Roly Santos


Roly Santos is an Argentinean filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. Santos made his directorial debut with How Silly We Are to Grow Up and, in 2017, co-directed Coffee for All alongside Fulvio Iannucci, which was released on Netflix. Santos is a member of DAC - Directores Argentinos Cinematograficos, the association of Argentine film directors.

Education

Santos graduated from Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica in the 1980s, and later acquired a sociology degree from Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1991.

Career

Santos produced films in many countries around the world. His directorial debut, How Silly We Are to Grow Up, was a fiction feature film. Roly Santos worked as producer and director on TV shows, movies, and documentaries such as Crisol, Hi India, and New Dubliners. He received Best Director and Best Edition awards for Hands Together—a documentary feature—in Figueira Film Art . With his Italian partners, he created Caffè Sospeso, a feature documentary released by Netflix in 2018 with the English title "Coffee For All". Santos also produced and directed Dedalo, a fiction series. In 2019 he produced and directed a fiction feature Water Pigs, also known as "Agua dos Porcos/Aguas Selvagens", a co-production between Argentina and Brazil.

Author/teacher

Santos teaches about labor rights and intellectual property rights for technicians, directors, actors, and musicians of the film industry worldwide. He is a member of "DAC" Argentine Directors, Argentores, and 100autori. He was founder and coordinator of FEDALA America Latin Writers and Film Directors Federation, 2003–2010.Argentine Cultural Industries, - research collaboration with author O. Getino

Activity under military dictatorship period

  • 1980 - When "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" began their rounds around the square, very few Argentines were present. Santos filmed some of the events. As a film director, he accompanied them at times during the civic-military dictatorship, documenting marches and the repressions suffered by the Mothers and himself.
  • 1982 - "When our classmate Roly Santos and Kino González shot social and testimonial film content, so they were expelled from School Film military authority".

Filmography

Film Director

  • 2019: Agua dos Porcos
  • 2018: Dedalo
  • 2017: Café pendiente
  • 2016: New Dubliners .
  • 2015: Hola India .
  • 2014: Manos Unidas .
  • 2013: Crisol
  • 2000: Que absurdo es haber crecido
  • 1988: Diálogos en el Noroeste .
  • 1986: Revelación .

Screen Writer

  • 2016: New Dubliners
  • 2015: Hola India
  • 2014: Manos Unidas
  • 2013: Crisol
  • 2000: Que absurdo es haber crecido
  • 1988: Diálogos en el Noroeste
  • 1986: ''Revelación''

Producer

  • 2020 Letto numero 6
  • 2019: Agua dos Porcos/Aguas Selvagens
  • 2018: Dedalo
  • 2017: Café pendiente
  • 2016: New Dubliners
  • 2015: Hola India
  • 2014: Manos Unidas
  • 2013: Crisol
  • 2000: Que absurdo es haber crecido
  • 1988: Diálogos en el Noroeste
  • 1986: ''Revelación''

Cameraman

  • 2017: Café pendiente
  • 2016: New Dubliners
  • 2015: Hola India
  • 2014: ''Manos Unidas''

Editing

  • 1986: ''Gombrowicz o la seducción''