Manuel Arias

Películas

Siempreviva
Writer
The economy is not doing well and in a few months Lucia will lose the mortgaged house where she lives with her two children, Mr. Carlos the owner of the Second-hand store, Sergio, Clown by day, waiter by night, and his wife Victoria. Julieta, the youngest child, is the family's salvation. She just graduated from law school when, on the morning of November 6, 1985, she leaves for her job at the Palace of Justice and never returns. There are witnesses that claim to have seen her alive after the Palace burned down after the Guerilla attack, the habitants lives of the house won't be the same. Based on true events and on a play in Colombia, 1985.
El mudo
Screenplay
Among the hodge-podge of Peruvian government officials, there is a man named Constantino Zegarra. He doesn’t fit anywhere and looks down on his colleagues because he has never succumbed to an act of corruption and, every time he has had the opportunity to do so, he has made an effort to impede it. Over his two decades as a government official he has cultivated purity - the fuel for his soul. Now forty, this solitary soldier is a married man and father to a teenage girl who never stops reading and thinks her father is wrong. He doesn’t care what his wife and daughter think. Constantino has taken his principles to the extreme in order to prove to himself that he isnot like his father, a man who ended his days in poverty because of corruption. One morning, Constantino leaves his house and a stray bullet goes through his throat. He doesn’t die but becomes mute. After his recovery, the only thing of which he is certain is that someone from his office tried to kill him.
Bolivar soy Yo
Writer
Santiago Miranda¸ un actor que representa a Bolívar en una serie de televisión¸ abandona furioso la grabación porque no está de acuerdo con los libretos que obligan a morir a Bolívar¸ frente al paredón. Entre la lucidez y la locura¸ Miranda actúa en verdad como un Bolívar dispuesto a realizar cualquier acto que permita concluir la tarea unificadora del Libertador y como un actor que busca reescribir la realidad para que se parezca a los sueños de Simón Bolívar.