
Director
Daniel Chávez-Ontiveros
Mexico City, México · 8 films
Daniel Chávez-Ontiveros is an award-winning Mexican filmmaker and film editor based in the California Bay Area. He is known primarily for his editing work on documentary features, including two films directed by Rodrigo Reyes, 499 and Sansón and Me — the latter co-edited with Andrea Chignoli — both of which screened at major festivals including Tribeca, Hot Docs, and Sheffield Doc/Fest. He also edited Unseen, directed by Set Hernandez Rongkilyo, and American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez. He was selected as a fellow of the 2022 Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship, a distinction recognizing outstanding documentary editors, and is listed in the BIPOC Documentary Editors directory.
Best known for
Filmography 8


American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
2026 · Editor
On PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel

For Venida, for Kalief
2025 · Editor

unseen
2023 · Writer, Editor

Sansón and Me
2023 · Editor


499
2021 · Editor
On Kanopy

El Cisne
2016 · Cinematography, Producer

Andwele/Zumbi
2012 · Cinematography

Tucán
2012 · Writer, Director