from brasília, elisa souza is a los angeles-based cinematographer and camera operator shooting narrative, documentary, commercials and music videos across brazil and the united states.
always in love with photography, music, fashion and movies, she's a story-focused collaborator, passionate about projects that feature sensitive, diverse narratives.
often using framing, color, texture and movement as essential parts of visual storytelling across different genres in both film and digital formats, her work aims to evoke emotion, connecting the audience and the characters, and has been featured at festivals such as palm springs shortfest, hollyshorts, são paulo international film festival, afi fest, cinefantasy, brasília film festival, philadelphia latino arts & film festival.
she is also a graduate of the american film institute, a 2023 fellow at film independent’s project involve and a member of the brazilian society of cinematographers (abc), the brazilian collective of women and transgender people in cinematography (dafb) and the chicanas directors initiative (cdi).
