Manuel Embalse

Buenos Aires, 1991. Editor, musician and sound designer. Member of Antes Muerto Cine, film collective based in Buenos Aires. Degree in Audiovisual Arts from UNA (National University of Art) and since (...) 2014 coordinates a tutorial workshop for documentary and experimental projects. In 2019, he participated in the Berlinale Talents Latin America and in 2022 in Talents Berlin in the Editors Studio. He directed, filmed, wrote, sounded, edited and produced the short films "The universal history of reality" (2013), "Blue ice meditation" (2014), "Nature’s technology" (2014), "2015" (2015), "I won’t let you down" (2015), "Pray in a lottery" (2016), "Delete videos" (2017), "The natal chart of Argentina" (2018), "Encyclopedia Catalog" (2020) and "First image of Mars" (2023). Coeditor with Tatiana Mazú González of “Owner’s portrait” by Joaquín Maito premiered at IDFF Ji.hlava 2018 (Best First Feature film). Assistant director, assistant editor and cameraman for Tatiana Mazú González’s “Shady River” premiered at FIDMarseille 2020 (Charles de Beauregard Prix of the International Competition). Editor with Manque La Banca, director of “Esquí”, premiered at Berlinale Forum 2021 (FIPRESCI award). In 2019 he won a fund from the Biennial of Young Art to produce his first feature as director “What am I doing in this visual world?” that portrays the life of Zezé Fassmor, blind artist from Peru, premiered at Festifreak 2020 (This human world 2021 special mention, Perugia Social Film Festival 2021 special mention, FAVEPP 2021 special mention and FICE 2020 special mention). As a director, he is currently distributing his second feature film The New Ruins, which had its world premiere at Documentary Fortnight: MoMA's Documentary Fortnight: MoMA's International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media 2024, and its European premiere at Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse 2024 in the Feature Documentary Competition. Currently he's editing documentary features in different stages as Francisco Bouza's "Handycam", Juan José Pereira's first feature film "Under the flags, the sun", Julian Galay's first feature "Intersections", Tatiana Ivancovich's first feature "Capital of the seed", Esteban Bellotto's first feature "City Tour", Sebastián Zanzottera's first feature "Brick's smoke" and "Museum of the night" by Fermín Eloy Acosta.