Franthiesco Anthonio Ballerini Manso (born, February 21, 1981), is a Brazilian journalist, art critic who is specialized in cinema,[1][2] a writer,[3] professor[4] and PhD in media communications.

[13][14] In 2022, he was invited by the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California, to cover the event Reunited in Dance, a spectacle with Russian and Ukrainian ballet dancers.

[15] In Brazil, as a writer, he was a pioneer in dedicating exclusive publications about Indian cinema[16] and soft power as a persuasive tool in arts and entertainment.

[18] His fourth book, Poder Suave – Soft Power was a finalist for the 60th Prêmio Jabuti in the creative economy category.

[19][20] In 2016, his article ‘Is Cinema a cultural bridge between Brazil and India?’ was published in the foreign language book Sur South – Poetics and Politics of Thinking Latin America / India, which is part of the Iberoamerican Library in Berlin, considered the greatest European library of Latin-American publications.