wilder@commonhearthfilm.com
Clients: Alliance for Economic Democracy, Art at Work, Co-operative Maine Business Alliance, Cooperative Development Institute, Bowdoin College, Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Compass Light Productions, Conservation Media Group, Greenhorns, Gulf of Maine ECOARTS, Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership, Kairos Earth, Kroka Expeditions, Local Futures, Maine Audubon Society, MAINEUSA, Maine Service Employee Association, Manomet, Midcoast Indigenous Awareness Group, Prout Alliance, Systems Change Alliance, U.S. Forest Service, Village Canoe, Wild Philanthropy, and Woodard & Curran Foundation.
Wilder Nicholson is a documentary filmmaker and activist based in Marshall, North Carolina, land of the Aniyuwiya, or commonly known as the Cherokee. Wilder earned a BA from Bowdoin College and began environmental storytelling in 2014 with his hometown land trust. In 2015, Wilder directed and edited Mindful Travel in Ladakh with a Thomas McKinley Grant, and in 2017 and 2018 co-produced Nature Moments–a 40 part series with the Davis Conservation Foundation and Maine Audubon. From 2016 to 2020, Wilder worked as a Conservation Media Group Fellow and produced a series of sustainability films with Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership. Wilder studied at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in 2018 and 2019, and mentors new filmmakers with a developing media cooperative, Beauty of Change Studios.