
Directing
Elia Schneider
Caracas, Venezuela
Elia Schneider was a Venezuela-born US-based filmmaker, writer, and director. Her most recent films as a director were Tamara (2016), Desautorizados (2010), and A Dot and a Line (2004)
Acting credits
Behind the camera
6.6Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of corruption, crime and sniffing glue to escape hunger, like other children in the same situation. Soon, the child becomes part of the clashes between drug gangs and corrupt policemen.
Glue Sniffer
1999
8.0Jorge plans to sell the family plantation so that he and his wife, Aida can leave the country. Story centers on events which take place during the two days and a night of negotiations for the sale with two visiting men.
Agonía
1985
6.8The story of a lawyer's journey to overcome her fears and social boundaries in order to transition.
Tamara
2016
6.8The story of a lawyer's journey to overcome her fears and social boundaries in order to transition.
Tamara
2016
7.2Jairo is a teenager living in a marginal world, in a neighborhood full of drugs and assaults. Tired of poverty and his family hell, he is forced to resort to violence. He thinks his only way out of misery through the world of crime, so he decides to participate in an assault to get money with which to regain their dignity.
Sicario
1994
5.0The story of a young Colombian recruit who, while patrolling his country's border, is befriended by a Venezuelan adversary, and the tragic consequences of their relationship.
A Dot and a Line
2004
9.0"Des-authorized" is the combination of three stories, three realities that coexist and feed. The journey begins in the imagination of Elia K, the principal, who imagines Elijah, a character who is a poor playwright facing the crossroads to be true to his art, or succumb to the pressures of the producers must decide his work between surrender or pay the price of his freedom. On another level, we have Nina and Frederick, the protagonists of the work that Elijah is writing. They only seek to love, they are forced to leave the paper and press the Elijah to them the end that his story deserves, this is the starting point of "Des-authorized" a film set in an imaginary city , colorful and delusional. In the line of "Amelie" and "Stranger Than Fiction", brings a reflection on art, creativity, love and heartbreak.
UnAuthorized
2010
9.0"Des-authorized" is the combination of three stories, three realities that coexist and feed. The journey begins in the imagination of Elia K, the principal, who imagines Elijah, a character who is a poor playwright facing the crossroads to be true to his art, or succumb to the pressures of the producers must decide his work between surrender or pay the price of his freedom. On another level, we have Nina and Frederick, the protagonists of the work that Elijah is writing. They only seek to love, they are forced to leave the paper and press the Elijah to them the end that his story deserves, this is the starting point of "Des-authorized" a film set in an imaginary city , colorful and delusional. In the line of "Amelie" and "Stranger Than Fiction", brings a reflection on art, creativity, love and heartbreak.
UnAuthorized
2010