Audiovisual Lab

Meet the scholarship recipients of the third Audiovisual Lab of the 2025 Santiago Wild Film Festival, which will take place in Africa as part of the NEWF Festival in the city of Durban, South Africa.

From March 17 to April 6, over the course of 15 days, participants will take part in an immersive experience with industry professionals in a lab focused on marine and underwater topics. This year, the call was conducted internally among alumni of previous Santiago Wild Labs and the National Geographic Explorers network.

From more than 600 applicants from 34 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, 12 scholarship recipients of the second Santiago Wild Audiovisual Lab worked with experts from May 7 to 14 during a 7-day intensive program at the Explora Torres del Paine Conservation Reserve in Chilean Patagonia. Under extreme weather conditions, they created three micro-documentaries, which were screened at the Festival.

Santiago Wild held its first Audiovisual Lab from March 23 to 30, during which 12 scholarship recipients participated in an 8-day program learning from leaders in the audiovisual industry about audiovisual production and science communication at the Huilo-Huilo Biological Reserve, in Chile’s Los Ríos Region.

Participants were also challenged to apply what they learned by producing three micro-documentaries, which were presented at the Santiago Wild Festival.