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The Wildscreen Festival is the world’s leading international festival celebrating and advancing storytelling about the natural world. Held every two years, the Wildscreen Festival brings together the wildlife film, tv and photography community to transform the craft of natural world storytelling across platforms and across audiences. Through an unrivalled programme of events including workshops, masterclasses, screenings and sessions, it shares the inside track on emerging trends and is the most powerful platform for emerging talent to break into the industry.  It is also the home of the illustrious Wildscreen Panda Awards or ‘Green Oscars’ honouring the most remarkable achievement in the craft of natural world filmmaking and storytelling.

The Wildscreen Festival 2016 will take place 10-14 October 2016 in Bristol, UK. Further information is available at www.wildscreen.org and delegate tickets are on sale now from Eventbrite.

Please note that the programme is being updated daily as guest availability changes. Wildscreen reserves the right to make such updates to the programme and timings, and will endeavour to make those changes as quickly as possible.

The majority of events have a limited numbers of seats. Entrance is permitted on a first-come-first-served basis at the venue door. For particularly high-profile events, you may be asked to RSVP to secure your seat beforehand. Details will be sent to you in advance.

The programme include both industry events, which are included in the price of your day or week delegate pass, and public events that anyone is welcome to attend. 

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Dan Salerno

National Geographic Channels
VP Global Programming
As Vice President of Global Programming, Salerno focuses on programming, development, and strategy for National Geographic and Nat Geo Wild’s international channels. He also manages a range of the US Channel’s strategic programming initiatives including Safari Live and the Westminster Dog Show. Prior to joining the Global Programming team, Salerno led Programming and Strategy for Nat Geo Wild in the US. Salerno joined National Geographic from BBC Worldwide. Based in Miami, he was responsible for leading the strategic programming efforts for BBC’s global channels in Latin America. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of Programming, Production, and Development for Fuse, a music channel in NY. He was also the senior analyst for CableU. Salerno started his career as part of the original launch team of The Discovery Channel, and later, with its sister channels TLC, Animal Planet, Travel, Discovery Health, Military, Home, & Science. Working across all aspects of Programming, he counts Planet Earth, Walking with Dinosaurs, Mythbusters, and Shark Week amongst his favorite programming milestones during his tenure.