Director: Cindy Lee
REEL WILD® Official Selection 2025
An Oscar-nominated South African short film that follows a lone ranger and her young protégé fighting to protect rhinoceroses from ruthless poachers in a wildlife reserve during the pandemic.
Director: Ryan Wilkes
REEL WILD® Official Selection 2025
A short documentary that follows passionate citizen scientist Eric Pittman using super slow-motion cameras to capture the daily struggles and spectacular behavior of hummingbirds nesting in his urban garden
Director: Tasha Van Zandt
From the Director of the 2026 REEL WILD® Best in Festival and Best Exploration Film Awards
A gripping look at legendary polar explorer Will Steger, who, thirty years after leading the first coast-to-coast dogsled traverse of Antarctica, reflects on being the last person to ever accomplish the feat due to the rapid melting of the ice.
Directors: Evgenia Arbugaeva & Maxim Arbugaev
REEL WILD® Official Selection 2025
Visually stunning, Oscar-nominated short documentary that follows a solitary marine biologist in the remote Siberian Arctic as he witnesses nearly 100,000 walruses crowd a single beach—a chaotic and tragic phenomenon caused by the loss of Arctic sea ice.
Director: Taira Malaney
REEL WILD® Official Selection 2025
Follows the life of Satish Bhaskar, an Indian conservationist who dedicated himself to studying and protecting endangered sea turtles along India's coasts in the 1970s, and explores the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami on their habitats.
Director: Owen Prümm
From award-winning studio, Terra Mater.
The Bastard King chronicles the life of a lion from cub to King - battling against an unimaginable enemy that is ravaging a world where blood is becoming easier to find than water. This unique story challenges traditional storytelling - serving as an allegory for endangered species - and our very own fate.
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