1987 - Graduated in Theatrology and Dramaturgy at the Higher Institute of Art. Havana, Cuba.
1991 - Graduated as a Film and Television Director at the International Film and TV School (EICTV) of San Antonio de los Baños, Havana, Cuba.
1994 - Participated in the Experimental Workshop for Screenwriters taught by Gabriel García Márquez.
Since 1994 has been teaching workshops and consulting in Dramaturgy, Scriptwriting for Film and TV, Film Direction and Appreciation, and Film History.
Cinematography:
2022 - Writer and Co-Director of Brown, a fiction feature film. -Best unpublished script award at the XL Festival of Latin American New Cinema, Havana, Cuba.
2019 - Co-Director of Panama In A Day, documentary feature film. Viceversa, Scott Free Productions and Medcom Corporation.
2016 - Screenwriter and Co-Director of Salsipuedes, fiction feature film. Award for Best Central American Film. IFF Panama Festival
2014 - Co-Writer of Historias del Canal, fiction feature film. Dir: Pituka Ortega Heilbron and Abner Benaim.
2013 - Screenwriter, Editor and Co-Director of the Documentary Buscando al General, Panamá, Feature film.
2010 - Screenwriter of El Último Comandante, a fiction feature film. Brazil and Costa Rica. Dir. Isabel Martínez. 2009. Best Screenplay Award at the XXIII Film Festival in Trieste, Italy and Best Screenplay Award at the Ícaro Festival, Guatemala.
2010 - Screenwriter of El cayo de la muerte, a fiction feature film. Brazil, Spain and Cuba. Dir. Wolney Oliveira. 2006. Best Film Award at the Macapá Festival, Brazil. Award for Best Screenplay at the XXII Film Festival in Trieste, Italy.
2005 - Screenwriter of Viva Cuba, fiction feature film. Dir. Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti. Grand Prix Ecrans Juniors, Cannes. Caracol Award for Best Script awarded by the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. Candidate for Cuba for the Oscar Awards. Among others.
2003 - Co-screenwriter of La Casa de Enfrente, a fiction feature film. Guatemala. Dir. Elías Jiménez.
2002 - Writer and co-director of Crisis, with Enrique Álvarez. Fiction short film.
2001 - Screenwriter of Nada, a fiction feature film by Juan Carlos Cremata. Official Selection Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Festival. Nominated for the Goya Award from the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Spain. Caracol Screenplay Award awarded by the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. Among others.
2001 - Screenwriter of Las noches de Constantinopla, a fiction feature film by Orlando Rojas. Audience Award, New York Latino Film Festival, United States.
1998 - Screenwriter of Scuba Drive, by Issac Pierre Racine. Feature film, docu-fiction. Canada.
1996 - Co-writer of Killing Cat, finalist in the Sundance Institute screenplay competition,
1996 - Director and screenwriter of the fiction short film El Sardina, Cinema, 35 millimeters, 45 minutes.
1994 - Screenwriter of Madagascar, by Fernando Pérez. Fiction. Best Latin American film at the Sundance Film Festival. Caligari Berlin International Film Festival Award. Best Script Award awarded by the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. Among others.
1994 - Best unpublished script award at the XVII Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana, for Cerrado por Reformas.
1991 -Director and screenwriter of the fiction short Ah, la primavera, 1991, 16 millimeters, 30 minutes. Best Film Award at the 5th Havana Young Film Festival, Cuba.
Television:
2007 to 2010 - Production Advisor, scriptwriter and director in the State Radio and TV System.
2006 - Writer and Co-Director of the television series Vivimos un Secreto, 40 chapters, for Telemetro, Panama. 2006.
2005 - Writer and Director of Marea Roja, teleplay. Feature film. Panama. 2005.
2004 - Co-Director and Screenwriter of the television series Ciudad Desnuda, Las Historias, 12 chapters, for Telemetro, Panama. 2004.
2002 - Screenwriter of El Verdugo, fiction short film. Dir Juan Pin Vilar. 2002. Digital format. Best Screenplay and Best Short Film Award, awarded by the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba.
Literature and Theater:
1998 - The story El Mundo de Margore was awarded in La Gaceta de Cuba and published that same year.
1994 - Won the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Scholarship from the UNEAC (Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba) and the publication in the Gaceta de Cuba of the story En la Tierra de la Reina Maud, which was also included in the Anthology Alabbra Nude, Racconti dall'ultima Cuba, a cure by Danilo Manera, Il Canguri/Feltrinelli in 1995.
1986 - Obtained the 13 de Marzo Theater Prize with the piece Desnudo al final de la carrera, published the following year, and later adapted and shown on TV.
Manolito has published stories in various literary magazines in Cuba and other countries.
