2012: Scores both sides of the Atlantic...

- in North Am., 2 plays back to back leading to a final admission into Canada's Union des Artistes + triple guild affiliation Actra/Equity/UdA.

- in Europe, 2 lead roles & feature film prospects in France + ongoing festival circuit of Jules Saulnier's short The Incident, starring Manuel.

October 9th to 27th, 2012

Co-lead in Priscille Amsler's French adaptation of Lars Norén's War.

Theatre Prospero, Montreal

June 15th-24th, 2012

Manuel co-leads and co-produces Un parfum de Montgolfière
at the Montreal Fringe Festival 2012.

Teaser

April 27th and May 2nd, 2012

Paris shoot, in the lead, of an episode of the docufiction Le jour
où tout a basculé, for the national public channel France 2.

Late January to late April 2012

Meetings w/ Parisian filmmakers. Shoot, as co-lead actor, of the short film Fusco, by Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff–who in 2011 had the stroke of genius of distributing Donoma, micro-budget feature film that shook Paris and went on to win France's prestigious Prix Louis-Delluc.