Ana Luisa Santos

Ana Luisa Santos (born 03 July 1985), is a pioneer in the wildlife film making industry as the first female Portuguese wildlife filmmaker publicly known. 
She started her career working as a Civil Engineer and then worked in the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development (CDRp) in Portugal. Santos also participated as a volunteer in the program European Voluntary Service in Turkey. 
After moving to The Netherlands, Santos started her career as a wildlife filmmaker working on multiple wildlife documentaries for Japan's public broadcaster NHK which included The Paternal Bond: Barbary Macaques (2015) in Morocco, ; Pyrenees Mountain (2017) in Spain and the Japanese re-versioning of A Wild Fox Life (2019) in The Netherlands. 
In the Netherlands, Santos worked for the cinema wildlife films Holland: Natuur in de Delta (2015) for which she co-filmed the closing sequences using the self built Ateles Films drone; and Wild Amsterdam (2018) in which she also featured in a scene with seagulls in Amsterdam.
Santos also worked on the BBC Natural World Jungle Animal Hospital (2015) and for her independent Ateles Films production, which was aired worldwide on Nat Geo WILD and Arte, called Return of the Spider Monkeys (2016) narrated by Hayley Atwell that follows the life of an orphaned spider monkey called Infinity after she is released back into the jungle of Guatemala. 
She directed and wrote A Wild Fox Life (2019) filmed in the Netherlands which is about the life cycle of a red fox family that lives in the Oostvaardersplassen nature reserve. It was premiered in France 5 (France Televisions), NHK and ServusTV (Terra Mater). 
Since 2015, she has served as an official ambassador for Transcontinenta, representing various brands alongside Michael Sanderson. From 2015 to 2021, she also held an ambassadorship with Degreef and Partner.
In 2022, Luisa was selected for the inaugural Jackson Wild Cinematography Lab, a collaboration between Jackson Wild, the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), and the Wildlife Society of Filmmakers. She is a Collective Referred Member of The Jackson Wild Collective, a Jackson Wild Fellow, and a participant in the Her Wild Vision Initiative.
==Education==
She studied Civil Engineer (BSc) and Product Design Engineering (MsC.) in the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL) in Portugal.
==Filmography==
===Films===
* (2015): The Paternal Bond: Barbary Macaques, Camera assistant, TV Documentary
* (2015): Holland: Natuur in de Delta, Camera assistant, Cinema Film
* (2016): Jungle Animal Hospital, Camera assistant, TV Series
* (2016): Return of the Spider Monkeys, Co-Producer, TV Documentary
* (2017): Mosquito, Camera assistant, TV Documentary
* (2017): Pyrenees Mountain, Lammergeier, the bone crashers, soar up high above the mountains, Co-Producer/Cinematographer, TV Documentary
* (2017): Darwin's amazing animals: Barbary Macaque, Camera assistant, TV Series
* (2018): Wild Amsterdam (aka. De Wilde Stad), Herself/Camera assistant, Cinema Film
* (2019): A Wild Fox Life, Director/Cinematographer, TV Documentary
* (2020): Spider Monkey for Sale, Producer, Micro Movie
* (2021): Wild Nature (in production), Director/Cinematographer, TV Documentary
== Books ==
* (2017) Picture: De Kat in De Wilde Stad. Netherlands: EMS Films, Ignas van Schaick. 
* (2012) Conference Paper No. ESDA2012-82764: “Engineering Systems Design and Analysis”, France. 
* (2011) Book Cover: Proceedings of SIM 2011: International Conference on Sustainable Intelligent Manufacturing. Portugal: IST Press. 
* (2011) Conference Paper: “A Ecodesign Tool for Sustainable manufacturing”. Portugal: IST Press. 
* (2008) Mention: Alburitel – A Terra e o Povo. Portugal. David Simoes Rodrigues. 
==In the media==
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Category:1985 births
Category:Filmmakers
Category:Nature photographers