Zac Manuel

Zac Manuel is an awardwinning New Orleans bredandbased cinematographer and director whose work in documentary film and music video explores intimacy Black masculinity class identity and inheritance His cinematography credits include Buckjumping New Orleans Film Festival 2018 Winner Best Cinematography The Earth is Humming Field of Vision SXSW 2018 Alone NYT OpDoc Sundance 2017 Jury Award Winner Best NonFiction Film and America Sundance 2019 Jury Award Winner and Time Sundance 2020 His work as a director has been exhibited at festivals and on platforms around the world including The Washington Post BBC MTV News Rolling Stone Billboard Pitchfork and many more Zacs is a grantee of the Tribeca AllAccess program the IFP Documentary Story Lab and is a recipient of the 2017 Create Louisiana Grant and the 2017 SDF Production Grant for his debut documentary feature Bloodthicker which is currently in post production