A global co-creation project, Super Nature saw Ed Sayers collaborating with 40 people who appear in the film,filming 6 miles of Super 8 film on 80 different antique cameras, on land, in the air, and underwater. They would decide together the stories of nature close to them and their hearts, that they would tell, all with as little travel as possible. Super Nature celebrates our universal connection to nature with an intimate gaze, creating a visceral, poetic, intimate meditation on the natural world.

Captured by a combination of professional filmmakers and local enthusiasts alike, including contributions from world renowned flood and fire photographer Gideon Mendel; National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale; big wave surfer and UNESCO Champion for the Ocean Maya Gabeira; the Enawene Nawe tribe of the Brazilian rainforest; and the underwater museums of artist Jason deCaires Taylor.

Scored with diverse music and accompanied by voices in 11 different languages, Super Nature sees a growing network of makers take to this antique format, to share images, thoughts and philosophies in a gentle, beguiling way. A fresh take on the most important subject there is. Directed by Ed Sayers - founder of the global Super 8 filmmaking competition Straight 8 - alongside producers Rebecca Wolff (Grand Theft Hamlet) and Beth Allan. Executive Producer Asif Kapadia. 

Shanida Scotland, Doc Society Co-director and Head of Film, said: “Super Nature is at once a love letter to film and to the epic qualities and wonder of the natural world. An intimate and deeply collaborative film, Super Nature is bold experiential cinema that the BFI Doc Society Fund is incredibly proud to support.”