Santiago 'Chago' Benet
Nacimiento : 1981-04-13, Santurce, Puerto Rico
Camera Operator
Para ayudar a su orfanato de escasos recursos, un hombre y un grupo de jóvenes se asocian al gruñón capitán de un barco para competir en un lucrativo torneo de pesca.
Director of Photography
Comedia que ilustra el poder de la humanidad en mundo fragmentado. Los sueños de 5 extraños que viajan a Puerto Rico, son puestos en pausa cuando las autoridades migratorias los envían "EL Cuartito".
Cinematography
The documentary "We Would All Be Kings" recovers the voice and humanity of a marginalized community and captures the beginning of a rehabilitation process, through the participation of 7 inmates in a creative writing workshop. The motivation and transformation witnessed in the participants are the driving force of a documentary that intertwines their testimonies with fiction short films based on the autobiographical stories they wrote
Cinematography
Two months after Hurricane Maria landed on the shores of Puerto Rico, the power remains out and the infrastructure continues to collapse. Junior, a ten-year-old boy, is summoned by his mother to search for the medicine his grandfather so desperately needs. He puts on a blue cape, made of the tarp that covers his roof, to overcome the obstacles in his journey and save his grandfather’s life.
Cinematography
125 years of music in Puerto Rico from 1893 to 2018.
Cinematography
El Secretario de Salud de Puerto Rico, el Dr. Eduardo Suárez, no está de acuerdo con la nueva reforma de salud que el Gobernador le impone al país. Al mismo tiempo, su esposa, con quien ha estado casado más de 30 años y con quien tiene seis hijos, ha sido diagnosticada con Alzheimer. Eduardo se enfrenta a dos crisis, una de país y una en su hogar. Con el tiempo la enfermedad toma por completo a su esposa y Eduardo, quién dejó su puesto en el gobierno para dedicarse a su familia, se ve en la necesidad de continuar con su vida. Sumergido en el dolor que provoca la enfermedad, no solo al paciente sino a los familiares y aquellos más cercanos, Eduardo comienza una nueva relación amorosa que le devuelve las ganas de vivir.
Cinematography
The story of the basketball players that represented Puerto Rico at the San Juan's 1979 Pan Am Games.
Cinematography
Un arqueólogo se obsesiona con un hallazgo inexplicable que sacude al mundo. Descubre la forma de un astronauta contemporáneo en un antiguo sitio arqueológico.
Director of Photography
Manolo, un detective privado especializado en casos de adulterio, espía y graba el amorío de sus amigos del pasado, Carlos y Migdalia, mientras al mismo tiempo intenta reconstruir mentalmente los eventos que culminaron en el homicidio de su hermano gemelo, Frank.
Director of Photography
Diez años después de que un maremoto destruyera el colegio de primaria de un pueblo con todos los niños en su interior, un joven decide levantar una misteriosa estructura con los restos del colegio dando lugar al resurgimiento de recuerdos y viejas pasiones.
Cinematography
Carmín sueña con algún día irse a vivir a la capital con su madre. Ese sueño se desmorona cuando la madre se muda con su nuevo esposo a los Estados Unidos. En pleno despertar adolescente, Carmín se ve forzada a permanecer en Barranquitas, un pueblito montañoso, junto a su abuela, una mujer dura, conservadora y de escasos recursos para la crianza. Solo la llegada del padre después de años en la cárcel comenzará a atenuar el malestar de Carmín. La relación, sin embargo, traerá sus propias ambigüedades y complejidades. Ahora la joven deberá aprender a vivir entre el abandono y el cuidado; entre el deseo, el amor y experimentar la más cruda ausencia.
Director of Photography
Jimena Silva, a young author, struggles with herself in order to finish her latest piece. Just three weeks shy of her upcoming deadline, Jimena searches for what she considers are the crucial moments in every relationship. Jimena drowns in the depths of her own experiences as she tries to find her Muse.
Director of Photography
Yahaira is an unwed mom that has to take care of her child during work hours, something that has happened before.
Second Unit Cinematographer
A coming of age story about a 16-year-old boy who finds himself searching for escape in the island of Puerto Rico after his mother leaves him and his sister with his grandparents in a surf town. His fascination with a hula hoop model leads him to steal his grandfather’s car to meet the object of his affection in person.
Director of Photography
When an eight year old asks his mom "where do babies come from?", he is forced to embark on an adventure to reverse a spell he did himself.
Director of Photography
Eneida Santiago doesn’t know she will not get in time to see her granddaughter’s piano recital. Several characters converge in this suspense drama that exposes the fragility of human relationships and interpersonal relationships.
Director of Photography
Juan llega a casa de Gloria después de ser botado por su novia. Gloria lo ayuda a conseguir otra pareja.
Director of Photography
An interracial couple, Seba and Cecilia, have lived a fully creative life as sculptor and photographer and have enjoyed traveling the world. But now that Cecilia has cancer, she fears she won't be able to enjoy the life she's had and wishes she could travel again. Seba uses his creative skills as artist to magically transport Cecilia on a journey through memories they've shared.
Art Direction
Homage to Puerto Rican composer Catalino Curet Alonso, or as his friends and fans call him, "Tite", representing how widely influential the composer remains.
Director of Photography
To confront the harsh reality of being accused for sexually molesting his own daughter, a man seeks escape in his mind.
Gaffer
An old man takes care of his senile wife.
Cinematography
Andrés is a nine year old boy musician who plays the treble. On the way to a recital with his parents and in the midst of endless traffic, he tries to practice the melody he’ll be playing. Frustrated by the traffic, the heat, and that he can’t play the piece correctly, Andrés bursts in anger, throwing his instrument, which stops time as it touches the floor.
Electrician
En 1952, el general Fulgencio Batista orquestó un golpe de estado en Cuba, tomó el control del gobierno del país y suspendió las elecciones. Su corrupta dictadura estaba respaldada por un ejército de 40.000 hombres, pero un joven abogado llamado Fidel Castro intentó incitar a la rebelión popular asaltando el cuartel Moncada el 26 de julio de 1953. El ataque no tuvo éxito y Castro pasó dos años en la cárcel antes de ir al exilio en México. Entre tanto, un joven idealista argentino llamado Ernesto Guevara se había involucrado en la actividad política de Guatemala. En 1954, cuando el gobierno legítimo de Jacobo Álvarez fue depuesto por una operación militar organizada por la CIA, Guevara escapó a México. Un conocido de Guatemala le puso en contacto con un grupo de revolucionarios cubanos en el exilio.
Gaffer
A young clown decides to abandon the small-town circus he works for in order to try and make it in a big city.
Director of Photography
Documentary on the most important pro-independence organization in the occupied territory known as Puerto Rico.