and more about the straight 8 connections below the trailer
straight 8 community involved in making the film include
ROGER BATTEAULT INSPIRATION AND FILMMAKER CONTRIBUTOR - FRANCE ROGER SUBMITTED INCREDIBLE NATURE FOCUSSED STRAIGHT 8 FILMS SINCE 2016, REGULARLY MAKING THE TOP 8 SELECTIONS. HIS 2019 STRAIGHT 8 NATURE HUNTER IS THE ONE THAT INSPIRED ED TO WANT TO MAKE A GLOBAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM OF NATURE ON SUPER 8. HIS SON, STRAIGHT8ER REMY BATTEAULT FILMED A SEQUENCE WITH HIS FATHER FOR THE FILM, IN BEAUNE, FRANCE AND FACILITATED ROGER’S INVOLVEMENT
ED SAYERS DIRECTOR PRODUCER EDITOR ED FOUNDED STRAIGHT 8 IN 1999 OUT OF A BELIEF THAT SUPER 8 WAS AN EXCITING FORMAT NOT JUST FOR HOME MOVIES BUT FOR ‘CINEMA’. THIS LATEST ESCAPADE TAKES THAT IDEA A BIG STEP FURTHER. SUPER NATURE IS HIS FIRST FEATURE LENGTH FILM. on his first shoot in norfolk, he called on serial straight8er of the naughties, nick rutter, to come and film him/with him. check out one of nick’s straight 8’s the yorkshire rapper from 2004
Carlotta Beck Peccoz filmmaker contributor - italy A STRAIGHT8ER SINCE 2020, SHE FILMED THE IBEX SCENE IN VALLE D’AOSTA AND she and DOP timothy wood GOT ENGAGED ON THE SHOOT! ❤️ see carlotta’s 2020 straight 8 film: a portrait
TOM MERILION FILMMAKER CONTRIBUTOR - FRANCE AN OG STRAIGHT8ER FROM 1999, HE FILMED GEESE IN SLOWMO FROM A MICROLIGHT WITH HIS THEN 13 YEAR OLD SON AS 2ND CAMERA. SEE HIS 1999 STRAIGHT 8 ‘I WISH I COULD FLY’ HERE SOON
FRASER JOHNSTON FILMMAKER CONTRIBUTOR - TASMANIA, AUS FRASER DOP’D SOME COMEDY STRAIGHT 8 FILMS BACK IN THE DAY BUT HIS DAY JOB IS WILDLIFE FILMMAKER. HE FILMED A WEEDY SEA DRAGON SEQUENCE
REBECCA WOLFF PRODUCER PRODUCED A FEW STRAIGHT 8 FILMS SINCE 2018, SATAN’S BITE. ED SAYERS BROUGHT THE PROJECT TO HER EARLY ON AND THEY’VE BEEN WORKING ON IT EVER SINCE
BETH ALLAN PRODUCER PRODUCED FOREST OF BLACK’S STRAIGHT 8 FILM OF 2017 HARD COFFEE. SO WHEN WE WERE LOOKING FOR A SCOTLAND BASED CO-PRODUCER, BETH AND FOB WERE A NATURAL CHOICE
JASON BRADURY TRAILER EDITOR WHEN BFI DISTRIBUTION SENT LINKS TO VARIOUS TRAILER EDITOR FOLK TO ED, ONE NAME JUMPED OUT! JASON IS ONE OF THE BEST IN THE UK AND IS A PAST STRAIGHT8ER - YOU’VE SEEN HIS EDITING ON THE TRAILER ABOVE, NOW SEE THE TOP 8 STRAIGHT 8 HE DIRECTED IN 2018 alone, my friend
ALEX GLYNN SPECIALISED RIGS AND SETUPS ALEX FROM STRAIGHT 8 BROUGHT HIS INGENUITY TO SOME SPECIAL SETUPS SUCH AS THE KOYAANISQATSI-ESQUE TIME-LAPSE SEQUENCE IN BANGKOK ED WANTED TO CAPTURE. SPECIAL KIT WAS SENT TO THAILAND AND ALEX SUPPORTED THE FILMMAKERS THERE AS THEY TESTED AND SHOT
OLLIE BIRT FILMMAKER CONTRIBUTOR - AUSTRALIA OLLIE MADE HIS FIRST STRAIGHT 8 AT THE TENDER AGE OF 17 AND MADE THE CANNES TOP 8 WITH RUMOURS. WITH HIS QUIRKY COMEDIC APPROACH HE WAS THE NATURAL CHOICE FOR ED FOR A SCENE WITH KANGAROOS BEHAVING LIKE THEY’RE IN A WES ANDERSON FILM
CINELAB FILM & DIGITAL PROFESSIONAL MOTION PICTURE LABORATORY IT’S NO EXAGGERATION TO SAY THIS FILM MAY NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT ADRIAN BULL AND HIS WHOLE TEAM’S SUPPPORT AT CINELAB FILM & DIGITAL, WHO’VE ALSO SUPPORTED STRAIGHT 8 SINCE 2016. WE COULD WRITE A WHOLE PAGE ON THIS ALONE, AND MAY IN FACT DO SO. ADRIAN BULL (CEO) IS AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ON SUPER NATURE
