Join us for 'Pick n Mix' Screening Selection + Q&A as part of Wildscreen Festival’s Official Selection public screenings.

Two South West filmmakers collide in this meeting of Short & Feature. The small but mighty 'Intercellular' turns the microscope onto the single-celled Paramecium, with the film's director, Dan Short, also recognised as a Nominee in this year's Emerging Talent Panda Award Category.

This will be followed up by the feature film, 'The Eagle With the Sunlit Eye'. Prepare to see both sides of the raging debate surrounding the reintroduction of one of the UK's apex predators, the White Tailed Eagle.

Intercellular (10m): UWE
Intercellular follows a single pond-dwelling cell, called Paramecium, on its courageous journey through life.

In this microscopic universe populated by bizarre, even terrifying, life forms, Paramecium is beset by many of the struggles for survival we see in our world. However, generations of repeated cloning leaves Paramecium at risk of disintegrating.

To survive, Paramecium has to find a mate to undergo an age-reversing transformation with – 'becoming their own children' in the process and starting a new paramecium dynasty.

Featuring a synthesised composition which marries score with sound effect, created by Tomer Baruch (of Animals and Synthesisers), Intercellular brings us close to the hypnotic beauty and previously untold drama of this microcosmos, as if we were immersed in it ourselves.


The Eagle With The Sunlit Eye (92m): Ted Simpson
We drove it to extinction. We brought it back. Can we learn to look it in the eye?

The White Tailed Eagle is one of the largest birds of prey on the planet. For generations, humans have struck an uneasy relationship with this apex predator. We persecuted it to extinction in Britain a century ago - and then the 1970s saw this greatest of eagles brought back to our wild edges.

The return of this apex predator sparked controversy, as accusations of livestock killings quickly surfaced from Scotland’s rural community. Despite no record of predation in Norway, and with an Irish reintroduction scheme ongoing, in Scotland a war of words rages on over the future of this raptor.

This film dives unflinchingly into the conflict, just as the fire burns white hot. Pulling back the curtain on the reintroduction process, combining breathtaking visuals with heart stopping action, and even turning the cameras onto the filmmakers themselves, this epic documentary ultimately asks us - will we ever learn to live alongside the eagle with the sunlit eye? And what will we lose if we can’t?

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