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Great news:

The award for Best Feature Film at the New York Feedback Film Screenplay Festival 2025 goes to ‘Parents in the Wild - Mating Games and Birth Days’ (Wilde Eltern - Mit Leidenschaft zum Nachwuchs (WDR/Arte, 2023) by Annette Scheurich and Moritz Mayerle.

Congratulations to all involved!

We would like to thank the entire team for their excellent work and especially Klaus Kunde Neimöth (WDR) and Claudia Schwab (SWR) for making this project possible.

And here is the audience feedback video from the festival:

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-parents-in-the-wild

Click here for the festival website:

https://newyorkfeedbackfilmfestival.com/2025/03/25/highlights-march-2025-nyc-feedback-festival/

Link to the movie: 

https://www.marco-polo-film.de/en/movies/production/production/parents-in-the-wild-mating-games-and-birth-days/

What a fantastic surprise! Our two nominated films have won awards at the Children's, Science, Nature & Wildlife Film Fest in India!

‘Parents in the Wild - Mating Games and Birth Days’ (Wilde Eltern - Mit Leidenschaft zum Nachwuchs (Part 1) WDR/Arte, 2023) by Annette Scheurich and Moritz Mayerle receives the award for Best Documentary Film.

‘Scandinavia - Into the Light’ (Skandinavien - Rückkehr des Lichts (Part 1) Arte/ZDF 2023) by Mi-Yong Brehm and Verena Feige was honoured with the award for Best Director.

We are delighted for the filmmakers and their teams and congratulate them warmly!

https://miniboxoffice.com/childrens-nature-wildlife-film-festival/winner-detail.php?id=MjU3

And there is more great festival news:

‘Parents in the Wild - Mating Games and Birth Days’ (Wilde Eltern - Mit Leidenschaft zum Nachwuchs (Teil 1) WDR/Arte, 2023), as well as ‘Parents in the Wild - Mission Offspring’ (Wilde Eltern - Im Einsatz für die Kinder (Teil 2) WDR/Arte, 2023) by Annette Scheurich and Moritz Mayerle are running in competition at the New York Feedback Film Screenplay Festival in March 2025.

The special feature of this festival - there will be an audience feedback video, which we will publish here.

Our fingers are crossed for the competition.

New York FEEDBACK Film Festival – Toronto, Los Angeles, Chicago….and now FINALLY New York City. Anthology Film Archives. 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.) Manhattan, NY

New Nominations lighten up the winter blues!

We are delighted to announce that two of our films are shortlisted at the Children's, Science, Nature & Wildlife Film Fest 2025 in India:

‘Parents in the Wild - Mating Games and Birth Days’ (Wilde Eltern – Mit Leidenschaft zum Nachwuchs (Teil 1) WDR/Arte, 2023) by Annette Scheurich and Moritz Mayerle and ‘Scandinavia - Into the Light’ (Skandinavien – Rückkehr des Lichts (Teil 1) ZDF/Arte 2023) by Mi-Yong Brehm and Verena Feige.

Congratulations and many thanks to the filmmakers and their teams for their wonderful work!

We keep our fingers crossed.

The festival will already take place on 08 March 2025.

Children's Nature & Wildlife Film Festival

We can look forward to more great festival news. An episode of our 6-part series - ‘Strände Europas – Spiekeroog’ (‘Beaches of Europe - Spiekeroog’, ZDF/Arte, 2023) by Herbert Ostwald has been selected for the competition at the Cinemare Festival 2025 in Kiel.

Congratulations to the whole team. We keep our fingers crossed.

The festival takes place from 14 - 18 May 2025.

https://www.cinemare.org/

We are delighted that ‘Parents in the Wild - Mission Offspring’ (Wilde Eltern - Im Einsatz für die Kinder (Teil 2) WDR/Arte, 2023) has been nominated at this year's Festival de l'Oiseau et de la Nature in Abbeville, France. Congratulations to the filmmakers Annette Scheurich and Moritz Mayerle and to the entire team.

Our fingers are crossed.

The festival will take place from 12 - 20 April 2025.

https://www.festival-oiseau-nature.com/

Dear friends and colleagues,

We would like to thank all participants and contributors for the great cooperation in the past year and wish you a Merry Christmas and a good start into a healthy, peaceful year 2025.

Your Marco Polos

We are delighted about two new nominations. ‘Wilde Eltern - Im Einsatz für die Kinder’ (‘Parents in the Wild – Mission Offspring’, Part 2, WDR/Arte, 2023) by Annette Scheurich and Moritz Mayerle and ‘Skandinavien - Rückkehr des Lichts’ (‘Scandinavia – Into the Light’, Part 1, ZDF/Arte, 2023) by Mi-Yong Brehm and Verena Feige are in the programme and have now also been nominated for the Ökofilmtour 2025 competition.

Congratulations to the filmmakers on their nomination. Our fingers are crossed!

https://oekofilmtour.de/

The 20th Ökofilmtour will open on 10 January 2025 in Potsdam and end with an awards ceremony on 9 May 2025. From January to April, the festival will tour throughout Brandenburg and show films from the programme in around 60 locations in around 70 venues.

It has been clear for some time that the German version of our “Dormouse Detectives” ("SOKO Gartenschläfer” BR/Arte, 2022) will be screened at the European Wildlife Film Awards 2025 . Now we have received the good news that the documentary by Rosie Koch and Roland Gockel has also been nominated for the award competition. Congratulations to Rosie and Roland and the whole team.

Fingers crossed for the award ceremony on February 15, 2025 in Hamburg!

https://www.europeanwildlifefilmawards.eu/

We are delighted that our film ‘Wilde Eltern - mit Leidenschaft zum Nachwuchs’ by Annette Scheurich and Moritz Mayerle will be broadcast in prime time at 8.15 pm on ARD.

In spectacular shots, the documentary gives a very intimate insight into the ‘love life’ of wild parents around the globe.

Save the date! We hope you enjoy watching.