Select Accomplishments
2026
Director Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
2025
Telly Awards Silver Winner: Big Bend Ranch State Park
Photography Drive My Car
2024
Telly Awards People's Telly Gold Winner: Brazos Bend
Telly Awards Gold Winner: View Boston
Telly Awards Silver Winner: Brazos Bend
Telly Awards Silver Winner: Enchanted Rock
Telly Awards Bronze Winner: View Boston
Photography Summit K12: Dynamic Science Textbooks
2023
Telly Awards Bronze Winner: SMU Pride
2022
Telly Awards Silver Winner: Preserving History
Telly Awards Silver Winner: Discovery District
Telly Awards Bronze Winner: Preserving History
Photography Time Magazine: The Best Inventions of 2022
Photography WSJ: The Future of Everything
Ricardo J. Santiago
Award-winning Dallas-based filmmaker and published photographer with a decade of experience in creative marketing.
With ten years of professional experience in video production, and have developed content for numerous global brands, including AT&T, Electrosonic, Verizon, Intel, DLA Piper, and Bose.
My photography has been seen in TIME Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and textbooks nationwide. I am also a 10x Telly Award-winning video creative whose projects have won a total of 13 awards.
In 2025, in collaboration with Summit K12 and the California Association of Bilingual Education (CABE), I had the honor of directing a documentary titled Standing on the Shoulders of Giants about the history of language education in the United States.
I served as a Post-Production Producer at Summit K12, where I managed post-production for several of our flagship video education products, including both of our award-winning series, Dynamic Science! with Kate the Chemist and Virtual Field Investigations.
Prior to Summit K12, I served as the Creative Lead at MarketScale, where I supervisied a team of editors, automated editing workflows, and consulted on post-production for a roster of global clients.
My latest photo collection, BODIES, is due for publication in September 2026.