Manuel Trotta

Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as Rivera

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A highly imaginative 10-year-old boy befriends his superhero-themed piñata prior to his birthday party. But upon realizing the tragic fate that awaits for his cardboard companion, he must rebel against the celebratory ritual in order to save his only friend.

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

"Des-authorized" is the combination of three stories, three realities that coexist and feed. The journey begins in the imagination of Elia K, the principal, who imagines Elijah, a character who is a poor playwright facing the crossroads to be true to his art, or succumb to the pressures of the producers must decide his work between surrender or pay the price of his freedom. On another level, we have Nina and Frederick, the protagonists of the work that Elijah is writing. They only seek to love, they are forced to leave the paper and press the Elijah to them the end that his story deserves, this is the starting point of "Des-authorized" a film set in an imaginary city , colorful and delusional. In the line of "Amelie" and "Stranger Than Fiction", brings a reflection on art, creativity, love and heartbreak.

Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Román, a member of a terrorist group, has to place one of the four bombs on the train going west. At the same station, and at the same time of the attack, Verónica, a single mother, goes to meet her son Javi to take him to school. Román and Verónica live in the same building, but they have never seen each other. Fate intervenes when, on the way to the station, they meet in the elevator.

Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Beto

A man suffering from dementia asks his son to help him fly to the moon so he can say goodbye to his late wife. Manuel Trotta and Luigi Sciamanna star in this award-winning short film.