RED APE: Saving the Orangutan

For the last decade, a team of frontline medics has been fighting to save Borneo’s critically endangered orangutans. Armed with cameras, International Animal Rescue has documented their struggle: pulling apes from devastated jungle, giving emergency medical care, rehabilitating, and releasing the healthiest orangutans back into the wild. This is both the story of their life-saving work and of how one of our closest wild relatives has been pushed to the brink of extinction. Combining genuine rescue footage with contributions from experts throughout, this Natural World documentary looks toward the future and asks what hope remains to save the orangutan.

Nominated for: Doghouse Editing Award

The screening will be followd by a Q&A with a founder of Offspring Films - Alex Williamson and hosted by Meg Houghton-Gilmour.

Wildscreen Festival is the world’s largest and most prestigious wildlife and environmental filmmaking event which takes place in Bristol every two years. Wildscreen is a Bristol based charity with the goal to convene the best photographers, filmmakers and creative professionals with the most committed conservationists to create compelling stories about the natural world; that inspire the wider public to experience it, feel part of it and protect it.

Immerse yourself in the wild for a week of screenings from 15 – 21 October. See the full programme of screenings here.

If you're a Wildscreen Festival day/week delegate, enter the promo code to reserve your free ticket. You will be asked to show your delegate badge to gain entry to the screening.