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Marc Menchaca

Marc Menchaca

4 films · 458 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20212025

Born 10 October 1975 · San Angelo, Texas, USA

Marc Menchaca is an American actor, writer, and director. He was co-director, co-writer, and lead actor of the 2013 Heartland Film Festival movie This Is Where We Live and was awarded best actor at the Breckenridge Film Festival in 2016 for his lead role in the film Reparation and his lead role in #LIKE, in 2021 at the Oxford Film Festival. He has appeared in several television shows, including Ozark in 2018 and The Sinner, Manifest, and The Outsider in 2019.

Menchaca first became interested in performing as a student at Central High School. After graduating, he attended Texas A&M University, earning a bachelor's degree in English; it was also where he acted in his first play.

How their films are shot

Measured across 458 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Marc takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 51% natural — the look of the work Marc takes.

Time of day

Day46%
Night44%
Interior7%

Lighting

Natural51%
Low key36%
High key11%

Shot size

Medium59%
Closeup23%
Wide11%
Establishing4%

Camera angle

Eye level86%
High angle6%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral58%
Tense20%
Lonely9%
Ominous7%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 458 frames from Marc Menchaca's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.