Directing

Santiago Haddad

Born November 7, 2000 · Salta, Argentina (age 25)

Santiago Haddad is an Argentine director, screenwriter, and sound designer born in Salta, Argentina. At 18, he moved to Buenos Aires to study at Universidad del Cine (University of Cinema) and has since dedicated himself to developing his film projects. He directed "Río Blanco" (2024), winner of the Ibero-American competition at FIC.UBA, where he also served as sound designer. A wide variety of hi…

Known For

The Backyard

The Backyard · 2020

A normal day in a dystopian world.

Frost

MovieFantasyHorror

One night, a deaf girl wittnesses how a monster kills her mother and while she runs away, she finds a suspeciously helpful man with hidden intentions

Río blanco

Río blanco · 2024

MovieThrillerMystery

A hunter, in his eagerness to hunt a pig, finds himself trapped in the forest.

Vorágine

Vorágine · 2026

Vorágine portrays the lives of a group of young dancers over a year and a half in post-pandemic Buenos Aires. Through rehearsals, conversations, breaks in the dressing rooms, and encounters around the city, the film captures the emotional and physical intensity of artistic labor. Set within the everyday rhythm of creation, between passion and exhaustion, between staying and leaving, Vorágine is an intimate document about the essence of youth.

Sarfo

MovieDocumentary

The life of a racehorse, days before an important racing competition at the Hippodrome of Buenos Aires

The Parrot

The Parrot · 2023

Over the course of a few summer days, Lucía is left in charge of a house in order to take care of a parrot. As she comes up with a small domestic routine, from the neighboring gardens come the sound of celebrations, a film and children pretending to be spies.

El conductor

El conductor · 2026

MovieThrillerCrime

Nexo

MovieHorrorMystery

Renzo, an aspiring writer struggling with his work and marriage, finds himself on an oneiric journey where he must face his fears in order to restore his life.

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The Backyard

The Backyard · 2020

A normal day in a dystopian world.

Director

Frost

MovieFantasyHorror

One night, a deaf girl wittnesses how a monster kills her mother and while she runs away, she finds a suspeciously helpful man with hidden intentions

Sound Editor

Río blanco

Río blanco · 2024

MovieThrillerMystery

A hunter, in his eagerness to hunt a pig, finds himself trapped in the forest.

Producer

Vorágine

Vorágine · 2026

Vorágine portrays the lives of a group of young dancers over a year and a half in post-pandemic Buenos Aires. Through rehearsals, conversations, breaks in the dressing rooms, and encounters around the city, the film captures the emotional and physical intensity of artistic labor. Set within the everyday rhythm of creation, between passion and exhaustion, between staying and leaving, Vorágine is an intimate document about the essence of youth.

Sound Editor

Sarfo

MovieDocumentary

The life of a racehorse, days before an important racing competition at the Hippodrome of Buenos Aires

Sound Assistant

The Parrot

The Parrot · 2023

Over the course of a few summer days, Lucía is left in charge of a house in order to take care of a parrot. As she comes up with a small domestic routine, from the neighboring gardens come the sound of celebrations, a film and children pretending to be spies.

Sound Assistant

El conductor

El conductor · 2026

MovieThrillerCrime

Sound Designer

Nexo

MovieHorrorMystery

Renzo, an aspiring writer struggling with his work and marriage, finds himself on an oneiric journey where he must face his fears in order to restore his life.

Sound Director

Costilla

Costilla · 2026

Costilla leads a solitary life: he works in a workshop, isolated from others, and in the afternoons he takes care of his deceased parents’ house. The arrival of Flecha, his new partner, opens the door to an unexpected connection.

Sound Editor

Plagio

MovieThrillerCrime

A couple breaks into a house to steal a valuable painting. Things will not turn out the way they were planned.

Sound Designer

Habitantes

Habitantes · 2024

Sound

The Uncovering

MovieThrillerHorror

Helena and Xavier, a French entrepreneurial couple, are on the verge of winning the bid for an ambitious mining project in Argentina. But when the hidden forces behind the uncovering begin to surface, the promise of power and progress turns into a desperate struggle for survival.

Sound Director

Remember Me Always

Remember Me Always · 2026

Remember Me Always

MovieDramaCrime

One night, Tomás, a hotel manager with a criminal past, confronts a guest playing loud music in the lobby, who claims to be waiting for her lover. He soon learns his former criminal group, led by his brother, wants to capture her to force the lover -apparently hiding in the hotel- to appear. In an effort to protect this unknown woman, Tomás faces the past he's tried to escape.

Sound Editor

Mientras todo esto pasa

Mientras todo esto pasa · 2025

Mientras todo esto pasa

MovieComedyDrama

Sound Assistant

Civilization Blues

Civilization Blues · 2024

Civilization Blues

MovieCrimeMystery

A detective must face his past to solve the crime of the present.

Sound

Siervos de Dios

Siervos de Dios · 2026

Siervos de Dios

A man confesses to a priest that he is going to commit a crime, leaving the priest with a dilemma that will force him to rethink his convictions.

Sound Editor

Your Body in My Room

Your Body in My Room · 2025

Your Body in My Room

Knowing they will never see each other again, two former lovers are acutely aware of the passing of time.

Sound Designer

Guía turistica para el mal tiempo

Guía turistica para el mal tiempo · 2025

Guía turistica para el mal tiempo

Sound Designer

Between Mars and Earth

Between Mars and Earth · 2023

Between Mars and Earth

MovieScience FictionDrama

In the Christmas holidays, a mysterious extra-terrestrial force bursts into the life of a suburban couple on the brink of divorce. However, none of them notices this otherwordly presence, so this entity will have to live with them in this grey, sad and lifeless home, observing as their relationship finally desintegrates.

Sound Editor

Adán & Esteban

Adán & Esteban · 2022

Adán & Esteban

Two former high school classmates return from a night of heavy partying. The closeness of their friendship long ago quickly metamorphoses into a present day battle between tenderness and desire. As the pair open their minds to each other, dawn sheds light on their anxieties, which soon evaporate under the sun's rays.

Sound Director

At Peace

MovieDramaCrime

A lonely engineer is intercepted by a young thief, to whom he offers to give all his money with the condition that they share a dinner together. This leads to a conversation that will put their thoughts and faith in life to test.

Sound Recordist

El amigo de Cleopatra

El amigo de Cleopatra · 2025

El amigo de Cleopatra

Homework, an unexpected Cleopatra and a normal day that falls apart.

Sound Designer

Lola no es un apodo para Dolores

Lola no es un apodo para Dolores · 2023

Lola no es un apodo para Dolores

Sound Director

The Great Disgust

The Great Disgust · 2026

The Great Disgust

When insects around the house grow increasingly aggressive, a young man’s controlling father releases a small frog to solve the problem.

Sound