Santiago Ahuanojinou Zannou (born 1977) is a Spanish filmmaker.

Zannou was born in 1977 in Madrid,[1] son to a father from Benin and a mother from Aragon.

[4] He moved to Barcelona to study filmmaking at the Centre d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya [es] (CECC).

[2] It was followed by two documentary films, namely El alma de La Roja [es] (2009; a documentary about the Spain national football team) and La puerta de no retorno (2011; tracking the return of his father Alphonse Zannou to Benin with his family 40 years after leaving).

[5][3] His second fiction feature Scorpion in Love (2013), penned alongside Carlos Bardem, earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.