Danielle Criqui

BIOGRAPHIE

Danielle Criqui is a Los Angeles based Writer, Editor, and Director and a 2023 graduate of the UCLA MFA film production program. Prior to graduate school she received a BFA in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010. From arts school she went on to spend the following decade deeply immersed in Baltimore Maryland’s DIY community– organizing music and art events, producing an annual arts publication, creating short films, and editing and directing Fields - her first feature length documentary about a local music festival. In 2019 she was accepted into UCLA’s MFA Film Directing program, and it felt as if a door of opportunity that had been firmly shut swung wide open. During her study at UCLA Danielle’s achievements in directing and screenwriting were acknowledged by being the recipient of the Edie & Lew Wasserman Thesis Award, The HFPA Directing Fellowship, The George Burns & Gracie Allen Comedy Award, and the 1st Year Director’s Award. By focusing on the more droll moments of modernity, Danielle approaches filmmaking with both an observational and introspective mentality. Her work is often a meditation on the curious moments that reveal themselves when looking closer at our day to day reality. When seen through a certain lens, even the most mundane instances can begin to warp into something funny, tragic, beautiful, or surreal. She aims to speak to the larger universal experience– to the wordless, feelings that create for better or worse, a connection between us.

FILMOGRAPHIE