Since completing his studies in film production at Concordia University, Roberto Santaguida’s films and videos have been shown at more than 400 international festivals, including Tampere Film Festival (Finland), CPH: DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Denmark), Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (Brazil), Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival (United States), transmediale (Germany), and Message to Man (Russia). Roberto is the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award, the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany.

Roberto wants to bring marginalized groups back to the agora by the very technology that tends to screen them from the vital discussion of their survival and fulfillment in society. In lieu of constructed journalistic-style plot points, his documentary projects offer insight by briefly entering a participant’s life, gently exploring a chosen moment, isolated from a broader narrative, but showing all of the subtleties of expression contained within such a moment. He has pledged to provide a supportive environment to underrepresented groups to express the inner workings of their realities. With past participants, Roberto has applied the principle of never having fear or shame in the dignity of our language, experience and knowledge.