Colin Butfield

Colin Butfield

Colin is the co-founder and Director of the production company Open Planet Studios. He has worked on numerous documentaries and short films including the BBC series Earthshot, Netflix features A Life on Our Planet and Breaking Boundaries and the National Geographic feature documentary David Attenborough: Ocean.
He also founded the non-profit initiative openplanet.org which provides free to use, open-source footage allowing anyone, anywhere to tell the stories of our changing planet to their audience, in their language from their perspective.
He is the co-author Earthshot and author of the Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness

Upcoming Events

BLF 2025
Colin Butfield
Ocean: Screening, Talk & Q&A with Director Colin Butfield
Wednesday, 2 July 2025 | 19:00 – 22:00
Pictureville Cinema, National Science and Media Museum, BD1 1NQ
Film, Global Futures
Event Reference: BF001