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Santana Productions was a film production company founded in 1948 by Humphrey Bogart. It was named after his yacht (and the cabin cruiser in Key Largo). The company released its films, known for its film noir through Columbia Pictures, but the majority of its motion pictures lost money at the box office, ultimately forcing the sale of Santana.
YearTitleDistributorProducer19491949ColumbiaRobert Lord1949ColumbiaRobert Lord1950ColumbiaRobert LordWriter/Producer/Director Steve Anderson is the creative force behind Santana Films. He is the producer/writer/director of our new thriller This Last Lonely Place, a Kickstarter success story, which stars Rhys Coiro, Xander Berkeley and Carly Pope.
Welcome to Santana Films. We’re glad you found us. Back in 1948, Humphrey Bogart left Warner Bros. and launched a start-up: his own independent production company. Frustrated by the studio system, and the old ways of doing business in Hollywood, he was inspired to break new ground and set out to do things his own way.
Aug 6, 2013 · Santana Films will focus on low-budget projects, but they’ll be elevated genre films, films that Bogart might make if he was making films today. They’ll be quality, filmmaker-driven films.
He formed Santana Productions in 1948; the company's 1950 production of In a Lonely Place was chosen by the National Film Registry in 2007 for permanent preservation as "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant.
May 10, 2016 · Bogart produced the film through his independent Santana Productions, founded in a bid for greater artistic autonomy, and gave his greatest performance in a role that Louise Brooks, among others, thought came closest to his real character.
Feb 22, 2019 · Knock on Any Door, the first film from Humphrey Bogart's Santana Productions, premiered in New York City exactly seventy years ago. Bogart initially tried to cast Marlon Brando in the role played by John Derek.
