Manuel Muñoz Rivas

Manuel Muñoz Rivas (Seville, 1978) is a filmmaker based in Spain. Alternates his personal film projects with the co-writing and editing for his friends´s movies. 

His work as a film director to date explores a local geographic area that is familiar to him  (the region of Andalusia), with special attention to the aesthetics and poetics of the landscape and the photogenic value of the human face, all along with a hybrid approach that aims to transcend the labels or conventions of genre (fiction or documentary) and privileges what we could call "cinema of presence" in front of the "cinema of representation". 

His first feature film EL MAR NOS MIRA DE LEJOS premiered in 2017 in BERLINALE, in the FORUM section.