
Acting
Sandra Santiago
Sinaloa, Mexico
Sandra Santiago was born in Sinaloa, Mexico and is a graduate of La Sorbonne University in Paris. She has starred alongside award-winning actors Brian Cox, Danny Glover, Danny Trejo, and Angela Bassett.
Acting credits
6.3Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory sees his life transformed through a newly found bond with his baby grandson.
The Etruscan Smile
2018
NRA hotel maid with a shadowy past falls for her handsome but taken coworker, unwittingly stepping into a dangerous game of desire and betrayal.
Unrequited
2026
5.7When she’s deported to México, Claudia must choose between reconciling with her estranged father or partnering with a dangerous smuggler to return to the U.S.
Hostile Border
2015
4.2The story of J, a rich, party boy thrust into the workaday world by his father as the lowest man on the totem pole in a company he technically owns.
Pendejo (Idiot)
2013
4.5Life changed for Alejandro Reis - Alex - in just a few brief moments when he discovers that he is not an American citizen. His parents brought him across the Mexican border when he was just months old. Flora Hendricks, on the other hand is born in Missouri. She decides to run away from home. Alex finds himself deported to Mexico On a seeming parallel track, Flora is arrested for shoplifting. And put in the same deportation bus with Alex. Once on Mexican soil Alex and Flora find out quickly that they are way out of their depth. They learn quickly that Tijuana and most of the other border towns are ultra violent places that are overrun by dangerous, warring criminal factions.
Foreign Land
2016
1.0Three arrested and detained undocumented immigrants must navigate the system to fight impending deportation.
America; I Too
2017
5.0“Farah,” a bread seller, walks the streets of a Middle Eastern town, while an American military vehicle, surrounded by soldiers, slowly passes by. A moment’s silence. Then, a devastating explosion. Civilians are bloodied, wounded. The horrors of war. “Farah” looks around aghast and wailing. But nothing here is quite what it seems. In fact, “Farah” is a character played by an aspiring actress called Laila. And this isn’t Iraq, but a replica village erected on the Fort Irwin army base in California, used to train American troops before being sent abroad. Laila believes her acting talents are being wasted away in this arid simulation, where female role-players are limited to mute, background roles. She takes things much more seriously. Laila plots her way out.
Shako Mako
2019