Pablo Mensi
FILMMAKER
Pablo Mensi is a filmmaker drawn to stories where the personal and the historical quietly intersect. His work explores memory, identity, and the invisible threads that connect individuals to broader cultural landscapes, often through an intimate and observational lens.
Trained in Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU) and in Screenplay Writing at the University of Barcelona (ESCAC), he approaches filmmaking as a dialogue between narrative structure and visual atmosphere, where meaning emerges as much from what is shown as from what remains off-screen.
Working across documentaries, series, and commissioned films, he builds character-driven narratives that privilege nuance, rhythm, and emotional resonance over spectacle.
His films have been presented at international festivals including the Havana Film Festival, BAFICI, In-Edit, and WOMEX.
His work as a producer includes an Emmy Award–winning documentary for The New York Times.
EDUCATION
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (E.S.C.A.C.) – Spain
Postgraduate qualification: Film scriptwriting (2002)
Universidad de Buenos Aires – Argentina Undergraduate qualification: Image and Sound Design (1995-2000)
TV & DOCUMENTARIES
Bastards beats (2026) 72’.
Director, ZZK Films. Argentina / USA. (Feature Doc).
Project awarded with development fund by Argentinian Institute of Cinema & Mecenazgo Buenos Aires
Luzmila and the birds (2023) 78’.
Director. ZZK Films. Argentina/Bolivia/USA (Feature Doc).
Winner Feature Film Americas, Quetzalcoatl Indigenous International Film Festival, Best documentary award SIGNiS, Festival Internacional de Cine FENAVID. Bolivia. WIP IN-EDIT Barcelona, Spain. Festival del Cinema Ibero-Latino Americano di Trieste, Italy. Films from the South, Oslo, Norway. Girona Film Festival, Spain. Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Salerno, Italy. Le Guess Who? Utrecht, NL. Festival Internacional de Cine de Cuenca, Ecuador. TUWUN - Muestra de Cine Indígena de Wallmapu, Chile. Future Traditions Fest, USA.
The Path of Che Guevara (2023) 72’
Director. Argentina. (Feature Doc).
Selected by Havana Film Festival
Territorio Sonoro (2021) 8 Episodes. 25’
Director, ZZK Films. Canal á. Argentina/USA (TV Docu-Series).
Atención! Murderer Next Door (2020) 13’.
Producer, The New York Times. USA. (Short Doc)
Emmy’21 Docs&News awarded.
Sonido Mestizo (2017) 63’.
Director, ZZK Films. Argentina / Ecuador / USA. (Feature Doc)
Selected by BAFICI - Argentina / See You Sound - Italy / WOMEX - Poland/ Festival Internacional de Punta del Este – Uruguay / Festival de Cine Latino Americano di Trieste – Italy / Green Mountain Film Festival - USA / FESAALP - Argentina / Babel Med - France / Festival NUMES – Spain / InterActos – Ecuador / Festival Cordillera – Argentina / Festival Sonido y Movimiento – Ecuador / Provincia Emergente - Argentina.
Los Planetas (2017) 15 Episodes, 10’
Director, América TV. Argentina. (TV Docu-Series)
A Musical Journey (2016) 63’
Director, ZZK Films. Argentina / USA. (Feature Doc).
The Nu LatAm Sound (2015) 11'
Director, ZZK Films. VEVO. Ecuador/Argentina. (Docu-Web)
Historias de la Plaza (2015) 4 Episodes, 28’
Producer, Argentinian Public TV commission. Canal Encuentro. (TV Docu-Series)
World’s Best Restaurants Series (2014) 3’
Director, Stay Gold Studios, UK. (Docu-Web)
La Juventud del Bicentenario (2012) 4 Episodes, 43’
Director, Subterranea Films. Argentina. (TV Docu-Series)
Argentinian Institute of Cinema commission
Senanes 3+ (2011) 48’
Director, Argentina. (Documentary)