About

The backstory

I’m a filmmaker and educator based in San Antonio, Texas. I have directed and produced independent films and documentaries since 2011, including projects in the U.S., Colombia and Morocco. I named Santos Electric after my grandfather’s electrical repair business, which he started in the 1940s in Hondo, Texas. My grandfather also was a hobbyist in photography and film; he had built his own darkroom in the house where I grew up, complete with photographic enlarger and developing materials, an old Bell & Howell projector, and reels of 8mm films that he’d shot and developed himself. Though he died before I was born, I like to think I inherited his DIY aesthetic and fascination with the image-making process. —Noelia