[1] He is one of the most prolific editors in the Philippines[2] and has edited the films Ruined Heart (2014), A Gentle Night (2017), Balangiga (2017) and Women of the Weeping River (2018) to name a few.
His most recent work is his feature film directorial debut, Whether the Weather is Fine (2021), which premiered at Locarno and won the Cinema e Gioventù Prize.
[1] He studied in business school initially, then pursued engineering during his first few years of university before eventually shifting to film.
[6] In 2015, after encouragement from Khavn de la Cruz, Manatad directed his first short film Junilyn Has.
Meanwhile, Manatad's short film Jodilerks Dela Cruz (2017), which originally was created as a treatment to show to producers and practice for a feature, was submitted and unexpectedly accepted to La Semaine de la Critique, a parallel sidebar section of Cannes which aims to discover new talented filmmakers.