Kimera Films

Science and environmental documentary production

Kimera Films is an audiovisual production company specializing in science and environmental documentaries. It produces and collaborates on documentaries, feature films, and special sequences, combining cinematic storytelling with technical rigor.

Field production and technical capabilities

The company emphasizes its experience filming in the natural world and in extreme environments. Its crews bring together field naturalists and scientists and use long-range telephoto lenses, remote monitoring systems, drones, ultralight aircraft, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) rated to 200 meters below sea level, and digital cinema cameras with underwater housings. The team includes technical divers and ROV operators.

Production services

• Audiovisual project design, production, and direction
• Cinematography
• Screenwriting, filming, and postproduction
• Special-sequence production for documentaries
• Original documentary and feature-film production

Locations and experience

Kimera Films has worked in tropical forests, on glacier peaks, in mountains, moorlands, deserts, and oceans across Madagascar, the Seychelles, Egypt, Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Indonesia, the Philippines, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Madeira, the Azores, the Canary Islands, and major ecosystems of the Iberian Peninsula and Mediterranean basin. The company is based in Mallorca.

Founding team

Co-founder Rubén Casas is a director, filmmaker, screenwriter, and cinematographer specializing in natural history, sustainability, and natural resources. The company says he has more than 20 years of experience and over 10,000 hours of diving. Alberto Díaz is CFO and executive producer, a computer engineer, and a technical-diving instructor. Paco Roldán is a specialist technician and underwater camera operator. Jordi Encinas is a camera operator and naturalist who regularly collaborates with organizations including FVSM, SEO/BirdLife, GOB, COFIB, and the University of Alcalá.

Selected projects

Kimera Films’ work includes the documentaries 1,17 Ibiza y la Mar, El mecanismo invisible, Secretos salvajes de Baleares, Sanidad forestal, and El archipiélago indómito. It has also collaborated on productions such as MareNostrum, El señor de la noche, and El fantasma del bosque. In 2025, it announced the project Somos Agua; in 2026, it announced the premiere of El silencio de Ibiza.