DIRECTORS

Elle Schneider is a filmmaker from New York City with a love of art in all disciplines. Her work has been featured in Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, Wired, Rolling Stone, MovieMaker, and American Cinematographer. An avid cinephile with a passion for genre films, who cites Roger Corman, David Lean, Robert Wise, and Ken Russell as her biggest influences, Elle is the foremost expert on 1959 sci-fi melodrama TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE and industrial-educational production studio CENTRON CORPORATION. Most notably, she shot and directed two seasons season of History's acclaimed series THE FOOD THAT BUILT AMERICA, and as cinematographer has shot four feature films including wine mom thriller MY LIFE IS ON THE LINE (Lifetime) and Watergate era farce 18 1/2 (Starz). A director working cross-platform in short film, TV, branded content, and music videos, Elle often selects projects that feature dark and unconventional stories, like supernatural western NEAR TO SUPERSTITION (client: Panasonic) or sex-work documentary JKTV, and work that resonates with her interest in time period, texture, and color. A fan of collaborating with musical artists, she has directed videos for Gangstagrass, Mock Sun, Sad13, Isla June, and two for Speedy Ortiz, which premiered in Vanity Fair and Billboard respectively. Her most recent video, for Allie Goertz' cover of Nine Inch Nails' Closer, premiered in Fangoria. Her shorts have played at festivals like Slamdance, Sidewalk, HollyShorts, and Tallgrass. She was a 2020 The Future of Film is Female finalist, and a 2021 ReFrame Rise Finalist. She was a 2015 Big Vison Empty Wallet fellow for her WWII biopic In Search of the Sun, and is the only two-time recipient of the Marguerite Roberts Award for Feature Screenwriting at USC School of Cinematic Arts.