Manuel Concha, born 1980 in Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

, is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 film director of Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an descent.

After some 30 short films of which The decision and Moments was shown on Gothenburg Film Festival

Gothenburg Film Festival

Göteborg International Film Festival is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, launched in 1979. The first year the festival showed 17 films on 3 screens, and had 3 000 visitors. Today, the film festival is the biggest in Scandinavia and takes place 10 days every year between January and...

 in 2003 Concha debuted in 2008 with the feature film Mañana who premiered at the Stockholm film festival. Manuel Concha dropped out from The University of Film directing in Gothenburgh. His feature film Mañana was selected for the festival A- filmfestival at Cairo International Film Festival. The film was also shown in Cleveland International Film Festival, Bogota International Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, BUFF, Tenerife International Film Festival, Bermuda International Filmfestival and was cited in newspapers including The Plain Dealer and Variety

Concha is also music video director and has made videos among others Swedish Grammy winners The Sounds

The Sounds

The Sounds are a Swedish Indie Rock band. Formed in Helsingborg in 1999, the group's musical style has been compared to New Wave acts such as Blondie, The Cars, the Epoxies and Missing Persons....

, Lazee

Lazee

Mawuli Kulego is a Swedish rapper from Malmö, Sweden.-Biography:LAZEE was born in Malmö, Sweden, to parents of Ghanaian origin. His passion for music grew from a young age and he was heavily influenced by the musical tastes of his father who was a DJ. He introduced young Lazee to soul, R&B and...

, Grammy winner Leslie

Leslie

- Places :in Canada:* Leslie Street, road in Toronto and York Region, Ontario** Leslie , subway station located on the above road** Leslie Street Spit, artificial spit in Toronto, south of the above roadin Scotland:* Leslie, Fife...

, American Grammy nominated Trey Songz

Trey Songz

Tremaine "Trey" Aldon Neverson , better known by his stage name Trey Songz, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor. His debut album, I Gotta Make It, was released in 2005, while his second album, Trey Day, was released in 2007...

]), Rebstar

Rebstar

Rebin Shah better known by his stage name Rebstar, is a Swedish rapper.-Early life:Rebin Shah was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is the only child of a Persian mother and a Kurdish father. He found his love for hip hop at an early age, having mentioned Fresh Prince and Redman as his early influences...

, Advance Patrol and Lilleman.

Manuel Concha participated as an actor in Anders and Måns TV series Success duo with Anders and Måns where he played himself as a director in an episode ("Commercial"). In the spring of 2010 Manuel Concha directed "Vilmas Blog") for Swedish Television (SVT) and in the summer of 2010 Manuel Concha directed the hit series Starke man with Anders Jansson, Claudia Galli, Anna Blomberg and Magnus Mark in the lead roles. Starke Man was nominated at Kristallen 2011, the swedish version of the prestigious american Emmy awards. The series revolves around mayor Lars-Goran Bengtsson in Skånes second most boring municipality, Svinarp. Manuel is also appears in a small role as a cameraman in the episode ("Mediakarusellen"). Manuel Concha also directed season 2 of Starke Man and was broadcasted during the Fall 2011. Manuel Concha directed the tv-series "Elsas Värld" based on the book of Sofi Fahrman

Sofi Fahrman

Sofi Margareta Fahrman, born July 20, 1979 in Stockholm nowadays living in New York, USA is a Swedish journalist and fashion reporter at the Aftonbladet newspaper. Sofi Fahrman also run and owns the blog at Aftonbladets official website, she also each week released her own fashion magazine Sofis...

 "Elsas Mode".

Manuel Concha is currently working on his second feature film that will be shot early 2013.

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