Santos Arrué is a Guatemalan-Honduran-American writer/director born and raised in Los Angeles. She earned her B.F.A. in Film/Video from CalArts and an M.F.A. in Directing from the AFI Conservatory. Her work explores identity, foreignness and displacement within community. Her short film Azul, created in collaboration with The Lady Lowriders Car Club in Los Angeles, screened at LALIFF and the New York Latino Film Festival. A 2025 Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today Fellow, her short "Azul" screened at the Hola Mexico Film Festival where it won Best Short Film. Santos is currently developing her debut feature film, How to Stop the Sky from Wanting, which was a 2025 Cine Qua Non Storylines Lab participant and was awarded with the 2025 SFFILM Rainin Grant for screenwriting.

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