Nostromo Pictures has been a mainstay in Spanish cinema for over a decade, shaping everything from intimate indie features to heavyweight co-productions with Netflix and Amazon. Founded around 2010, the studio made its name with Rodrigo Cortés' Buried and has since become a trusted partner for large-scale shoots across Spain and the Canary Islands.

Creatively, they are thriving. Operationally, the story used to be quite different.

Managing multiple productions, each requiring its own legal entity, budget, and team, introduced a level of financial complexity that outpaced Nostromo’s legacy systems. Projects overlapped, timelines stretched, and the cash kept moving, and moving, and moving. Their finance team was stuck in an analogue loop: manual reconciliations that dragged on for months, armies of staff scanning receipts, and spreadsheets teetering under the weight of real-time demands.

What began as administrative friction soon became a structural obstacle, with pain points such as:

Through Pleo, Nostromo gained something they'd never had before: a finance solution built to handle the beautiful frenzy of film production.

Its flexibility was the breakthrough. The team could finally manage multiple temporary companies, each with its own spending needs and reporting structures, all while staying in control. Whether it was tracking location costs in the Canaries or crew expenses in central Madrid, Pleo gave them real-time visibility, full accountability, and the confidence to make better decisions every step of the way.

The shift happened quite quickly. Cash just… disappeared. Reconciliations that once took hours now took minutes. Production teams stopped scanning receipts and started focusing on making films.

“It’s honestly like night and day, there’s just no comparison. We save a huge amount of time across the board, on reimbursements, approvals, and just keeping everything current. We’re now practically up to date at all times.” – Iván Pérez, Head of Administration

Pleo’s tools align seamlessly with Nostromo’s business model. Setting up new entities doesn’t drag on for days anymore, with each one benefiting from the parent company’s contract terms. What used to be a tangled web of admin is now a streamlined financial operation with complete clarity and control over every penny.