Ilda Santiago
Ilda Santiago | |
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 Ilda Santiago at the 2025 Rio Film Festival. | |
| Born | 1966[1] |
| Occupations | Festival director, programmer, distributor, producer |
| Years active | 1980–present |
Ilda Santiago is a Brazilian film producer and the director of the Rio Film Festival. Santiago is a co-founder and partner of the company Grupo Estação, which aims to expand access to independent cinema in Brazil. She is also a co-founder and the managing director of the international production company, Janeiro Studios. Santiago is most known for her role as executive director of the Rio Film Festival and for championing the Brazilian film industry nationally and internationally.[2] In 2013, she also served as a juror for the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.
Career
In the 1980s, she became a co-founder of Grupo Estação, with the aim of expanding access to independent cinema in Brazil.[3] The group began with a single screening room in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, later expanding to several theaters specializing in art-house cinema and independent productions.[4][3]
Ilda Santiago became one of the founders of the Rio Film Festival in 1987.[5][6] The festival promotes Brazilian and Latin American cinema.[1] She is the long-time executive director of the festival, having served in the role for over 20 years.[5][7][8] As director of the festival, she is one of its two principal selectors.[9][10][2]
She is also the producer of the films, Concrete Jungle (Serva Concreta) and Vitória (Victoria).[6]
In 2013, she was a juror for the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.[11][12] She also served as a foreign correspondent to the festival in 2020.[13]
In 2024, Santiago became a co-founder and managing director of the production company, Janeiro Studios,[6] a collaboration between companies in various countries for producing film and television series throughout Latin America.[6]
References
- 1 2 3 Viola, Kamille (December 19, 2025). "Ilda Santiago, director of the Rio Film Festival, is the Carioca of the Year in culture". Veja Rio. Retrieved 2026-01-06.
- 1 2 Ruiz-Kellersmann, Cristina (Jan 11, 2011). "de Berlim" [From Berlin]. OGlobo. ProQuest 831324663. Retrieved May 8, 2026.
Ilda Santiago, director of the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, was recently in Berlin presenting 17 films at the II Première Brasil, held at the House of World Cultures. Ilda is mainly familiar with the theaters in Berlin that screen films from the Berlinale. She mentions the Zoo-Palast in the Charlottenburg district, which was the epicenter of the Festival during her first visits: "The first time I came to Berlin, in 1998
- 1 2 Matheou, Demetrios (2010-08-05). "Letter from Rio". The Faber Book of New South American Cinema. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-27169-6.
- ↑ "Ilda Santiago and the Rio Film Festival". Academia Internacional de Cinema. Photos by Ivanildo Carmo. 8 August 2017. Retrieved 2026-01-06.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - 1 2 "Ilda Santiago". Filme B. Retrieved 2026-01-06.
- 1 2 3 4 Roxborough, Scott (2024-06-27). "Mymama, Beta Team Up on Brazilian Outfit Janeiro Studios". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2026-05-06.
- ↑ Salgado, Lucas (1 October 2025). "Rio Film Festival Director Discusses the Programme". O Globo. Retrieved 2026-01-06.
- ↑ Ionova, Ana (2019-12-09). "'The government is strangling cinema': Brazil film industry fights for survival". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-05-06.
When Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, slashed public funding for the arts earlier this year, the director of the country's top film festival knew her event was in trouble. "We realized we wouldn't have the funding to put together a festival … We were hit really hard," said Ilda Santiago, who has been running the Rio international film festival for two decades and had faced years of eroding local government support.
- ↑ Faver, Viviane (Sep 30, 2011). "Maratona de cinema no rio" [Film Marathon in Rio]. Jornal do Commercio. ProQuest 894852295. Retrieved 9 May 2026. [To hold this edition, the festival director, Ilda Santiago, spent a year touring various festivals around the world, receiving films from various countries, selecting both the most awaited, from renowned directors... and betting on little-known directors]
- ↑ Marcia, Erthal (23 Sep 2006). "Rio: capital mundial do cinema" [Rio: World capital of cinema]. Jornal do Commercio. Rio de Janeiro. ProQuest 335371492. Retrieved 9 May 2026. [Ilda knows the responsibility of signing the artistic direction of an event of this size. There is a board that selects, many patrons of the festival give tips, but in the end, only what this movie buff, with a license, approves with her partner Walkiria Barbosa is included in the program... Ilda hasn't seen all 380 movies, but she can count on her fingers the ones she hasn't seen.]
- ↑ Nogueira, Diogo Vital Silva (2015). Relatório de Estágio na Instituição Berlinda - Uma Análise de Conteúdo de Três Artigos da Imprensa Alemã Nos 25 Anos da Queda do Muro de Berlim (PDF) (Thesis). Portugal: Universidade do Porto. Retrieved 9 May 2026.
- ↑ "The members of the Un Certain Regard and Camera d'or Juries". Festival de Cannes. 2013-04-22. Retrieved 2026-05-09.
- ↑ "The Official Selection 2020". Festival de Cannes. 2020-06-02. Retrieved 2026-05-09.
And I would like to pay tribute to all those who make the Festival possible... to our foreign correspondents Didier Allouch, Joël Chapron, Isabelle Glachant, Agnès Poirier, José Maria Riba, Yuka Sakano and Ilda Santiago.