Roly Santos

Place of birth: Argentine
Fame for: Directing
Also known as: Rolando Santos

Biography

Roly Santos is an Argentinean filmmaker graduated from CERC-ENERC (National Cinematographic School) and sociologist from UBA (Buenos Aires University). He shot in a lot of countries around the world. Makes his directorial debut with "How Silly we are grown up" a fiction feature (2000-Official Selection San Sebastian, IFF La Havana and IFF Figueira Foz). He was involved as producer and director in episodes films documentaries such as"Crisol" (Argentina 2011, 8 chapters x 28'), "Hi India" (India 2015, 5 chapters x 26'), "New Dubliners" (Ireland 2016, 5 chapters x 26') . He has got a "Mention" in IFF La Havana (Cuba) and "Best Director" and "Best Edition" awards for "Hands Together" (documentary feature) in Figueira Film Art (Portugal 2015). With Italian partners made "Caffè Sospeso" (feature documentary released by Netflix in 2018). Produced and Directed "Dedalo" Fiction film episodes (8 chapters x26'), and 2019 a fiction feature "Water Pigs", in co-production between Argentina and Brazil. Roly Santos, as a sociologist he taught about "labor rights" and "intellectual property rights" for technicians, directors, actors and musicians of the film industry worldwide. Author is also a member of "DAC" Argentine Directors, Argentores (scriptwriters) and 100autori (Italy).-