Project Wild Thing

Filmmaker David Bond tries to connect kids of the digital age with the great outdoors in this documentary, using common marketing strategies in order to ‘sell’ nature.

Bond is concerned. His kids' waking hours are dominated by a cacophony of marketing, and a screen dependence threatening to turn them into glassy-eyed zombies. Like city kids everywhere, they spend way too much time indoors - not like it was back in his day. He decides it's time to get back to nature - literally. In an attempt to compete with the brands, which take up a third of his daughter's life, Bond appoints himself Marketing Director for Nature. Like any self-respecting salesman, he sets about developing a campaign and a logo. With the help of a number of bemused professionals, he is soon selling Nature to British families. His humorous journey unearths some painful truths about modern family life. His product is free, plentiful and has proven benefits - but is Nature past its sell-by date?

Previously, Bond attempted to disappear from the public eye in his 2010 film Erasing David, doing so as an experiment to see how private companies and the government would react.

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