Emilio Santoyo

Emilio Santoyo (Mexico, 1990) is an artist, filmmaker and researcher. 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. 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), "This savage beast" and "Vera, Vera, Vera (or the behavior of broken hearts)". In 2015 he founded Anomia (anomie), a Mexican film production company and platform for innovative Latin American art house cinema, where he collaborates with a a group of artists. In 2025, he co-founded the collective Electric Shadows in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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 is the artist behind the expanded cinema project "Love potions" with the support of the AFK (Amsterdams fonds voor de kunst) and the Amarte Funds (Netherlands). As part of his academic activities, Emilio created the Cinematography Specialization Postgraduate Program in Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión (Mexico).