Sebastian Mantilla
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Sebastian Mantilla (born 1979) is a filmmaker and screenwriter from Spain, known for his acclaimed 2004 short film, Con diva (With Diva). Other works include Looking for Marton, The Other Voice, White, and Bully the Kid. Next to Babilonia is his independent feature film debut about the spanish mercenaries during the Iraq war, winner of Best First Film award at Madrid Int'l. Film Festival- FILMA MADRID 2008
Mantilla is a Spaniard born in Quito, Ecuador, and was raised in Stockholm, Berlin, Bucharest and Brussels. He graduated from the University Pompeu Fabra - IDEC in Barcelona with a mockumentary shot in Budapest, Looking for Marton. This film would approach the lives of Hungarian painter Laszlo Marton and German Hans Moeller, a man who never accepted Marton's freedom.
In 2004 he shot Con diva, the story of a homosexual Muslim who is trying to survive in Barcelona. It received recognition after its first broadcast on Televisión Española, and confirmed its potential, not only at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened during the prestigious Critic's Week, but also at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2005 he shot The Other Voice, White and Bully the Kid in Brazil and Spain.
He is now postproducing his short documentary The Captain and in preproduction of his next film Canal developed at the prestigious Script&Pitch and Torino Film Lab.
