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.
Known For
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.
Kansas City
A small film crew conducts a survey on sex, dating apps, and loneliness in a modern world.
+33 07 DATE ME PLS
Elijah Stammler recounts the night of his twentieth birthday.