Back to Nature
Listen to Country, hear its stories
Back to Nature is a visually stunning documentary series featuring two storytellers guiding viewers through the wonder and awe of the Australian landscape.
Back to Nature explores stories that reconnect the audience with the natural world and with Country. Both yearning to reconnect with nature themselves, actor Aaron Pedersen and writer Holly Ringland take the audience on a journey into the deep interconnectedness between human beings and the landscape, exploring geology, history, natural science, mystery, spirituality, and First Nations’ knowledge. Back to Nature is a co-production with Threshold Pictures.
Awards
Nominee | 2021 | Screen Producers Australia | Documentary Program or Series Production of the Year
Nominee | 2022 | Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) | Natural World Documentary
Nominee | 2022 | Australian Directors’ Guild | Best Direction in a TV or SVOD Documentary Series Episode or Documentary One-Off
Watch it
Stream on ABC iview
Screen it
International – please contact the distributor, Escapade Media.
Australia – please contact ABC Content Sales
Teach it
Use our complimentary study guides for primary and high school students.
About this production
8 x 30-min documentary series l ABC
Producer(s): Rebecca Barry, Madeleine Hetherton-Miau, and Jane Manning
Series Producer: Jane Manning
Director(s): Kimberley Benjamin, Dena Curtis, Jane Manning, Sophie Wiesner
Executive Producer: Aaron Pedersen
Production year: 2021
“This is the magic of slow TV, able to transport viewers from wherever they’re watching and drop them into an alternative, and slower, universe.”
Sydney Morning Herald
“What I want to come out of Back to Nature is people finding themselves again, and believing that Earth is the best medicine.”
Aaron Pedersen
“Gives the audience the experience of being fully immersed in nature, not just a bystander.”
Karen Hardy, Canberra Times
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