Sasha Santiago is a fixture in the NonDē community, and in many ways, was enacting NonDē elements in his work long before NonDē was coined. He’s a filmmaker with 20 years of work under his belt, much of which he’s written and shot within one month on tight budgets, with a series of short films he shot during the pandemic being made for what he has called #ZeroBudgetShoots.

In Episode #021 of NonDē Uprising, Sasha Santiago fires on all cylinders trying to solve the broken cinema ecosystem. He contemplates how advancements in tech might benefit NonDē filmmakers, champions community-building efforts, and explains how guerrilla filmmakers have the upper hand.

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