Founder and director of Laboratorios Black Velvet, a company with over twenty-five years of constant activity in comprehensive film management (from communications to production to distribution). He is also the founder and director of the Bogotá Short Film Festival (Bogoshorts), concept designer of the Bogoshorts Movement, and strategist for the Bogoshorts Film Agency, which distributes Latin American shorts. For twenty-two years, he has been the creator and editor of Pantalla Colombia, a weekly newsletter on the contemporary Colombian film scene; the newsletter is owned by Proimágenes Colombia, where he has served for two decades as digital communications advisor. Manrique is a film analyst for over fifteen media outlets. He was a partner and member of the management team for Cine Tonalá Bogotá, an alternative movie theater in the Colombian capital (2015-2020). He has worked as communications director and launch campaign director for more than sixty-five Colombian films and film festivals, including the Cartagena International Film Festival (2011- 2019). He is among the founding members of the Colombian Academy of Film Arts and Sciences and its current communications director. He has been a juror and programmer of short films for numerous festivals: FICCI (Colombia), DocsMX (Mexico), Tampere Film Festival (Finland), Cusco (Peru), Vision Youth Awards (China), Le Nouveau Cinema du Montreal (Canada), Curta Cinema–Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival (Brazil), Durban International Film Festival (South Africa), interfilm Berlin (Germany), and Minikino–Bali International Short Film Festival (Indonesia), among others. Manrique has lectured on cinema at three Colombian universities (Externado de Colombia, Jorge Tadeo Lozano, and the Politécnico Grancolombiano). He has also taught film distribution and marketing as part of the production program at the International School of Film and TV (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.
Founder and director of Laboratorios Black Velvet, a company with over twenty-five years of constant activity in comprehensive film management (from communications to production to distribution). He is also the founder and director of the Bogotá Short Film Festival (Bogoshorts), concept designer of the Bogoshorts Movement, and strategist for the Bogoshorts Film Agency, which distributes Latin American shorts. For twenty-two years, he has been the creator and editor of Pantalla Colombia, a weekly newsletter on the contemporary Colombian film scene; the newsletter is owned by Proimágenes Colombia, where he has served for two decades as digital communications advisor. Manrique is a film analyst for over fifteen media outlets. He was a partner and member of the management team for Cine Tonalá Bogotá, an alternative movie theater in the Colombian capital (2015-2020). He has worked as communications director and launch campaign director for more than sixty-five Colombian films and film festivals, including the Cartagena International Film Festival (2011- 2019). He is among the founding members of the Colombian Academy of Film Arts and Sciences and its current communications director. He has been a juror and programmer of short films for numerous festivals: FICCI (Colombia), DocsMX (Mexico), Tampere Film Festival (Finland), Cusco (Peru), Vision Youth Awards (China), Le Nouveau Cinema du Montreal (Canada), Curta Cinema–Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival (Brazil), Durban International Film Festival (South Africa), interfilm Berlin (Germany), and Minikino–Bali International Short Film Festival (Indonesia), among others. Manrique has lectured on cinema at three Colombian universities (Externado de Colombia, Jorge Tadeo Lozano, and the Politécnico Grancolombiano). He has also taught film distribution and marketing as part of the production program at the International School of Film and TV (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.
