Please find the WFN Newsletter for the month ending March 2023.
Should anyone wish to add/write anything to the next newsletter, please feel free to email it to me at info@wildlifefilmnetwork.com
Points of notice for this month:
New – 1. New members
New – 2. We are looking for a location to hold our WFN Face-to-Face meeting in April.
New – 3. We said there was something big on the way… and here it is !!
1. We gained 1 new member last month:
We have gained 1 new members during February.
Claire Tomlinson – Is a past student at the UK Wildlife Film School (Attending a course in 2014) and recently joined the WFN after contacting us via Facebook. She has a very varied history working as a wildlife photographer, filmmaker, artist and educator with a passion for conservation; and is currently collaborating with a small team to produce an independent documentary about orcas in Scotland, acting as 1st assistant director whilst co-writing the script.
Claire is also spending her time undertaking a remote internship with https://mosquitomedia.co/ working as script writer and video editor for various wildlife films. In addition, I am collaborating with the Mosquito Media team on a short film about Madagascar.
Check out her profile page, it’s very impressive.
Again I would like to ask you to encourage everyone you know or work with to join the Wildlife Film Network as a member!
2. We are still looking for a location to hold our WFN Face-to-Face meeting in April
…Sadly, we have not had a single email from any of our UK WFN members suggesting a location in which they would like us to hold our second quarterly face-to-face network meeting of 2023 on Saturday 15th of April. So I am extending the time you have to let me know by a week until the (Just in case you missed the notice in the last newsletter) and would like to suggest a location.
Again, if we do not hear from anyone, we will not hold a meeting.
Our Second quarterly face-to-face network meeting of 2023 on Saturday 22nd July. As I am running a wildlife film course for the whole of August.
Again, we are looking for suggestions of where you would like us to hold our face-to-face meeting in July.
Thank you.
3. We said there was something big on the way… and here it is !!
It has taken far more effort than originally thought (we have been working on this for months) and naturally it was massively delayed by several years because of Covid; but we are now extremely happy to announce that we have finally launched our first ‘WFN Annual Photographic Awards’
Submissions are open for the whole of the summer, running from 1st April until 1st of September each year, with the judging period taking part in the Autumn and prizes being announced just in time for Christmas.
There are six different categories you can enter-
- Wildlife
- Macro
- Marine
- Landscape
- Behind the scenes
- Computer Edited Image
- You may submit your photo / photos at any time during the submission period from 1st April to 1st
- You are able to upload as many photographs as you like (1, 5 or up to 10 in one upload) and you may make as many uploads as you like.
- You may submit photos into just one category in one upload, or multiple categories in one upload.
- You will receive an automated receipt from the WFN to confirm the photos you have uploaded / received by us.
- The awards are open to both WFN members (and non-WFM members) alike. So tell your friends and family and we look forward to receiving a pleather of outstanding photographs from all of you.
- For more information click here – https://wildlifefilmnetwork.com/photo-awards/
