Nidia Santiago, of Mexican origin, studied in France, where she fell in love with cinema. She specialized in film production at Paris X, then at ESEC. Her first short film production, is Oh Willy... by Emma de Swaef and Marc Roels, launched her definitively on the path of animated films. The desire for absolute editorial freedom, leads her to fund Ikki Films in 2011. Her taste for international cinema, brings her to produce directors from all horizons. In her productions we find the titles Chulyen, histoire de corbeau by Cerise Lopez and Agnès Patron (nominated for the Emile Awards 2017); Negative Space by Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter (FIPRESCI Award at the Annecy Festival, Grand Prix at Animamundi (Brazil), nominated for the Oscars in 2018; Riviera by Jonas Schloesing (Grand Prix GIFF 2019), Sheep, Wolf and Cup of Tea by Marion Lacourt (Prix Emile Reynaud 2019), Sick, Sick, Sick by Alice Furtado (LM, selected at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2019), Horacio by Caroline Cherrier (Clermont-Ferrand, Annecy 2021 Unifrance Jury Award 2021), Terra Incognita by Adrian Dexter and Pernille Kjaer (Telluride Film Festival 2021) and more recently Granny’s sexual life by Emilie Pigeard and Urska Djukic (César for Best Animated Short Film 2023, and Best European Animated Short Film 2022). Currently, she is producing Amélie or the Character of rain directed by Liane-Cho Han and Maïlys Vallade. In parallel to her activity as a producer, she is a lecturer in various committees, and occasionally intervenes in the schools Les Gobelins and ESEC. She is a member of the Unifrance and Procirep-Angoa committees. In 2020, she obtained, along with Edwina Liard, the Procirep Producer Award.
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