Music videos, documentary and brand work, shot and directed by Santiago Bolívar.
Advertising, brands and music. Every project starts from a set of references and finds its own image from there.
Editorial project · Camper · 2025
A printed portrait series about people who have worn Camper's Pelotas for years, some since 1990: a graphic designer, a chef, a biologist, an art director. Each pair becomes a small archive of a life. Text and photography by Santiago Bolívar; graphic design and curation by Zöe Matalon.
Music video · TIMEBANK, andrgrnd & Bastian Ponce · 2023
Director and close visual collaborator of TIMEBANK.
Winner · Best Film Project · SAE Institute Creative Media Awards 2021
Music video for Celso ft. Rubee.
Documentary · Photography and video
Photography and video documenting Mexican cultural heritage for Fomento Cultural Citibanamex, under Arturo González de Alba. Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art, Fomento Cultural Banamex Collection, 20 years.
owner & creative director · el raval, barcelona
taste true fidelity.
I opened a restaurant and ran it like a film. For two years Hi-Fried was my set: I built the brand from zero, made its images, hosted its music nights and decided how every corner of it looked and sounded.
A heavy wordmark, a symbol of three bars and the line “taste true fidelity.”, borrowed from hi-fi audio: food served with the care of a good record.
Fried chicken and waffles, DJ sets, pop-ups with Veridis Quo and Oblicuo Hi-Fi Bar, and the people who came back every week. Every image was made in-house.
Teaching, festivals, awards and industry work.
I teach screenwriting: how to develop an idea into a story, and how to write it for the screen.
Masterclass · Panel
Masterclass and panel on fantaterror with the actor Adán Latonda. A Coruña.
2026
University lecture
Lecture on screenwriting within the session “Turismo y cine en el desarrollo de territorios”, part of the course Gestión cultural y del patrimonio artístico, Department of Art History and Theory.
2022
University lecture
Lecture on screenwriting at the Faculty of Education.
2024
Festivals have been part of my work for more than ten years: first behind the scenes on the team in Morelia, then as a guest, a speaker, a presenter of my own projects and, this year, a member of an international jury.
Winner · Best Film Project
My music video Feels Empty for Celso ft. Rubee won Best Film Project at SAE Institute's Creative Media Awards. · Watch ↗
2021
International jury
I served on the international jury of the festival's third edition, held in Blanes from 5 to 11 October 2026. Over a week we watched and debated the films in competition, fiction, documentary and animated shorts from around the world, and decided the awards. Judging other people's work closely is one of the best schools for my own.
2026
Masterclass · Panel
At A Coruña's festival of fantastic and horror cinema, held at the Fórum Metropolitano, I gave a masterclass and took part in a panel on fantaterror, Spanish fantastic horror cinema, alongside the actor Adán Latonda. Genre is close to my own writing: my feature in development Dante & Beatriz is a supernatural horror story.
2026
Project in development
I presented a feature project in development at the Festival de Málaga, the leading showcase for Spanish-language cinema, where new projects meet producers, distributors and financiers.
2026
Special guest
Invited as a special guest to three editions of this IMDb-qualifying festival, a week of screenings, masterclasses, Q&As and industry meetings at the historic Olympia Cinema in Cannes.
2023 · 2024 · 2026
Festival team
Where it started. I worked on the team of one of Mexico's most important film festivals, a key platform for Mexican cinema and new directors, across three editions.
2015 · 2016 · 2021
Development · Screenwriting
Production development and screenwriting for the Madrid production company.
Madrid · now
Production company
Screenwriter and director of independent and commercial work, from concept to visual storytelling.
2024 — now
Santiago Bolívar is a Mexican writer and director based in Paris. He works across advertising, music videos and fiction, and develops productions and screenplays for the Madrid company Fonofox SL.
For two years he owned and creatively directed Hi-Fried, a restaurant in Barcelona's El Raval, building its brand, its image and its music nights from scratch.
His music video Feels Empty (Celso ft. Rubee) won Best Film Project at the SAE Institute Creative Media Awards 2021. He has directed music videos for TIMEBANK and documented Mexican cultural heritage for Fomento Cultural Citibanamex. In 2026 he served on the international jury of the Blanes – Costa Brava International Film Festival and gave a masterclass at Lóstrego in A Coruña.
He has lectured on screenwriting at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Universitat de Barcelona, and works as a photographer, shooting on 35mm film.