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.