Belgium-based nWave Pictures has acquired the worldwide distribution rights to Hurricane, a giant screen 3D documentary produced by Ouragan Films.

The 40-minute film will debut in October at the Giant Screen Cinema Association Conference in Toronto, Canada.

Hurricane is the journey of a weather system, fuelled by a force so powerful that it was revered as a deity by ancient civilisations. From a sudden howling sand storm in Senegal heralding the coming monsoon, the winds transform over the Atlantic Ocean into a raging monster five hundred miles across.

The awe-inspiring journey sees ships being tossed on growing ocean swells, and the violent winds and torrential rains of Hurricane Lucy crashing into the rainforests of the Caribbean before causing immense storm surges in the Gulf of Mexico.

Filmed on location over a five-year period. The film will be released in Imax and DCI-compliant cinemas worldwide later this year.