened to young people in Central America and Kuching with the possibility of making a short Wild Ideas film from each country to bring back for screening in the South West.

Wild Ideas is an initiative of Bristol Natural History Consortium and has been made possible through the Inspire SW programme, which is jointly funded by the South West Regional Development Agency and the European Union.

The 6 films along with ‘making of’ footage and other useful information about how to make your own natural history films and getting into the natural history filmmaking industry will be available o­n a special Wild Ideas DVD from April 2005.

For more information about the project and to find out about film screenings in your area contact Sam o­n 0117 915 7235 or sam.burkey@wildscreen.org.uk

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