Santiago Zermeño

Réalisateur·trice

BIOGRAPHIE

Santiago Zermeño (1992), originally from Mexico City, arrived to filmmaking after going through still photography, mathematics and social sciences. In 2009 he was awarded a scholarship by the United World Colleges organization to study for two years in Maharashtra, India. His collaborations as editor and cinematographer have led him to work in productions and artistic residencies in the United States, Peru, Italy and Mexico. He studied Film Direction at the Centro de Capacitación CInematográfica in Mexico City, and works professionally as a freelance director, script supervisor and editor. His short film directorial debut Agua (2020) has screened in over 30 festivals and showcases such as Palm Springs Shortfest, Molodist Kviv, Brussels SFF, Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse and Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia. It has won several distinctions and awards, including the Vimeo Staff Pick Award at the Guanajuato IFF and the CIBA-CILECT Prize 2021 for the best iberoamerican film. In 2021-2022 he participated as editor in the Castello Errante Residenza di Cinema, an IBERMEDIA financed program. Regard Silence (2022) is his first documentary short. He is currently working on the preproduction of his thesis project for the Bachelor's degree in Film Direction, to be shot in September 2022.

FILMOGRAPHIE