Wild Strathfillan

Documentary

Wild Strathfillan is a nature restoration project covering around 50,000 hectares in the north of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, led by the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs Countryside Trust with more than thirty land managers, communities, charities and public bodies involved. The ground holds temperate rainforest, montane scrub and the most southerly of the surviving Caledonian pinewoods, and the restoration work has to sit alongside the farming, forestry and stalking that people there make a living from.

Of the three films this is the one made to be sent to funders, and the brief changed the edit. A film going in front of a funding panel has to carry an argument: what the problem is, what the plan is, and whether the people proposing it can be relied on to do it. That puts the people making the case at the centre of the film and uses the landscape to show the scale of what they are taking on.

It runs to nine minutes and opens from the air, looking up the strath with the cloud sitting low on the hills. I filmed and edited it.