Santiago Pedroche studied audiovisual arts at the Image and Sound Department of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. He's worked as a director, cinematographer and colorist on several fiction and documentary projects. His short film El Idioma del Barro (2015) was part of the official selection for the Festival Internacional de Cine del Desierto FICD, Interaction Program – International Student Film Camp (Serbia), Zanate Festival de Cine Documental Mexicano and Documenta Queretaro. In 2016 the state of Jalisco's Council for Culture and Arts (CECA) and PECDA (as a part of their Young Creators program) awarded him grants to develop his first feature documentary El viaje de Paty. He's participated in workshops such as Talents Guadalajara (FICG), Talent Lab (Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) and Ji.hlava Academy – Jihlava Int. Documentary Film Festival. His film El Viaje de Paty was also selected for post production support by the National Fund for Cinematographic Production (FOPROCINE) through the Mexican Institute for Cinematography (IMCINE) in 2019. As Cinematographer he has worked on other fiction and nonfiction projects for Amazon Prime, Netflix, HBO and Star Plus.