ABOUT

Marco Alejandro Santiago is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker - writer, director, and producer of highly relevant and entertaining film and digital media content for the global audience. 

Most recently he produced the theatrically released feature crime-drama WATER & POWER, a product of the Sundance Feature Film Labs and executive produced by Edward James Olmos. The film achieved a limited theatrical release through AMC Independent and digital distribution on Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Hulu, and Vudu through Sundance Artists Services in 2015. 

Previous to Water & Power, Marco wrote, directed, and produced XTRACTION, a female-centric action-thriller short film that screened in a variety of festivals, including the HBO Latino Film Festival in NYC and the Palm Springs Short Fest. 

He is currently in development of several feature film and TV projects. His latest TV Project in development, THE RECOVERY AGENTS, has been named as a finalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab, 2018, and 2021, and has won or placed in numerous writing competitions listed below. His latest feature film project in development, FIGHTER MAFIA, is an adaptation of the Pulitzer nominated author’s biography of Col. John Boyd, titled BOYD: The Fighter Pilot who Changed the Art of War. 

Mr. Santiago was a multi-fellow of the NALIP Writers Lab and Producers Academy and is a graduate of the UCLA Graduate Professional Writers and Producers Program. He attended Arizona State University, where he studied Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mathematics, History, as well as Aeronautical Management, where he obtained his flight training and has since accumulated over 500 hrs of flight time. He also has a degree in business from Western International University. 

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Currently, Marco is working on his glider add-on in the Schleicher  ASK-21 glider.