Wild World Films is a division of Wild World Impact Ltd. We create communication with a conscience, specialising in content about ecological restoration, rewilding and sustainability. We focus on telling stories about people who are MAD (Making A Difference), inspiring others to go MAD too. We work with charities, CICs, non-profit organisations, businesses and brands. If your values align with ours we’d love to work with you! Please get in touch.
Wild World Films was founded by Deryck van Steenderen, an environmentalist, writer, filmmaker and photographer. Deryck graduated from Cambridge Universities’ CISL Business Sustainability Management course in 2021. He completed both the BAFTA Albert and AdGreen Sustainable Production training, trained as a Sustainable Production Trainer with AdGreen, completed the IPA Ad Net Zero Essentials Certificate and Diversity and Inclusion Essentials Certificate, and is certified Carbon Literate by the Carbon Literacy Project.
Following time as an aspiring photojournalist while studying photography Deryck then studied Landscape Design and Environmental Management at CPUT in Cape Town, South Africa. He worked in Industrial and Commercial Landscape Design and Construction that included Environmental Rehabilitation and Restoration, including the management of a corporate owned Nature Reserve rehabilitation project.
He then moved into Media and Marcomms working on projects from ATL Advertising to Reality TV and Editorial content. He is a published writer, photographer, filmmaker and marcomms creative. He has worked with and for top international advertising agencies on campaigns for clients like Google, Android, Red Bull, Virgin Holidays, Samsung, Nokia Siemens Network, Sally Hansen, Manor, Revlon, Capita amongst many others.
He sincerely believes that people need to be rewilded as much as ecosystems do, a core focus of his work, as people reconnected to Nature naturally support and protect it.