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ELLE SCHNEIDER is a director and cinematographer from New York City with over a decade of experience behind the camera and a passion for genre filmmaking and visual storytelling. Her work has been featured in Vanity Fair, Maxim, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Wired, and MovieMaker. She recently directed and shot more than a dozen episodes of History's acclaimed docu-drama series THE FOOD THAT BUILT AMERICA.
She has directed music videos for bands Gangstagrass, Mock Sun, Speedy Ortiz, and Isla June, and clients like Panasonic, Digital Bolex, Atomos, Sigma Lenses, Apple, and Nikon. Her short films, including Bliss Blue, JKTV, and Cuddle, a story about the horrors of cuddle parties, have played at numerous festivals including Sidewalk, Slamdance, HollyShorts, and Cleveland. In 2016, Bliss Blue, a tense social drama about an everyday errand that's anything but ordinary, was acquired for VOD distribution by Seed&Spark. In 2012, she directed ONE SMALL STEP, the first film shot on the Digital Bolex cinema camera, which tells the story of Destiny, a young girl who aspires to become an astronaut and must find a way to reconnect with her mother after a family tragedy.
As a 1st and 2nd Unit cinematographer, her work has played at SXSW, Tribeca, Sitges, Edinburgh, MotelX, and many other festivals. She has shot four narrative feature films, including Slamdance founder Dan Mirvish's 18 1/2, which won the "Stubbornly Independent" grand prize at the 2021 Tallgrass Film Festival and is available streaming on Starz. She is a member of ICG Local 600 and ICFC as a director of photography, and is a member of the Alliance of Women Directors and Film Fatales.
website | elleschneider.com