Iberia and Savannah: A Wild Life is the new wildlife documentary from Azor Producciones in collaboration with Onza, and distributed by Onza Distribution.
Azor Producciones, in collaboration with Onza, presents its latest production, Iberia and Savannah: A Wild Life. This ambitious 4K bluechip documentary establishes fascinating connections between two seemingly distant ecosystems: the Iberian dehesa and the African savannah. The documentary will premiere this 2025 on RTVE and will be presented during Mip London.
During its 52 minutes, the documentary explores the existence of extraordinary parallelism between these two worlds separated by thousands of kilometers and how they function in an astonishingly similar way, harboring species that have developed parallel survival strategies.
“I had always heard of the landscape of the Iberian dehesa as an environment very similar to that of an African savannah, and I was very young when I saw it,” says Eduardo Barrachina, the film’s director. “However, I only thought it was a landscape issue, but it wasn’t. The similarities between the two ecosystems are very similar. The similarities between the two ecosystems go far beyond that.”
Iberia and Savannah: A Wild Life is particularly notable for showing the parallelism in the lives and behavior of very similar species that inhabit different ecosystems, such as foxes, jackals, deer, Thompson’s gazelles, genets, Iberian wolves, wild boars, and warthogs. The climate, the orography, and even the appearance of the landscape itself condition the lives of its inhabitants, and they adapt to its demands.
“This is the reason why the similarity between the dehesa and the savannah goes beyond the purely aesthetic,” says Barrachina. The documentary focuses mainly on the lives of an Iberian lynx and a leopard, following them from cubs to adulthood, offering a unique perspective on their lives and adaptations.
“We are delighted to be involved in the production of Iberia and Savannah: A Wild Life. Bluechip documentaries are undoubtedly one of the biggest niches in the international documentary market,” says Gonzalo Sagardía, CEO of Onza. “At Onza Distribution, we want to develop a great catalogue around this genre, which has traditionally enjoyed great strength and stability in the market.”
Iberia and Savannah: A Wild Life is distributed internationally by Onza Distribution and will be presented as one of its major new releases at MIP London, which runs from 23 to 27 February.
This title joins the Spanish distributor’s growing list of nature documentaries that have recently achieved important sales: sales: A Whale’s Worth was sold to TV Monaco; The Wind Sentries was acquired by RTP Portugal; and Wild Tales of Madrid was sold to China (CCTV), Poland, and Portugal (RTP).
