In the Name of Wild
2023 in Review
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Documentary, 15-Jan-2023
Ethnographers Phillip and April Vannini travel with their daughter over five years, to five continents and ten countries in search of the different meanings of wilderness, wildness, and wild nature.
The documentary explores wildness in UNESCO World Heritage sites in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Thailand, Italy, Iceland, Canada, Belize, Ecuador, and Argentina.
Throughout ten distinct journeys, the filmmakers—a family of three—meet local residents and learn what wildness means to them.
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