Daniela Schneider

Creator Context

Summary

Mexican production designer, art director, costume designer, casting professional, writer, director, and producer who began in the Mantarraya/independent Mexican cinema circle after studying art in Barcelona. Her long career includes work with Carlos Reygadas, Amat Escalante, Lorenzo Vigas, Lucía Puenzo, Yorgos Lanthimos, Alejandro Landes, and other prominent Latin American filmmakers. Credits include Batalla en el cielo, Sangre, Heli, Los hongos, Porfirio, La región salvaje, Las elegidas, The Untamed, Monos, Nimic, El baile de los 41, Señorita 89, Perdidos en la noche, and Cada minuto cuenta. She has also made short films and developed her own feature projects, while later working in advertising in Mexico and the United States. Her public profile centers on visual design, practical production problem-solving, genre and auteur cinema, and collaboration; available interviews and biographies do not show a sustained activist, partisan, DEI, or representation-first public persona.