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Roberto Santiago

Spain1999 12min 35mm Color

Synopsis

Roulette is a black comedy relating to a group of housewives. They meet in a kitchen to take coffee, talk about supermarket offers, and shoot a Smith&Wesson calibre 38 special band gun.

Diretor

Roberto Santiago

Madrid, 1968. Studied Information Sciences at the University, in the Writing School and in several cinema and TV Schools, like TAI, Filmayer, CEV, Piamonte Project and The Contemporary Art Museum. At the age of 19 he began to work as a scriptwriter for TV. He then went on to write for the theatre(Enrique Llovet Prize 1998), Children’s fiction(Edebe Prize 1999) and various publicity promotions. Also, he has directed a number of TV advertisements. is his first short film.