Emilio Santoyo (Mexico, 1990) is an artist and filmmaker. 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” (2025). 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.
Emilio holds a BA in film direction from CENTRO de Diseño, Cine y Television (Mexico) and is a Berlinale Talents alumnus. In the context of the Master of Film (NFA) he developed an Artistic Research project concerning the subversion of Mexican Melodrama through personal unpredictability. As one of the outcomes of his research, he currently edits his new feature film, “Vera, Vera, Vera (or the bizarre behaviour of broken hearts)”. 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.