Super Nature, a love letter to nature created on Super 8 film, to be released on 4 September
Filmed exclusively on the original home movie format and with 80 different antique Super 8 cameras, Ed Sayers’ film celebrates our universal connection to nature.
BFI Distribution is pleased to announce the UK and Ireland theatrical release date for Ed Sayers’ Super Nature – a love letter to nature created on Super 8, by people connecting across the world – as 4 September 2026.
Filmed exclusively on the original home movie format, Super 8, Super Nature proposes a new way of seeing. A celebration of all we have and reflecting on all we have to lose, audiences are invited on a journey across 25 different countries, with people embracing both abundance and loss, to feel a sense of togetherness with our fellow dwellers on earth, human and non-human.
A global co-creation project, Super Nature saw Sayers collaborating with 40 people on 80 different antique Super 8 cameras, across land, in the air, and underwater. They would all decide together the stories of nature close to them and their hearts, that they would tell, all with little travel as possible. Super Nature celebrates our universal connection to nature, with an intimate gaze, creating a visceral, poetic, personal meditation on the natural world.
Captured by a combination of professional filmmakers and local enthusiasts alike, including contributions from world renowned food and fire photographers Gideon Mendel; National Geographic photographer Ati 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 Jason deCaires Taylor.
Scored with diverse music and accompanied with 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. The result is a fresh perspective on the most pressing subject of our times.
Directed by Ed Sayers – founder of the global Super 8 filmmaking competition Straight 8 – alongside producers Rebecca Wolff (Grand Theft Hamlet) and Beth Allan (Since Yesterday) and executive producer Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna).