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Danae Elon is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer based in Montreal. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she has directed, produced, and shot a body of work that explores the relationship between the personal and the political through intimate and powerful narratives. Her thesis film Never Again Forever (1996) won the Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Achievement Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. Her first feature documentary, Another Road Home (2004), premiered at Tribeca and went on to screen internationally at IDFA, Hot Docs, and numerous other festivals as well as be theatrically released in the US. With Partly Private (2009), Elon won the award for Best New York Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival. P.S. Jerusalem (2015) was selected at both the Berlinale and the Toronto International Film Festival, confirming her reputation as a bold voice in personal documentaries, the film was released theatrically and the New York times awarded it a critics pick. The Patriarch’s Room (2017) won Best Research and Music award at Docaviv and first prizes at both the LA Greek Film Festival and the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. Her film A Sister’s Song (2018), for which she also served as cinematographer, was awarded Best Documentary at the Doker Film Festival and received an Iris Award for Best Cinematography, and the AIDC Innovation Award.

Most recently, her feature Rule of Stone (2024) was selected at IDFA, CPH:DOX, and the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, while her short film Life of a Dog was produced with support from CBC. In addition to directing and producing, Elon has worked extensively as a cinematographer on her own films and in collaboration with other directors. The films she has produced screened as well at leading international festivals including Berlinale, Hot Docs, IDFA, Millennium and Sheffield. She is a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in Film (2009) and has been supported numerous times by institutions such as the Sundance Institute, the Catapult Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, Quebec Arts Council, SODEC and CMF. Through her combined roles as director, producer, and cinematographer, Elon continues to develop a practice that bridges the deeply personal with the universally political.