Vannel Productions is an audiovisual production company based in Caracas, Venezuela led by auteur filmmaker Joanna Nelson, dedicated to the production of fiction and documentary content.
Joanna is a writer, producer, director from Venezuela, who has spent the last ten years between Europe and her home country and is currently based in Caracas. Her fifteen minute social drama Harina (2018), a fictionalized portrayal of the food shortages in her home country, was screened at over 60 film festivals in over 24 countries (Tampere, Cartagena, Guadalajara, Japan), and received numerous awards, such as first prize at the acclaimed 44th Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva and jury mention at 34th Interfilm Berlin. Harina was acquired by HBO.
Hunger (2024), her debut feature film, an ambitious Ibero-American co-production that narrates the situation of migration in Venezuela, had a successful route in development labs such as MFIScript2Film, CineQuaNon, FEST Pitching Forum, and received production grants (Ibermedia, Corfo, MIC). The film will premiere in 2024. Joanna is currently developing a documentary on violence towards Venezuelan migrant women titled Refugee Road (2025) and is also working on the screenplay of an erotic thriller to be set amid the Venezuelan petrol economy titled Selina (2026).
With a degree in economics and management from Jacobs University in Germany and a drive for project management, Joanna has also worked for innovative companies and start-ups within the film industry:
From 2017-2018 she worked for Paris-based OLFFI, the world’s largest database on public funding for film & TV.
From 2018-2021 she was based in Barcelona, where she was head of partnerships for FilmarketHub, Europe’s leading online marketplace for features and series in development.
In 2022, Joanna was one of the main organizers of the Venezuela Film Hub, an initiative of +50 Venezuelan filmmakers that presented themselves at the Cannes Marché du Film with market screenings and a pitching event that included fiction and documentary projects - the first ever private Venezuelan initiative of this sort at an international market.
Joanna has taken many film & screenwriting courses at renowned institutions such as USC California, UCLA, EICTV Cuba, Showrunners Barcelona, Altamedia Lab Madrid, and many more. She has moderated multiple live events throughout her young career, given workshops on project development and participated as jury member at international pitching events and film festivals such as Interfilm's Script Pitch in Berlin, Almagro International Film Festival in Spain, and the Venezuelan Film Festival in her country.
Joanna is a writer, producer, director from Venezuela, who has spent the last ten years between Europe and her home country and is currently based in Caracas. Her fifteen minute social drama Harina (2018), a fictionalized portrayal of the food shortages in her home country, was screened at over 60 film festivals in over 24 countries (Tampere, Cartagena, Guadalajara, Japan), and received numerous awards, such as first prize at the acclaimed 44th Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva and jury mention at 34th Interfilm Berlin. Harina was acquired by HBO.
Hunger (2024), her debut feature film, an ambitious Ibero-American co-production that narrates the situation of migration in Venezuela, had a successful route in development labs such as MFIScript2Film, CineQuaNon, FEST Pitching Forum, and received production grants (Ibermedia, Corfo, MIC). The film will premiere in 2024. Joanna is currently developing a documentary on violence towards Venezuelan migrant women titled Refugee Road (2025) and is also working on the screenplay of an erotic thriller to be set amid the Venezuelan petrol economy titled Selina (2026).
With a degree in economics and management from Jacobs University in Germany and a drive for project management, Joanna has also worked for innovative companies and start-ups within the film industry:
From 2017-2018 she worked for Paris-based OLFFI, the world’s largest database on public funding for film & TV.
From 2018-2021 she was based in Barcelona, where she was head of partnerships for FilmarketHub, Europe’s leading online marketplace for features and series in development.
In 2022, Joanna was one of the main organizers of the Venezuela Film Hub, an initiative of +50 Venezuelan filmmakers that presented themselves at the Cannes Marché du Film with market screenings and a pitching event that included fiction and documentary projects - the first ever private Venezuelan initiative of this sort at an international market.
Joanna has taken many film & screenwriting courses at renowned institutions such as USC California, UCLA, EICTV Cuba, Showrunners Barcelona, Altamedia Lab Madrid, and many more. She has moderated multiple live events throughout her young career, given workshops on project development and participated as jury member at international pitching events and film festivals such as Interfilm's Script Pitch in Berlin, Almagro International Film Festival in Spain, and the Venezuelan Film Festival in her country.
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