dice rose FILMMAKER CONTRIBUTOR - USA dice made her first straight 8 in love in 2018 - it was top 8, screening in cannes. when ed needed to make a proof of concept he approached dice and karan (see below) to try out filming a nature story close to their homes on super 8. dice’s somewhat aborted attempt to film desert quail in joshua tree is followed up in the film by a sequence with a volunteer snake rescuer in mojave desert
Karan talwar filmmaker contributor - india although karan hasn’t ever made a straight 8, he and his company harkat studios in mumbai have been collaborating for years on getting indian straight 8 submissions, so ed asked him if he was up for trying a little nature shoot right at the start, and with his team, they created a meditative sequence featuring water buffalo. simran of harkat later went on to create another sequence about her on/off relationship with monkeys, filmed in new delhi
Lucia valdemoros & Agustin bArrutiA filmmaker contributors - argentina director & dOP team and life partners lucia and agustin first came to the straight 8 family in 2016 with their stunning top 25 film ser agua. based in buenos aires, ed and becca asked them to get involved and soon they were off to patagonia armed with super 8 cameras - many of which did not survive!
asif kapadia executive producer asif needs no introduction but here’s his IMDB PAGE. he was a member of the inaugural straight 8 jury which we instated in 2016 and has served on our top 8 jury for many years since. when ed told him this idea he basically said YES - we need to celebrate the birds and the insects on the biggest screens we can while we still have them. from that day he was an EP on the film, which gave it a huge helping hand
many other straight8ers had a hand in some key shoots but don’t feature prominently in the story, like maria chambers who filmed forest fires in portugal, and christos kardana who captured some underwater shots and helped get to grips with the much used eumig nautica early on, and more. many more.
jess search a special mention for jess of BFI Doc Society who in 2004 commissioned straight 8 to make ‘straight 8 on tv’ for Channel 4 at her previous job. Jess was all over the idea for super nature, as only Jess could be! (RIP Jess - your enthusiasm and focus will never be forgotten.)
many members of the global super 8 community had a hand in making sure this could happen it’s another ecosystem
adrian cousins FILMMAKER CONTRIBUTOR - LONDON MASTER WIZARD OF HOME PROCESSING FILM CHEMISTRY, MANY OF YOU WILL KNOW ADRIAN ‘ADY’ COUSINS ALREADY. HE APPEARS IN A SCENE EARLY IN THE FILM, THAT ED FILMED WITH HIM IN A GRAVEYARD NEAR HIS HOME IN SOUTH LONDON A LONG WAY FOR ED PSYCHOLOGICALLY FROM NORTH LONDON. SAVING SOME PRECIOUS EXPIRED AGFACHROME 40 FOR THE PURPOSE, ED ASKED ADRIAN TO PROCESS THE ROLLS HIMSELF - WHICH HE DID WITH A LOVELY BLUE TINGE
pro8mm - björn andersson - FRANK AT SUPER 8 REVERSAL - BEN SLOTOVER - CAMERACRATE - JAMIE NOAKES - ivan cordeiro - rencontres. - MORE - MORE - MORE