Santeros is a film about the social role of music in Afrocuban Santería. The film has two main protagonists: Yuliet, a spiritist who has practiced Santería since she was a child, and Alain, a talented musician who devoted his life playing the sacred batá drums during religious ceremonies.
Marco Lutzu
Marco Lutzu is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Cagliari, Italy. He has carried out fieldwork in Sardinia, Cuba, and Equatorial Guinea. He is the scientific director of the Encyclopedia of Sardinian Music (L’Unione Sarda 2012) and scientific supervisor, together with Giovanni Giuriati and Simone Tarsitani, of “Eyes on Music: Projects on Visual Ethnomusicology,” promoted by the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies (IISMC) of the Cini Foundation (Venice). As an audiovisual ethnomusicologist, he has produced over 20 documentaries on a broad range of topics related to research, visual culture, and ethnomusicology.