Ray Santisteban

Ray Santisteban (Director Producer) is an award winning documentary filmmakerwhose work has aired nationally and internationally on public television. His workfocuses on political subjects and artist profiles, addressing the themes of justice,memory and personal transformation . A graduate of NYU’s film and TV program, his documentaries include Voices From Texas (Director, Producer) in 2003, Visiones: Latino Art And Culture In The U.S. (Senior Producer) a three hour PBS series nationally broadcast in Oct. 2004. His hour documentary, The First Rainbow Coalition, was broadcast nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens in 2020. In late 2020, his short video Vincent Valdez: The Beginningis Near, was part of American Masters/Firelight Medias web series: In the Making. In2021 he was a segment producer on WNET’s nationally broadcast PBS special:Preserving Democracy.Awards garnered include: 1992 Student Academy Award (information division), New YorkFoundation for the Arts Media Fellowship, 1993, 1996 “Faculty of the Year” Award from theChicano Studies Program, UW Madison, 2005 Rockefeller Film and Video Fellowship,a 2008 San Antonio Artists Foundation Award, and a 2016 Tobin Award for ArtisticExcellence. In 2017 he garnered Firelight Media Documentary Fellowship. He lives in SanAntonio, Texas.