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We are Bristol Wildlife Filmmakers and our courses and events are designed to be fun and informative.

Our filming and filmmaking courses are based on location and timed to coincide with a variety of wildlife events. You’ll learn field craft techniques, enhancing the likelihood of close encounters with animals, and hands-on filming experience will sharpen your camera skills. Editing sequences alongside professionals will give you an insight into creating strong stories and compelling narratives.

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Wild! Behind the Scenes Review: A Day at Tyntesfield

October 28, 2011 Reviews

On Saturday 24th September Bristol Wildlife Filmmakers welcomed twenty-five guests to the Sawmill conference venue on the National Trust’s beautiful Tyntesfield estate for a day of personal, behind the scenes views of wildlife filmmaking from the presenters, producers and camerapeople who create the natural history films we watch on TV.

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June 2011 Course Review: Wildlife Filmmaking at Folly Farm

June 16, 2011 Reviews

On Friday 3rd June Bristol Wildlife Filmmakers welcomed fifteen students to Folly Farm to begin the packed weekend of workshops, hands-on filming and editing that make up our Introduction to Wildlife Filmmaking course.

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January 2011 Course Review: Wildlife Filming at Slimbridge

February 17, 2011 Reviews

On a bitterly cold Thursday morning at the end of January, Bristol Wildlife Filmmakers welcomed sixteen students from all over the UK to the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust’s Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire.

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June 2010 Course Review: Wildflowers and Butterflies

August 2, 2010 Reviews

In June last year six students (and a writer from BBC Countryfile Magazine) joined Bristol Wildlife Filmmakers’ Introduction to Wildlife Filmmaking course at Folly Farm. Working in two groups they were tasked with making short films focusing on Folly’s wild flower meadows.

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Meet the Wildlife Filmmakers Review

August 2, 2010 Reviews

In June last year Bristol Wildlife Filmmakers hosted a Meet the Wildlife Filmmakers Day for the Guild of TV Cameramen (GTC) at Folly Farm. It was an opportunity for documentary cameramen who don’t normally film wildlife to get an insight into the vagaries of working with animals and plants…

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