DEREK VS DEREK

The idyllic English countryside. An intensive dairy farmer called Derek. One day his neighbour, also a Derek, forsakes tradition and starts to turn his land over to wild nature sparking a long-running feud. This film charts the two Derek's turbulent often funny relationship as tempers fray, wild animals escape, and the land is transformed.

One Derek believes in intensive farming and is hellbent on producing industrially farmed food whatever the cost, the other is creating a haven for nature. Not content with digging hundreds of ponds and having wild boar turf up his fields, ‘rewilding’ Derek (Gow) is breeding a host of nearly extinct native wildlife to release once the land is ‘healed’. And he’s got beavers damming up his farm’s waterways.

Through DEREK VS DEREK, the BAFTA, Rose D’Or and Grierson award-winning director James Damer Dawson explores what the land is for - food production or saving nature?