
Daniel Chávez Ontiveros is an award-winning Mexican filmmaker. He studied an MFA in Documentary Film at Stanford University. His thesis film EL CISNE (2016) was awarded the UNAFF Youth Vision Award and the Audience Award in the Program of Sexual Diversity at the Morelia International Film Festival FICM. He works as an editor in short and feature documentary films in the California Bay Area. He edited the HotDocs and Tribeca award-winning film 499 (dir. Rodrigo Reyes). For this film, Daniel was nominated for Best Editing in a Documentary Film at the Tribeca Film Festival. He’s also the editor of the ITVS-funded film SANSON AND ME (dir. Rodrigo Reyes) SANCTUARY RISING (dir. Theo Rigby & Florencia Krochink), and UNSEEN (dir. Set Hernandez Rongkilyo). He’s also part of the production team in the limited series of GROWING UP IN AMERICA: LIFE AFTER THE TALIBAN, a project that was selected to participate in the 2021 Film Independent + CNN Original Docu-Series Intensive. Daniel is also co-director at Video Consortium México (VCMX), a non-profit organization that focuses on building community in the documentary scene in Mexico and promoting the work of emerging Mexican documentary filmmakers.