Belize · Hotels & resorts · 2021–present
Manta Island Resort
A private island the internet found.
“We would 100% endorse Steel House.”
Charlene Fedoroff: Marketing Director, Manta Island Resort
Partnership
Partner since 2021
Scope
Photography · Film · Aerial & underwater · Social content
Engagement
Repeat projects
Location
Belize
The brief
A private island resort forty miles off the Belize coast. Extraordinary in person, underexposed online, and a location too remote for an agency that doesn’t travel.
The work
We got on the boat. Aerials over the reef, underwater work in it, and on-property photography and film that treat the island like the main character. The library covers everything the marketing team needs: campaign heroes, web imagery, and a deep bench of social-ready cuts.
The results
The program lifted brand awareness an estimated 30–50%, gave the resort its first cohesive visual identity across channels, and produced the imagery the property still leads with today.
How the partnership runs
Expedition shoots: aerial, underwater, and on-property
A living library: campaign heroes down to social-ready cuts
Season over season since 2021: the imagery the resort still leads with
The film
The island, 2024.
The resort's current hero film: the atoll from the air, the overwater villas, the spa. Our third hero film for the island since 2021.
In the feed
Cut for the phone.
Cut vertical for the resort’s feed, from the same trips that produced the stills above.
In the press
Featured in Scuba Diving magazine.
Our film for Manta Island Resort, featured in Scuba Diving magazine, July 2026.
Read the article: “Discover Belize’s Perfect Private Island Escape”
The takeaway
For a luxury property, awareness is the whole funnel. When the content shows what it actually feels like to be there, above and below the waterline, the audience does the distribution for you.
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