Daniela Alatorre

Daniela Alatorre

Born 1979
Austin, Texas, USA

Biography

Award-winning producer and filmmaker with more than 20 years of experience in documentary filmmaking and programming. She worked as a producer and programmer at FICM for over 10 years and has been part of the advisory boards of the Ambulante Festival and the Flaherty Film Seminar in New York. Her production credits include 20 short and feature films, including the award-winning feature documentaries El General and Users (directed by Natalia Almada), Midnight Family (by Luke Lorentzen), Vivos (by Ai Weiwei), and A Cop Movie (by Alonso Ruizpalacios), which premiered at the 2021 Berlinale and received a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution. Retreat, her first feature documentary as a director, received a special mention and the Ambulante Film Festival prize at the 17th FICM. In 2017, she co-founded the Mexico City-based production company No Ficción with Elena Fortes and the support of Cinépolis. The company, which she co-directs, is dedicated to producing content for multiple platforms with a focus on documentary and hybrid forms.

Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia

Producer

Documentaries
2024

Igualada

2021

A Cop Movie

2020

Fragments

2019

Retreat

2018

A 3 Minute Hug

2012

Barely Passing

Director

Documentaries
2020

Fragments

2019

Retreat

Camerawoman

Documentaries
2020

Fragments

2019

Retreat

Sound designer

Documentaries
2020

Fragments

2019

Retreat

Screenwriter

Documentaries
2019

Retreat

Editor

Documentaries
2019

Retreat