
The Caller (feature) | Mar Vista (DP)
You S02 (music video) | Speedy Ortiz (Director/DP)
The Otherkind (feature) | Mary C Russell (2nd Unit DP)
The Legend (feature) | Maria Capp (DP)
Elyse Walker 2022 | Client: Elyse Walker (DP)
Moon #CAMERAderie 2022 short | Client: Toy Lei (Producer)
18 1/2 (feature) | Client: Waterbug Eater Films (DP)
The Food That Built America S1/S2 | Client: History Channel (Director/DP)
Speedy Ortiz - Villain | Client: Carpark Records (Producer/Director/DP)
La Buena Muerte (doc short) | Client: Apple + Mobile Film Classroom (Line Producer/DP)
Near to Superstition | Client: Panasonic (Producer/Director/DP)
Runner Up - Shotdeck Recreations (2023)
American Cinematographer - "Vintage Infamy" (Feb, 2023)
Finalist - ReFrame Rise (2022)
Best Documentary Short - Atlanta Underground (2016)
Personal Details
Los Angeles (local)
New York City (local)
Work Details
ICFC, ICG Local 600, Television Academy
ELLE SCHNEIDER is a filmmaker from New York City with over a decade of experience behind the camera as a director and cinematographer. Her work has been featured in Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, Paste, Wired, and MovieMaker. She most recently shot and directed History series The Food that Built America (2021), as well as music videos for Sad13, Steep Leans, and Isla June.
Work as cinematographer includes narrative feature 18 1/2 (Winner: Stubbornly Independent main prize, Tallgrass Film Festival 2021), and and documentary That Guy Dick Miller, which premiered at SXSW. Second Unit shoots include Half the Picture (Sundance), Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched (SXSW), Robert Klein Still Can't Stop His Leg (Tribeca) and many others. She has shot wor for Apple, Sigma, Atomos, and Panasonic, and writes about cinematography for the International Cinematographer’s Guild Magazine, of which she is a member. She is also a member of the International Collective of Female Cinematographers.