Education
Dos Santos studied in Buenos Aires and Barcelona before relocating to London in 1998, where he attended the National Film and Television School.
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He has also shot a number of short and directed music videos. He is considered part of the New Queer Cinema movement. He started filming short films like Meteoritos, Watching Planes, Axolotll, Snapshots and Sand.
In 2006, he wrote and directed his debut long feature (full title - Historia adolescente en medio de la nada) about young musicians in drug use and sexual exploration.
The film was partially funded by the United Kingdom Film Council and was nominated for Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema / Dramatic in Sundance Festival. Foreign the Cinema Reloaded project, in 2011 he directed the short film Random Strangers.
Achievements
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Glue 2006: Won MovieZone Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) 2006: Won Best Local Film at Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2006: Won Young Audience Award at Nantes Three Continents Festival 2006: Nominated for Golden Montgolfiere at the Nantes Three Continents Festival 2007: Won Best First Feature - World Cinema at the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Unmade Bedfordshire 2009: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema / Dramatic during Sundance Film Festival 2009: Won Crystal Arrow at Les Arcs European Film Festival 2009: Won Quebec Film Critics Award / Special Mention at Montréal Festival of New Cinema.
