The Big Walk: A Picnic with Purpose
Client
The Eden Project
Distribution
Company Website + Social Media
Location
Europe
Shooting Director:
Steve Maud
Editor:
Aaron Witchard
Producer:
Courtney Wright
Executive Producer
Chris Wilson (zero30media)
Production Manager:
Rachael McLean Anderson
One of a series of Big Walk events hosted by The Eden Project’s Eden Communities initiative.
We love films that give us a chance to really capture good things going on and try and drive changed as a result.
In this film, our team put the spotlight on community members at Llandrindod in Wales, where local Pomarium members who grow trees and food invited guests to a big picnic with purpose. Thanks to the local business community, over 50 fruit trees were donated and once mature, the fruit from these trees will be free to anyone who wishes to pick it.
This film is part of a wider series of daily updates in which we followed walkers from London, Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, journeying with them as they connected with local projects and communities along the way to shine a light on the fantastic local initiatives that people are undertaking around our country. The full team involved shooting with a director, on-site editor, producer, photographer, PR and a daily social media push to drum up interest and grow audiences in this important project, as part of Eden Communities’ wider projects that still run today.
Sponsorship from Renault.
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