Bea is a filmmaker and actor.

Acting

Filmmaking

The Toll

Director/writer/producer - Bea Santos

Starring - Maya Misaljevic, Hudson Wurster, Mark Caven, Michela Canon and Steven R. Hart

Producer - Isabelle Deluce, Amanda Pileggi

DP - Morgana McKenzie

Editor - Morgana McKenzie, Bea Santos

Composer - Antonio Naranjo

Production Design - Liliana Vera-Montano

Costume Design - Amy Blaxland

Casting - Jesse Griffiths

Sound Design - Louie Short

Colour - Zach Cox

VFX - Gabriel Stern

Cassandra

Director/writer/producer - Bea Santos

Starring - Dawna Wightman, John Javis, Clare McConnell, Daniel Maslany

Executive Producer - Canadian Film Centre

Producer - Isabelle Deluce

DP - Gabriela Osio Vanden

Editor - Josh Aries

Composer - Antonio Naranjo

Production Design - Molly-Rae Landi

Costume Design - Joanna Syrokomla

Casting - Jesse Griffiths

Post Production Sound - Formosa Group

Colour and Finish - Company 3

Les Fileuses du Destin / FATES

Director/writer/producer - Bea Santos 

DOP - Luke McCutcheon

Editor - Ted Husband 

Colourist - Zachary Cox 

Makeup/Hair - Ray Allison 

Costume Design - Joanna Syrokomla 

Two To Look One To See

Director/writer/producer - Bea Santos 

Starring - Jessica Salgueiro, Stephen R. Hart, David Tompa

Producer - Isabelle Deluce 

Producer - Matt Kariatsumari

DOP - Luke McCutcheon

Editor - Andrea Arrin 

ADR Recordist - Jessie Follows 

Makeup - Ray Allison 

Colourist - Zachary Cox 

 Where There’s Smoke

Director/writer/producer - Bea Santos 

Starring - Corteon Moore 

Producer - Isabelle Deluce 

DOP - Luke McCutcheon

Editor - Ted Husband 

Sound Effects Editor - Jane Tattersall 

Re-Recording Mixer - Joe Morrow 

Colourist - Zachary Cox 

 About

Biography


Bea Santos is a Canadian filmmaker and actor with a decade of experience on set. 

Her acting credits include principal roles in HBO’s third season of True Detective and the Ethan Hawke led bank drama Stockholm which premiered at Tribeca in 2019. She was a series regular for all 3 seasons of Hulu’s The Hardy Boys and has recurred for 9 seasons on CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries.

Bea studied literature and art history at McGill University in Montreal and is an alumna of the Norman Jewison Film Program's Directors Lab at the Canadian Film Centre.

Her award-winning shorts have played all over the world, most recently her film Cassandra premiered at Vancouver International Film Festival and Les Fileuses du Destin, her fashion micro-short, was nominated for a CAFTCAD award. She is the recipient of the Canada Council of the Arts Travel Grant. Her latest short, The Toll, was generously funded by the Canada Council of the Arts Explore and Create Grant. 

Informed largely by the folktales told by her late Spanish mother and her upbringing among the lakes and trees of a small Muskoka town, Bea's films fuse elements of magic realism with themes of grief, loss, escape and renewal.

Currently, Bea is in development of her first feature film Holy Objects, a semi-autobiographical magic realism drama.