Santiago Zannou (Madrid, 1977) made an impressive feature film debut with One-Armed Trick. He studied cinema in Barcelona, at Centre d’Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya (CECC). He wrote and directed the short films Cara sucia (2004), which was nomminated to Best Short Film at Goya Awards, and Mercancías (2005). After meeting Juan Manuel Montilla “El Langui”, frontman of the rap band La Excepción, he decided to write the script that would become later his first feature film, One-Armed Trick. In 2009 he directed a documentary, El alma de la roja, about the centenary of Spanish Football Selection.