Emilio Santoyo (Mexico, 1990) is an artist, filmmaker and researcher. He directed the short film “The perfect absent” (2019), a well as the fictional feature-length films “Ana’s desire” (2019), “Silver heart” (co-direction, 2023) and “This savage beast” (in postproduction). In 2015 he founded Anomia (anomie), a film production company and platform for innovative Latin American arthouse cinema, where he collaborates with a a group of artists. His work investigates themes such as the representation of love and violence, family and memory, questioning and expanding the possibilities of fiction in cinema through multi-disciplinary methods of production.

Emilio is a Berlinale Talents alumnus and holds a BA in film direction from CENTRO de Diseño, Cine y Television (Mexico), as well as a MA in Artistic Research “in and through Cinema” from the Nederlandse Filmacademie (Netherlands). He currently edits his new feature film, “Vera, Vera, Vera (or the behaviour of broken hearts)” and develops the expanded cinema project “Love potions" with the support of the AFK (Amsterdams fonds voor de kunst) and the AMARTE Funds (Netherlands).

EDUCATION

2025 BAL (Baltic Analogue Lab) Film School (Latvia)

2022-2024 Master – Artistic Research in and through cinema – Netherlands Film Academy (The Netherlands)

2010-2014 Bachelor's Degree (Honours) in Film and Television – Center for Design, Film and Television (Mexico)

FILMOGRAPHY

2025 Vera, Vera, Vera (Or the behaviour of broken hearts) (in post-production) – 80 min

2025 Ghost letter for a lost love (in post-production) - 28 min

2025 This savage beast (in post-production) – 95 min

2023 Silver heart (Collective work) – 87 min

2019 Ana's desire – 79 min

2019 The perfect absent – 13 min