Santiago is a Colombian Creative Director / Film Director with studies in Filmmaking, Design and Music. He has focused his career on exploring transmedia narratives through audio and moving images. His documentary “La Mirada Desnuda” (2020) was funded by the Colombian Government, and premiered in the FICCI 2020 (Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias) winning the Best Documentary Short Film prize at the Festival de Cine de Jardín.

His great interest in combining filmmaking with music has led him to create and direct two Transmedia Exhibitions. One called «Trayectos Invisibles» and the other «Synthetic Anatomies», where he explores the aesthetics of memory, landscape, and the human body.  Other films Santiago have directed include Blue Buttercream (2025) and Zoe (2024).

Currently he works as a Creative Director at Eagle London Agency in the UK, With them he has directed three TV commercials for the NHS and is currently developing 3 new short films focused on Migration. The Return Of The Osprey (2026) and There is Life in All Things (2026). In parallel he has been releasing music under his solo project, Enla Arboleda.

Academic background

• BA Graphic Design
• MA Documentary Filmmaking
• MA Audio Production

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