About

Known credits:
10
Birthday:
1991-01-26
Place of birth:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Website:
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Melisa Liebenthal

Overview

She directed the films The pretty ones (2016, 77 min.), Constanza (2018, 27 min.), Here and there (2020, 21 min.) and The face of the jellyfish (2022, 76 min.), with which she won awards at Rotterdam, BAFICI, Mar del Plata and Berlinale and was featured in New York Film Festival, Edinburgh and Torino, amongst others.

Melisa Liebenthal's work reflects on identity and its relation to the construction of an image. Her films explore and combine different materials with humor and playful spirit, from documentary and visual experimentation to narrative fiction, always keeping a lively awareness of the specificity of each type of image.

She is a film graduate at Universidad del Cine in Argentina and at Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. She specialized in Editing and Dramatic Structure with professor Miguel Pérez in Argentina, and in Essay-Film at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba. She is a Berlinale Talents (2021) and FID Campus (2018) alumna.

Known for

Acting
2019 Here and There Actor Herself N/A
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2016 The Pretty Ones Actor 59
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Directing
2022 The Face of the Jellyfish Directing Director 58
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2020 Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación Directing Director N/A
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2019 Here and There Directing Director N/A
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2019 Constanza Directing Director N/A
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2016 The Pretty Ones Directing Director 59
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Writing
2019 Here and There Writing Writer N/A
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2016 The Pretty Ones Writing Writer 59
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Editing
2016 The Pretty Ones Editing Editor 59
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