About
CASATARANTULA is a Colombian multi-awarded film production company committed to producing and coproducing films for the international market that challenge the way we perceive reality and understand life. Specializing in creative documentaries, it combines the experience of Clare Weiskopf and Nicolas van Hemelryck, who have worked for more than 15 years in the design, development and production of audiovisuals.
Most of our films are coproductions which we either lead as producers or support as co-producers. We have coproduced with Romania, Chile, France, US, Brazil and Scotland. Our films have been awarded in festivals like Berlinale, Chicago, Sheffield, Torino, Guadalajara, Biarritz, Bogotshorts, Lima and Cartagena, and nominated at the Goya Awards for the Best Iberoamerican Film (Spain), at the Fenix Awards (Latin America), and have won 3 Colombian Academy Awards (Macondo).
Our work has been supported by Sundance, Catapult, Ibermedia, IDFA Bertha Fund, Chicken & Egg, Tribeca, Señal Colombia, Harvard University, SCAM, SACEM, the Colombian Film Fund-Proimagenes and the Romanian Film Center.
Our projects have been selected for EAVE Producers Workshop, La Fabrique Cinema-Cannes, Dok Incubator, IDFAcademy, GoodPitch, Campus Latino/Doc Campus, Tribeca-TFI Network, and IFP Documentary Week.
We are members of the Colombian Film Academy, Cinema 23, Global Impact Producers, DOC:CO and EAVE.
Founder, Director and Producer
Clare Weiskopf is a colombian filmmaker with a background as a journalist. Clare is interested in exploring taboo subjects in depth, creating intimate stories that build an emotional journey in which fundamental questions arise.
Her latest film ALIS (codirector and producer) has won 27 international awards including Berlinale’s Crystal Bear and Teddy Award. Her debut AMAZONA (codirector and producer) premiered at IDFA and was nominated as Best Ibero-American Film at the Goya Awards. As a journalist she worked on social issues ranging from the armed conflict in Colombia and sexual violence as a weapon of war to the global spread of cumbia music, and she was twice a winner of the Colombian National Journalism Award. Clare has directed several documentaries and doc series for TV channels.
Clare is a founding member of Casatarantula and DOCCO Distribution and Promotion agency. Clare has been a tutor in CreaDoc-MiradasDoc (Spain) and teaches film in several universities. She is frequently invited as an advisor and as a jury in film funds.
Clare Weiskopf
Nicolas van Hemelryck Rodriguez
Founder, Producer and Director
Nicolas is a colombian filmmaker with a background as an architect and photographer. His work explores storytelling as the basis of collective ‘meaning-making’ and thus, of our behavior and relationship with everything around us.
His latest film ALIS (codirector and producer) has won 27 international awards including Berlinale’s Crystal Bear and Teddy Award. His debut AMAZONA (codirector and producer) premiered at IDFA and was nominated as Best Ibero-American Film at the Goya Awards. As a cinematographer he was nominated for Best Cinematography at the Fenix Awards. As a photographer his work has been exhibited in America, Europe and Asia.
Nicolas co-founded DOCCO Distribution and Promotion Agency and Casatarantula where he has been in charge of all productions. He has been a film advisor and professor at EICTV (Cuba) and in various national film schools, and has been a jury member for film competitions. Nicolas is an EAVE graduate and a member of the Collective Change Lab Community of Practice.
Production Manager
Producer with experience in the management of fiction and documentary series, features and short films. Among her projects are the Production Management for the feature documentary ALIS with more than 15 awards at international festivals; the Production of the documentary series Y DÓNDE ES EL PARTIDO, CPB National Journalism Award (Colombia 2019) and Premios TAL Best Journalistic Program (Montevideo 2019); the Production of the transmedia project TRIBUGA: OXIDO EN EL PARAISO, nominated in the Gabo Festival 2022. Laura has worked in the Production of several feature films such as VERS LA BATAILLE, ANNA, HOMO BOTANICUS, NO TODO ES VIGILIA, and as Head of Production of the series SIN LA LUZ PERPETUA and LA CUMBRE, both supported by the Ministry of Technology. Laura was also part of the production of the series NARCOS (3rd Season) among other projects.
Laura Taborda
Financial and Administrative Accountant
Accountant with experience in finance, resource management and legal documentation in cultural industries. Her skills in the economic sector have allowed her to perform tasks such as resource optimization, cost and expense reduction, legalization of incentives such as the Colombian Film Development Fund, application in national and international calls for proposals and specialist in benefits granted by the orange economy. She has been in charge of finance and administration for more than six years for recognized companies in the audiovisual sector such as the post-production houses 2.35 Digital and Sonata Films, the production companies 16A13 Producciones, Salmón Producciones, Min Company, and Cresta Films, and DOCCO Promotion and Distribution Agency. Currently, she is the financial and administrative accountant of the production company Casatarantula.
Daniela Jurado
Editor
An anthropologist and filmmaker, Gustavo Vasco has worked as an editor on multiple film and television projects that have traveled the world in various festivals and exhibition platforms. In the documentary field he has worked on films like "Todo comenzó por el fin" by Luis Ospina (TIFF), "Señorita María, la falda de la montaña" by Rubén Mendoza (Locarno), and "Suspensión" by Simón Uribe (IDFA). He was the chief editor of the Netflix original documentary "Diomedes, el ídolo, el misterio y la tragedia". In the field of fiction, he edited "Somos Calentura", by Jorge Navas, the series "Camionero" by Jacques Toulemonde for Studio+, the Netflix original series "Frontera Verde" and the Movistar Play original series "Ruido Capital". He also edited with Sebastian Hernandez "Los reyes del mundo", the most recent film by Laura Mora (Concha de oro, San Sebastián 2022). He has served as a professor at several local universities and at the International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He is a founding member of the Colombian Film Festival in Paris "El perro que ladra" and is a founding member of the Colombian Association of film editors E.C.C.A.
He participates as a creative consultant in almost all of Casatarantula's films and was the editor of AMAZONA and ALIS.