Manuel Alberto Maia

(He/him)

Director

Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara ID

Available for Freelance

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Director. Part of @komunitasfilmkupang.

About

Manuel Alberto Maia (Abe) started his passion in filmmaking by founding Komunitas Film Kupang in 2012. In 2013, he joined a documentary film workshop for beginners in the Kickstart! In-Docs program. His short documentaries include Kaos Kupang (2013) and Kabar dari Medan (2014). His debut was a feature-length documentary, titled Nokas (2016), which was successfully screened at various national and international festivals, including the Singapore International Film Festival, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Festival Film Dokumenter, and Freedom Film Festival. It also received a nomination for Best Feature-Length Documentary at Festival Film Indonesia 2016. Additionally, he directed a short fiction film, Siko (2018), which received a nomination for Best Short Film at Festival Film Indonesia 2018. His latest work is a short film titled Uma De Raffa (2022), which was showcased at the Jogja- NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2022. His next documentary-in-production, To An Ending Unwritten is his second feature- length documentary work.

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