An award-winning independent filmmaker and cinematographer recently returned to his Santa Monica home after a work trip to find his home in tatters after squatters set up camp and burglarized his property.

Fidel Ruiz Healy had been in New York for a week and a half long work project when he came back on Sept. 16 and immediately noticed his metal gate, which is never unlocked, was open.

That was the first sign that something was not right.

“Immediately walked in and my house was trashed,” the filmmaker told KTLA’s Sara Welch.

Each room of the home was ransacked, Healy’s belongings scattered and tossed throughout the residence, even finding bottles of alcohol and knives in his bed.

“There was still fresh food, like coffee and donuts with receipts from earlier that day,” he said. “From t

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