Jaime E. Manrique

Founder and director of LABORATORIOS BLACK VELVET, a comprehensive film management company, in continuous activity for over 25 years spanning from communications, through production, to distribution. He is the founder and director of the Bogotá Short Film Festival / Festival de Cortos de Bogotá – BOGOSHORTS, conceptual designer of the BOGOSHORTS Movement, and strategist of its Latin American short film distribution agency, BOGOSHORTS Film Agency. He is also the creator and editor of PANTALLA COLOMBIA for the past 22 years, a weekly newsletter on Colombian cinema, owned by Proimágenes Colombia, where he has served as digital communications advisor for the past two decades.Analyzed films in over 15 media outlets in recent years. He was a partner and part of the management team at Cine Tonalá Bogotá, an alternative exhibition venue in the Colombian capital (2015-2020). He has directed communications and launch campaigns for over 65 Colombian films and film festivals, including the FICCI – Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias (2011-2019). He is one of the founding members of the Academia Colombiana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas – ACACC and its current director of communications.He has served as a jury member and/or programmer in the short film category at various film festivals: FICCI (Colombia), DocsMX (Mexico), Tampere Film Festival (Finland), Cusco (Peru), Vision Youth Awards (China), Le Nouveau Cinema du Montreal (Canada), Curta Cinema – Festival Internacional De Curtas Do Rio De Janeiro (Brazil), Durban International Film Festival (South Africa), interfilm Berlin (Germany), Minikino – Bali International Short Film Festival (Indonesia), among others.He has taught various film courses at Universidad Externado de Colombia, Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Politécnico Grancolombiano, and is a professor of Distribution and Film Marketing at the Production Department of the International School of Film and Television EICTV, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.