Rooted in the landscapes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, Santua Tripura is a visual artist, filmmaker, curator, and cultural producer whose work explores memory, landscape, identity, and Indigenous resilience. Through documentary, moving image, and collaborative artistic practice, he creates space for Indigenous stories, oral traditions, and lived experiences, bridging ancestral knowledge with contemporary realities.

He is the founder and currently leads Ruwang Collective Arts, a platform that has collaborated with Indigenous multidisciplinary artists and creatives in Bangladesh since 2019. He also co-initiated Indigenous Screen, a global platform dedicated to promoting Bangladeshi Indigenous films through screenings, dialogues, and cross-cultural exchange. Through Ruwang Collective Arts, he initiated Cine CHT, a documentary film and creative lab supporting emerging Indigenous filmmakers and creatives, while organizing Indigenous-language film screenings in remote Indigenous communities across Bangladesh and internationally.

In 2022, he received the Stories for Change Fellowship, initiated by Pathshala South Asian Media Institute and Oxfam Novib, through which he directed Ubogeet: The Unsung Tale and Song, a documentary exploring the lives and musical traditions of Chakma Indigenous folk song practitioners. In 2025, he participated in the Dhaka DocLab with Senda, a documentary project following an elderly Tripura folk singer striving to preserve ancestral melodies through the nearly extinct Senda instrument.

Beyond filmmaking, Santua contributes to the Hill Film Festival, Bangladesh as the curator of Indigenous Mirror, a section dedicated to Indigenous cinema from around the world that fosters dialogue on Indigenous storytelling and contemporary filmmaking. In recognition of his work, he was nominated as a Global Changemaker 2025 by the Global Activist Network.