filmography
NÃO AO MARCO TEMPORAL (2025)-----------------
Lyric video for the song in celebration of the news that the majority of Brazil’s Supreme Court judges voted NO on Marco Temporal! In solidarity and prayer with and for those at the frontlines of this battle. In support of Indigenous communities throughout Brazil, and honoring the sacred and endangered Amazons rainforest.
Directed, Edited and Produced by Reva Santo
Music + Lyrics by Esperanza Spalding
Full Credits listed on Youtube
.Full Credits listed on Youtube
CONSEJOS DE LA ISLA (2017)---------------------
Documentary short film amplifying the voices of Afro-Cuban
women, and their sacred values and traditions.
Directed, Edited, Produced by Reva Santo
Associate Producer Tabina Bajwa
Shown: Solo show at Studio 1.0.6. Gallery (2017), “Who Owns Black Art: Questions of Cultural Ownership” curated by Zeal Press and Superposition Gallery for Miami Art Basel (2019), Form No Form 24 Hour Film Platform (2020)
LOVE DOCUMENTS (2019)------------------------
An incomplete collection of memories, statements, and beliefs on the topic of romantic love.
Directed, Edited by Reva Santo
A PLACE THEY CALL EARTH (2018)-----------------
A recently departed human spirit recounts its experience
on Earth to the entity of light. Filmed in Japan.
Written & Directed by Reva Santo
Edited by Kathy Choi
---------------------------TRUST ISSUES (2022)
A young musician struggles to regain her footing as she faces her past with sexual assault.
Written, Directed, Produced by Reva Santo
Produced by Sydni Chustz
Executive Produced by Luchita Hurtado and Cassian Elwes
Pan African Film Festival 2021, Seattle Queer Film Festival 2022, Harlem Film Festival 2023, Pulling Focus Film Festival 2023 (Received Honorable Mention),
---------------------------REMEMBERING (2020)
Documentary short film composed of collaged words, photographs,
videos, and performances. The artist reflects on diaspora,
family, and life cycles through this visual meditation.
Directed, Edited by Reva Santo
Shown: PRIZM Art fair. Full essay published in Queer Afro Latinx Anthology
------------------------WISHES FOR MOM (2017)
Visual poem expressing the words of poet Sojourner Ahebee
Directed, Edited, Produced by Reva Santo
Poem by Sojourner Ahebee
Shown: LA Municipal Art Gallery Juried Exhibition (2018)
------------------------------Home Is _ (2016)
Motivated by the death of her grandfather, the artist explores her absence at the time of his death and her fragmented ideas of “home” as a result of her transnational, multi-ethnic, queer, category bending existence.
Directed, Edited, Produced by Reva Santo
Shown: Media & Idea Lab Film Festival (2017), Columbia University Thesis Showcase (2016), Form no Form 24 Hour Film Platform (2020)
Directed, Edited, Produced by Reva Santo
Shown: Media & Idea Lab Film Festival (2017), Columbia University Thesis Showcase (2016), Form no Form 24 Hour Film Platform (2020)
------------------------------La Llorona (2018)
Was it a dream or a visitation? A woman recounts an unwelcome visitor who came in the dead of the night.
Written, Directed & Edited by Reva Santo
Produced by Jon Kent Ethridge III
Produced by Jon Kent Ethridge III