Gab is a multidisciplinary artist from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, working across cinema, photography, film criticism, and audiovisual production. He studies Film and Audiovisual at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). In 2026, he released his first short film. As a film critic, he maintains an active online presence, writing reviews informed by thinkers such as Deleuze and Lacan, as well as feminist and decolonial theories. He cites Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) as his favorite film and considers Wong Kar-wai a constant source of inspiration. During his undergraduate studies, he has developed analyses such as a reading of Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003) through Freud’s concept of the uncanny (Unheimliche).

Gab Santana

Directing Born December 13, 2003 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Gab is a multidisciplinary artist from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, working across cinema, photography, film criticism, and audiovisual production. He studies Film and Audiovisual at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). In 2026, he released his first short film.

As a film critic, he maintains an active online presence, writing reviews informed by thinkers such as Deleuze and Lacan, as well as feminist and decolonial theories. He cites Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) as his favorite film and considers Wong Kar-wai a constant source of inspiration. During his undergraduate studies, he has developed analyses such as a reading of Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003) through Freud’s concept of the uncanny (Unheimliche).