Melisa Liebenthal (1991, Buenos Aires) is a film director and editor. She directed the films The pretty ones (2016, 77 min.), Constanza (2018, 27 min.), Here and there (2020, 21 min.) and The face of the jellyfish(2022, 75 min.).
Her films were awarded at IFF Rotterdam, Berlinale, Mar del Plata IFF and BAFICI, and were screened in FIDMarseille, Edinburgh IFF, Torino IFF, MoMA and Film at Lincoln Center, amongst others.
Her work reflects on the way we construct our identity in a contemporary world traversed by cybernetics and consumerism, from a clearly female perspective and playfully articulating different materials.
She is a film graduate at Universidad del Cine in Argentina and at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. She specialized in Editing and Dramatic Structure with professor Miguel Pérez in Argentina, and in Essay-Film at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba. She is a Berlinale Talents (2021) and FID Campus (2018) alumna.
In 2024 she was a Junge Akademie – Akademie der Künste Berlin fellow in Villa Serpentara, Olevano Romano (Italy).
Melisa is a mentor to Mateo Vega for Vrijplaats Residency Hybrid – fiction/non-fiction.