Melisa Liebenthal
Directing
- Born
- January 26, 1991 (age 35) · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Melisa Liebenthal (1991, Buenos Aires) is a film director and editor. 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, 75 min.). Her films were awarded at Rotterdam, Berlinale, Mar del Plata and BAFICI international film festivals, and screened in FIDMarseille, Edinburgh and Torino film festivals, MoMA and Film at Lincoln Center, amongst others.
Her work reflects on the way we construct our identity in a contemporary world, from a clearly female perspective and playfully articulating different materials.
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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.
In 2024 she was a Junge Akademie - Akademie der Künste Berlin fellow in Villa Serpentara, Olevano Romano (Italy).
Known for
Behind the camera6
- 2025Jankee Editor, Screenplay, Producer
- 2022The Face of the Jellyfish Director, Writer
- 2020Dancing in the Street, 11 grados de separación Director
- 2019Here and There Director, Writer
- 2019Constanza Director
- 2016The Pretty Ones Director, Writer, Editor
Acting2
- 2019Here and There as Herself
- 2016The Pretty Ones