It Is Love

Manrique Cortés (Costa Rica, 1985) is an audiovisual producer with studies in Digital Animation, specialized in 3D animation. Throughout his career he has participated in different creative and technical roles that have trained him to produce both animation and live action projects. He worked in the production of animated feature films for Motion Pixel Corporation (USA) and Pritish Nandy Communications (India), including Ekeh 2.0 (2009) and Kick (2007). He participated in the production of the animated series Traveling Stone (2010) for the Irish production company C-Point Entertainment. He founded his first production and animation studio Rubik Studio in 2013. With the company, he managed international projects, as well as projects for non-profit organizations and state institutions. He has worked in feature films such as Por las Plumas (2013) by Neto Villalobos which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, El despertar de las hormigas (2019) by Antonella Sudasassi Furniss which premiered at the Berlinale, and Pájaro de Fuego (2020) by César Caro which premiered at the Havana Film Festival. In 2018 he founded his second production company, sub•stance films to venture into the development and production of his own projects. With the company he has produced the short films Cleo & Nina (2019), Cicatrices (2020) and Es Amor (2021). He is currently working on Memories of a burning body a creative documentary in co-production with Spain written and directed by Antonella Sudasassi Furniss selected among others at the 2020 San Sebastián Co-Production Forum.