Dan Pringle

We can finally share the first trailer for Die Before You Die releasing in UK cinemas this September. Link to the full version in my bio ☠️🙏 "Adi BC, a hot-headed influencer finds himself trapped six feet underground after an internet challenge goes dramatically wrong. With no knowledge of the group who buried him and no idea if they will return to dig him up, Adi is sent into a world that will force him to question his very nature." Cast Ziad Abaza @mim_shaikh Priya Blackburn @harryreidactor Falah Hashim Laurent C. Lucas Producer - @adamjmerrifield Exec Producer - Leon Hady Cinematographer - @bensaffer Costume Designer - Sally Winter Production Designer - Sivo Gluck Composer - Nina Humphreys Sound Design - Guy Dowsett, Steve Rafter & Glen Yard Colourist - @jo_barker_colourist Production company - @whitelanternfilm UK distributor - @bulldog_film World sales - @medialunanewfilms

To celebrate Earth Day, here's a short outtakes video of our directors Annie & Dan getting suitably distracted by the wildlife around them whilst *trying* to film the Crowdfunder launch video 😅🎥🦅 We've just five days left of the campaign which ends at 8am on Tuesday 28th April. Help us reach our stretch target 🐺 #earthday🌎 #Rewilding #shortfilm2026 #scottishhighlands #Crowdfunding

To celebrate the film hitting its initial target on Crowdfunder, here's a special wild something. Lead Actress Sophia Di Martino reading two pivotal scenes from the script 🎙️ Just her voice, and the story, as Eilidh embarks on her first walk in The Highlands and encounters an enigmatic wolf 🐺 We're now pushing towards our £22,000 stretch goal that will help make the film even stronger. 13 days left. Link in bio 🎥 @itssophiadimartino @creativescots #rewilding #ShortFilm2026 #crowdfunding #scottishhighlands #RewildingNation

Within twelve days of launching on crowdfunder, The Girl Who Cried Wolf has reached its first funding target of £18,000 thanks to 105 generous supporters and match funding from @creativescots 🥳💯🏆 We now have 16 days to achieve our stretch target of £22,000 to help make the film even better. Our match funding is now locked in at £9,000 so going forwards we will be funded exclusively by new supporters. We'll be sharing more details on this imminently but for now, thank you to all the wild contributors that have joined our pack and helped us to this point. You are awesome 🐺🙌 #Rewilding #rewildingnation #shortfilm2026 #scottishhighlands #Crowdfunding

It's been an incredible first week for the film's crowdfunding campaign. Our total currently sits at 80% with contributions from 82 generous backers and match funding from @creativescots . Here's an Easter Weekend thank you from directors @anniemcbain and @danvspringle 🙏 #Rewilding #shortfilm2026 #Crowdfunding #rewildingnation #scottishhighlands

The Girl Who Cried Wolf is now live. 🌿🐺 Three years ago, we walked through a rewilded landscape in the Scottish Highlands. It changed something in us. Not just what we saw… but what we felt. So, we decided to tell that story… not as a documentary, but as a cinematic, emotional journey about rewilding the land and ourselves. The Girl Who Cried Wolf was directly inspired by the @georgemonbiot book Feral and having shared the script with him, we feel honoured to have his blessing. It will also star acclaimed actress @itssophiadimartino in the lead role of Eilidh. And now we need your help to bring it to life. Thanks to @creativescots every donation up to £250 is match funded, doubling your impact. If this project speaks to you, we invite you to support the film financially, share with someone who cares about nature and help us to build momentum in these first few days. 🔗 Link in bio to donate This film exists because of the people who believe in it. Thank you for being one of them. Let’s bring the wild back 🏞️ Written & Directed by @anniemcbain & @danvspringle Produced by Ayse Jamieson #Rewilding #rewildingnation #scottishhighlands #shortfilm2026 #GeorgeMonbiot

