Daniela Anne Cantu

Directing

Biography

Daniela Anne Cantu is a Chicago-based filmmaker and performer, her work often grappling with sexuality and sensuality. Coming from a theatrical background, her directorial practice often centers on performance, drawing inspiration from methods developed by Uda Hagen and Sanford Meisner. Spending the first eighteen years of her life living in rural Texas, her work emphasizes the emotional and social effects of adjusting to urban, unfamiliar environments. In 2023, her mockumentary +33 07 DATE ME PLS was awarded BEST CAST at the Alternative Film Festival.

Filmography Movies

Acting

MOVIE

+33 07 DATE ME PLS

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A small film crew conducts a survey on sex, dating apps, and loneliness in a modern world.

why i, the creator of this film, always leave my bedroom door closed

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Elijah Stammler recounts the night of his twentieth birthday.

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why i, the creator of this film, always leave my bedroom door closed

Interviewer

Production

MOVIE

+33 07 DATE ME PLS

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A small film crew conducts a survey on sex, dating apps, and loneliness in a modern world.

why i, the creator of this film, always leave my bedroom door closed

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Elijah Stammler recounts the night of his twentieth birthday.

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why i, the creator of this film, always leave my bedroom door closed

Director

MOVIE

+33 07 DATE ME PLS

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A small film crew conducts a survey on sex, dating apps, and loneliness in a modern world.

why i, the creator of this film, always leave my bedroom door closed

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Elijah Stammler recounts the night of his twentieth birthday.

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why i, the creator of this film, always leave my bedroom door closed

Director of Photography

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why i, the creator of this film, always leave my bedroom door closed

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Elijah Stammler recounts the night of his twentieth birthday.

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why i, the creator of this film, always leave my bedroom door closed

Editor

MOVIE

Kansas City

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Parker and Bianca, two young adults, experience the unraveling of their relationship as Parker develops a deluded sexual obsession with erotic online personality Kansas Fox. As his obsession deepens, he believes she is digitally following him wherever he goes and communicating with him by any means possible.