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name: "Nidia Santiago"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nidia-santiago"
fi1m_id: "nidia-santiago"
tmdb_id: 1896997
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "18 September 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T04:03:59.409669+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Nidia Santiago

## Identity

Nidia Santiago

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nidia-santiago
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nidia-santiago
- **TMDB ID:** 1896997
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1896997

Producer. Born 18 September 1981 in Oaxaca, Mexico.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 18 September 1981, Oaxaca, Mexico
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1896997

## Biography

Nidia Santiago is a Mexican-French film producer specialising in animation. Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1981, she moved to France at the age of 18. She studied film production at the Université Paris Nanterre and at the ESEC film school. In 2011 she founded Ikki Films with Edwina Liard.

Her early productions include the animated short *Oh, Willy...* (2012). Subsequent shorts produced or co-produced by Ikki Films include *Negative Space* (2017), nominated for an Academy Award, *Granny's Sexual Life* (2021), which won a César Award, and *Chulyen, histoire de corbeau* (2016). Santiago's first feature as co-producer is the animated film *Little Amélie or the Character of Rain* (2025), directed by Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han, a France-Belgium co-production made with Maybe Movies.

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Audience Award at Annecy. Santiago has received further recognition including a César Award for another short and nominations for the film at the Academy Awards and BAFTAs. She also lectures at Les Gobelins and ESEC.

*Sources: es.hollywoodreporter.com, imdb.com, berlinale-talents.de, excelsior.com.mx, lanouvellerepublique.fr.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Little Amélie or the Character of Rain* (2025), Fi1m 80, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/little-amelie-or-the-character-of-rain.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Strange Teen Spirit* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Little Amélie or the Character of Rain* (2025), Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/little-amelie-or-the-character-of-rain.md)
- *Still Life with Ghosts* (2025), Associate Producer
- *Dog Alone* (2025), Producer
- *The Angst and the Bliss* (2022), Producer
- *Yugo* (2022), Co-Producer
- *Granny's Sexual Life* (2021), Producer
- *Plans for Love* (2021), Delegated Producer
- *Horacio* (2020), Producer
- *Riviera* (2019), Producer
- *Lupus* (2016), Producer
- *Chulyen, Raven Story* (2016), Producer
- *Oh Willy...* (2013), Producer
- *Throwing Sticks at the Sun*, Co-Producer

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