The Jackson Wild Collective is an incredible network and community that is bringing natural history filmmakers and conservationists closer together. While this is particularly important at this time, crucially the platform is helping increase access to the industry to many across the world. Being based in Asia, and seeing first hand some of the barriers to local filmmakers breaking into the global industry, I cannot encourage people enough to sign up and join the community. You’ll have access to opportunities from jobs and grants, to masterclasses and events, but more importantly you can shape the industry and those opportunities moving forward.

I am a biology graduate student from Montreal, Canada, currently studying forest ecology at Yale University. Over the past few years I have travelled around the world conducting research and sharing my findings with global audiences. My favourite part of the Collective has been the map feature and finding out there are many other filmmakers in the Jackson community from Canada!