REVA SANTO
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Trust issues (2022)
Written, Directed, Produced by Reva Santo // Produced by Sydni Chustz // Executive Produced by Luchita Hurtado and Cassian Elwes // Cinematography by Ava Rikki // Original Score by Avila Santo // Edited by Sieanna Williams and Reva Santo
A young musician struggles to regain her footing as she faces her past with sexual assault.
Pan African Film Festival 2021, Seattle Queer Film Festival 2022, Harlem Film Festival 2023, Pulling Focus Film Festival 2023 (Received Honorable Mention), Panavision "New Filmmaker Program Grant" (2019)
REMEMBERING (2020)
Directed, Edited by Reva Santo
A short film composed of collaged words, photographs, videos, and performances. The artist reflects on diaspora, family, and life cycles through this visual meditation.
Consejos de la Isla (2017)
Directed, Edited, Produced by Reva Santo // Associate Producer & Editor Tabina Bajwa // Original Score by Avila Santo
Experimental short film amplifying the voices of Afro-Cuban women, and their sacred values and traditions.
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)
Wishes for Mom (2017)
Directed, Edited, Produced by Reva Santo // Poem by Sojourner Ahebee // Cinematography by Erin Ramirez // Score by Avila Santo
Shown: LA Municipal Art Gallery Juried Exhibition (2018)
A Place They Call Earth (2018)
Written & Directed by Reva Santo // Edited by Kathy Choi // Score by Avila Santo & Andy Schuyler
A recently departed human spirit recounts its experience on Earth to the entity of light. Filmed in Japan.
Celestial Playtime (2019)
An exploration of identity, play, and confusion.
Directed & Edited by Reva Santo
Music by Reva Santo & Ruby Solomita
La Llorona (2018)
Written, Directed & Edited by Reva Santo // Produced by Jon Kent Ethridge III // Cinematography by William Rouse // Original Score by Avila Santo
Was it a dream or a visitation? A woman recounts an unwelcome visitor who came in the dead of the night.
Home Is ___ (2016)
Directed, Edited, Produced by Reva Santo
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.
Shown: Media & Idea Lab Film Festival (2017), Columbia University Thesis Showcase (2016), Form no Form 24 Hour Film Platform (2020)
