Manada | DOC:CO

Jorge Caballero

Technical Telecommunications Engineer. Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Communication. Master's in Interactive Media from the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Generative Art and Computational Creativity. Producer and director at GusanoFilms, with which he has developed many documentaries, earning recognition at prestigious festivals. His works have participated in the official sections of major festivals such as IDFA, Cinema Du Reel, Biarritz, Thessaloniki, and IFF Oslo. He is a two-time winner of the National Documentary Award of Colombia. Coordinator of Expanded Documentary at the Master's in Creative Documentary at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Guest professor at several Ibero-American universities and festivals. His more general productions include projects produced for DOCTV, Señal Colombia, La Xarxa de Televisiones Locales de Catalunya, and Discovery Channel, as well as advertising and museographic projects for several Ibero-American centers.

Victoria Solano

Journalist and documentarian, with experience as a producer at RCN, Canal Capital, and with two independent productions of her own. Her documentary 9.70 received the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award; with this work, she developed an impact strategy that garnered over 1 million viewers in less than a month and led to the modification of the laws her documentary exposed. She made her documentary Sumercé, which was funded by the FDC, IDFA Bertha Fund, and Tribeca Institute, and won the Films 4 Climate award for aligning with four of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

Josephine Landertinger Forero

Film director with an M.A. in Social Communication and Film Studies from Freie Universität Berlin, 2007. She founded Global Eyes Production in 2013. She is a founding partner of DOC:CO. Her medium-length documentary Grenzenlos received recognition from the Berlin City Hall for its efforts in migrant integration in 2011. Her feature film HOME – El país de la ilusión won the BAM Señal Colombia Award 2016, the National Cinemateca IDARTES Award 2016, and was nominated for 'Best Documentary' at the Macondo Awards 2017. She has been a jury member at the Contracorriente Film Festival and at the IDARTES Documentary Call. She holds a diploma in Fiction Film Directing from Congo Films School, obtained in 2018. She currently works as a film and TV director.

Clare Weiskopf

Director, producer, and journalist. For more than ten years, she has worked on audiovisual projects covering a wide range of topics, such as the armed conflict in Colombia, sexual violence as a weapon of war in the Balkans, teenage pregnancy in Bogotá, and the diaspora of cumbia worldwide. She has received the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award twice. Her debut feature AMAZONA received the IDFA Bertha Fund, the Tribeca Film Institute’s Latin Fund, and the Film Development Fund from Proimágenes. She is a founding partner of CASA TARÁNTULA. As a producer, she is currently developing the documentary projects No soy yo quien grita by Yira Plazas O’Byrne and Sueños by Alex Fattal.

Nicolás van Hemelryck

Producer, photographer, and architect. Co-founder of Casatarántula, where he currently produces and co-produces several feature films. His debut feature Amazona (producer, DP, sound, and co-director) received, among other accolades, the Audience Award at FICCI 2017 (Colombia) and was nominated for a Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film. He is a member of EAVE, the Colombian Academy of Cinematographic Sciences and Arts, Cinema23, and DOC:CO. As a director of photography and photographer, he has won several major awards. He frequently participates in markets and meetings around the world.

Carol Ann Figueroa

Chronicler, screenwriter, filmmaker, and writer. She studied Journalism at the University of La Sabana, film at the International School of Cinema in Cuba, and holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from the National University. Her projects include the documentary feature films Paciente, La Gorgona Historias Fugadas, and 16memorias. She has developed content for Discovery, Paka Paka, MTV, RTVC, and Caracol, among others. She is the author of the book Sala de Espera, received the Simón Bolívar Journalism Award for her chronicle ‘Una cretina llamada Elisa’, and has contributed to magazines such as Semana, Arcadia, Kinetoscopio, Malpensante, and Número. She is the creator of the YouTube channel La Píldora.

Luisa Sossa H

Producer and audiovisual filmmaker with over 15 years of experience. She focuses on documentary cinema. She directed her debut feature Inés. Recuerdos de una vida, which premiered in 2014 at the Cartagena Film Festival. She has worked as a producer, screenwriter, assistant director, camerawoman, and director of documentaries for various organizations such as RCN TV, Discovery Channel, Señal Colombia, Canal Capital, Oxfam, UNHCR (UN), the Women and Gender Observatory of the Presidency, Lula Films, Gusano Films, and Making Docs, among others.

Aseneth Suárez Ruiz

She studied documentary production and filmmaking at ESCAC in Barcelona, where she co-directed the documentary Un día más (2002), and worked as a production assistant on the documentary 270 Miles to Graceland: Bonnaroo 2003 by Danny Clinch. She won the PARES call from the European Union to create the documentary Mujeres en la Cumbre (2009). Currently, her documentary project CLARA, which won a production grant from FDC (2016) and a development scholarship from the Bogliasco Foundation (2015), is in the post-production stage. In television, she won the Crea Digital scholarship in 2016 with the animated series project Cuentazos con Efectazos (2016), where she currently works as a creative producer. She worked at Señal Colombia as the executive producer overseeing projects for the channel (2016 and 2017). She was a videographer and reporter in Eastern Europe for the transmedia project En Órbita (2013 and 2014). She was the director/camerawoman for the documentary series Voces de Familia (2007) and served as the general producer for the award-winning documentary series Banderas en Marte (2004-2006).

Patrick Alexander

Director, assistant director, sound engineer, and translator. He studied literature and cultural studies. He has taught writing, literature, film, and media in Hungary, the United States, Colombia, and Turkey. He was an assistant director for El Mágico by Camilo Ortiz (2006) and A Colombia by Ryan Byrne (2006), and an associate editor for the documentary Hungarian Kerítés by Daniel Kresmery (2015). As director of Parador Húngaro (2014), he won the Audience Award at the Jameson CineFest in Hungary and at the Arco Iris Radio Bio Bio during the XXXI Latin American Film Festival in Trieste. He is a translator for scripts and audiovisual projects, with notable work on the films Sumercé, Homobotanicus, Budapest Noir, Papa Pia, and Rabid. He is currently working on the post-production of his second documentary as a director, Travels with the Spy for Love.

Andrea Said

Producer and director of audiovisual content since 2000. She began her career as a documentary filmmaker with the Varan Workshops. Through academic experiences, she made the documentary shorts La Terapia del Pelo, Viejas, Pulque y Peleas (2004) (exhibited on alternative platforms), and Temps du Refuge (2007), which was the result of a 5sur5 Residency Grant in Belgium. She is a producer of the project Parador Húngaro, which won the short documentary award from the Film Development Fund in 2012. Currently, along with her partner Aseneth Suárez Ruiz and their company Maquina Andante Media Lab, she seeks to develop documentary projects with a focus on new production formats and distribution platforms. They are co-producing the documentary Clara, which won the Film Development Fund in 2016. In parallel, she has worked on five episodes for the series La Paz Silenciosa in 2016 for Señal Institucional. She was a director for the program Cinco Maneras de Reconocer a un Colombiano and a General Producer for the educational TV series Banderas en Marte, produced by Unimedios and broadcast by Señal Colombia in 2005.