The Wild Indie
Sci-fi & Fantasy Film Festival
The Wild Indie Sci-fi & Fantasy Film Festival continues to celebrate our favourite genres of film.
VISIT WISFFF ↗STORIES.
WORLDS.
POSSIBILITIES.
Independent film, virtual production and creative technology.
EXPLORE ↓02 /
FILM
Stories worth telling.
Narrative. Documentary. Factual. Promotional. Genre.
SCIENCE / DOCUMENTARY
BEFORE WE BUILT WORLDS,
WE EXPLORED ONE.
Wild Indie's roots are in science, conservation and documentary storytelling.
VIRTUAL PRODUCTION
BUILD
WORLDS.
Virtual production, Unreal Engine, performance capture and emerging creative technologies.
When were introduced to Virtual Production by the “Digital Catapult”, a lockdown initiative designed to increase industry skillsets, we took to it like ducks to water. Now we use VP and some AI tools in our productions, teach it, encourage others to use it where it would work for their productions. We are a firm believer in informed knowledge.
Technology is the tool.
Storytelling is the point.
CURRENT PROJECT
SHORT FILM —
SVEN
An industry collaboration, Sven is a virtual production short film bringing together industry, technology and education partners. Alongside the film, the collaboration will produce outcomes for industry and education.
The studio is booked and casting is underway as of late September 2026. A Viking epic in the making, its story serves as a prologue or pilot for a planned episodic series.
COMMUNITY
FILMS ARE BETTER
WHEN PEOPLE MAKE
THEM TOGETHER.
The Wild Indie
Let’s Make Films
Let’s Make Films. It’s a simple idea. Gather a bunch of like-minds and create a network of people who want to; Make film and learn how to make better films.
VISIT LET’S MAKE FILMS ↗
ABOUT WILD INDIE CREATIVE
CURIOUS BY NATURE.
FILMMAKER BY CHOICE.
Wild Indie, and latterly Wild Indie Creative and WISFFF, were founded by filmmaker, director, producer, and educator Gavin Saville, whose career has crossed the boundaries between science and conservation, documentary and narrative filmmaking, Virtual Production and emerging technology.
Gavin has taught film and production skills for Barking & Dagenham College, Ravensbourne University and the VP and AI Skills Bootcamp, supported by the Mayor of London and delivered by IN4 Group, alongside other institutions and industry programmes. His teaching now focuses particularly on filmmaking, Virtual Production and emerging production technologies.
His background is deliberately eclectic. He has is a scientist and conservationist. He has taught Historical European Martial Arts and taught marine and terrestrial conservation survey techniques. He co-founded the London filmmaking and networking group Let’s Make Films; founded and runs the science-fiction and fantasy film festival WISFFF; published scientific papers and science-fiction stories; consulted on species action plans; and choreographed action and fight sequences for film. The creation of a builder and a dressmaker, he’ll happily help build a school annex in Mexico, or make sets and props.
He currently works as a filmmaker, director, producer, and educator, bringing together creative storytelling, technology and a scientist’s instinct for research and problem-solving. He consults on a number of topics. A bit of a polymath, a technologist, and still happiest when sitting in a director’s chair.
GET IN TOUCH ↗SELECTED COLLABORATORS / WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
DREAM ENGINE / PBS / NASA-SETI / UNEP / XENOQUEST MEDIA / MOUSETRAP / ENGLISH NATURE / UNIVERSITIES / CREATIVE PARTNERS / more.