1 Day to go. The crowdfunding campaign for The Girl Who Cried Wolf launches tomorrow at 10am. If you're keen to support a film that champions the restoration of the natural world and the rewilding of ourselves then please consider backing or sharing the campaign with your network. No contribution is too small with Creative Scotland match funding all donations up to £250. Here's co-writer/directors Annie McBain and Dan Pringle providing a taste of what is to come 🐺 #rewilding #ShortFilm2026 #RewildingNation #scottishhighlands

Wishing everyone a wonderful World Rewilding Day 🌍 No beavers to report from Studland...but plenty of good vibes and thankful for every moment, big or small, in which we get to connect with the natural world. Be it a glance at the clouds out the window or a full on stomp up a mountain, they all count and I hope you get your fix today. Here's to a wilder, happier future for people and planet 🙏 @globalrewildingalliance @rewildingeurope @rewildingb @girlwhocriedwolffilm #worldrewildingday #rewilding #scottishfilm #shortfilm #rewildingnation

Annie and I had a right ol' good time filming the intro video for our new film The Girl Who Cried Wolf. It took longer than expected as we had the weather on our side and early Spring wildlife was proving a constant (but pleasant) distraction. At one point we even had to rescue the camera from chewed-up pinecones falling from a tree full of crossbills! The campaign will go live on Tuesday 31st March and we'll be sharing more regular updates between now and then. In the meantime, you can find out more at @girlwhocriedwolffilm #rewilding #naturelovers #shortfilm #wolves #scottishfilm

Wild Wonderings 🏞️ Virtually every day there will be a moment when my mind wanders and I find myself asking some obscure wildlife or ecology themed question. I normally end up down some obscure research rabbit hole and a long way from whatever I'm supposed to be working on! But instead of keeping these all to myself, I'm going to start sharing some of these with you guys in the hope of starting a conversation 😁 #rewilding #conservation #wildwonderings #ecology #naturelovers

Who else loves maps? I’ve been obsessed with them for as long as I can remember. Whenever I travel, I go straight to Google Maps (always in satellite mode, labels off) to try and understand how a landscape fits together. Part of it is curiosity… but a huge part is my love of wilderness and the less-trodden parts of the world. When I was young, we had a National Geographic book called The Last Wild Places. I’d pore over the photos of distant landscapes, but they always felt like fantasy worlds. That changed when I started travelling. Seeing “koala crossing” signs in South Australia, for actual wild koalas, blew my mind. Hearing my uncle in Ontario talk about black bears raiding his camping supplies made wildlife suddenly real. That’s when my map obsession levelled up and I began to understand what intact and fragmented landscapes looked like. I began to recognise where nature was being most affected by us. But here’s the hopeful bit: Rewilding taught me that fragmented landscapes aren’t lost, they’re opportunities. Wildlife thrives when it can move, roam and reconnect across big areas. Projects like Restor and Map of Dreams show this beautifully and let map lovers like me imagine what could be. So I still find myself dreaming… 🌿 How might a beaver travel between English counties? 🐆 Could jaguars one day return to Florida? 🦁 Might Asiatic lions spread beyond the Gujarat? But do you ever look at a map and imagine what lives, or could live, in the wilder spaces? Or how it all connects together? 🗺️✨

After A Patriot collapsed in pre-production, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to make films anymore. For the first time since I was a teenager, I stepped away… and found myself going back to the things that had always quietly held me together. I went back to nature... To being six years old with binoculars around my neck at RSPB Rye Meads. To the thrill of lifting hide shutters and not knowing what wild thing might be waiting. To hedgehogs munching cat food in the garden. To my first buzzard over the (not so wild) M3. To tawny owls walkie talkie twit twooing on a sleepless midnight walk. Somewhere in this reflection, I realised something I’d never fully fully appreciated... Nature isn’t just something I dip in and out of... It’s part of me and I am part of it. And that realisation helped me find my way back to storytelling again, but in a different way, with a different focus. Over the next few months I want to share more of this side of my life… the nature, the wildness, my fascination with everything ecology and rewilding. But for now, and on my 39th birthday, I'd genuinely love to hear your thoughts on this... Did you feel connected to nature as a kid? And has that connection changed as you’ve grown older? 🌿🦉🌳 (Photos mostly taken by my partner in wild adventures @anniemcbain 😊)