A girl and boy. Brother and sister. Living in poverty and neglect. Lost in the woods. They see a house, rush toward it… it is magical. Full of good food, soft sheets, love and care. But in this house, danger lurks. And all they have is each other. The Brothers Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel takes a modern, neorealistic twist in H&G.
Celebrated for her female-driven stories, filmmaker DANISHKA ESTERHAZY is a graduate of the Directors’ Lab at the Canadian Film Centre, the Talent Lab at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Esterhazy’s films have screened in festivals and theaters around the world and have been broadcast on CBC, Bravo, Super Channel, Movie Central, Showtime and NetflixUK. In 2017, Esterhazy was awarded the Amazon Video Filmmaker Award at the Sundance Film Festival for her independent film Black Field. Her dystopian feature Level 16 premiered at Fantastic Fest in September 2018 to excellent reviews. Level 16 also screened at FrightFest Glasgow, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, PanicFest and Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival.
Danishka directed horror movie The Banana Splits for Warner Bros and the 2021 remake of Slumber Party
Massacre for Shout! Factory. Both films were horror festival favorites that screened around the world.
In 2021, she won the DGC award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Mini-
Series for I Was Lorena Bobbitt. She also won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction - TV Movie for I Was
Lorena Bobbitt.
Danishka directed eight episodes and served as producing-director on Syfy’s supernatural series SurrealEstate. She
also served as producing-director for Syfy’s series Astrid and Lilly Save the World. In 2022, she directed two episodes of the hit Netflix series Ginny & Georgia.
A dual American and Canadian citizen, Esterhazy splits her time between Toronto and Los Angeles.
