WHALELANDS: Into the World of Giants

IMAX® 40'· Broadcast 60'· Apple Vision Pro 5'· All rights available

An IMAX feature from a team with credits across BBC Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Green Planet and Dynasties.

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The Film

Synopsis

Whalelands is an IMAX® journey into the living world of whales, filmed over seven years across Antarctica, Baja California, California, Northern Norway, Patagonia, and the South Pacific.

Through extraordinary behaviors, from communication and play to migration, maternal care, and predation, the film reveals whales as complex societies shaped by instinct, cooperation, and survival.

Captured with exceptional proximity and cinematic power, Whalelands is a giant-screen immersion into the beauty, intimacy, and raw force of life at sea.

Five Worlds, One Ocean

The expedition

Seven years of filming, plotted across the planet's great whale frontiers. Select a waypoint.

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Key Art

The world editions

Patagonia · South Pacific · Baja California · Northern Norway · Antarctica

Immersive · Apple Vision Pro

WhaleLens

A spatial-computing companion built for Apple Vision Pro, WhaleLens brings audiences inside the world of whales in first person, extending the feature into a new immersive medium and a second screen for the story.

Spatial experience · In development

Feature Film · Private Screening

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The Score

Orchestral recording sessions

Score by Benji Merrison & Will Slater (Green Planet, Dynasties).

Beyond the Film

Not a single release, an ecosystem.

Rollout strategy

Each platform built to feed the next.

Audience development

Proprietary ocean-engaged audience.

Immersive production

Apple Vision Pro companion pieces.

Whalelands II

Sequel in development.

Architecture and rollout details available under NDA.

Director

About the filmmaker

Director · EP · Producer · Cinematographer

Manolo Mendieta

Manolo Mendieta is the founder and executive producer of Spunco Films and Net Zero Expeditions, a vertically integrated operation producing IMAX-scale natural history, immersive media for Apple Vision Pro, and large-scale visual experiences.

With a career spanning two decades, his work bridges natural history production, documentary and underwater cinematography, expedition logistics, and high-end post production. He has collaborated on projects for the BBC Natural History Unit, Netflix, RED Digital Cinema, National Geographic, and Hulu.

Whalelands is the culmination of seven years filming the ocean's greatest giants across five oceans, and is now being positioned for global IMAX distribution.

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