Her first short film, Rites, aired on WTN and TVO in Canada and played at the Edinburgh Int'l Film Festival, among others. She is currently in prep on a reality series pilot and in development on a half-hour short drama, "Il Gallo" which features Italian seniors in the lead roles. As a script supervisor for the past ten years she has worked on over 50 feature films and TV series in five countries (including Italy). She owns Mondo Cinema Inc. in Canada and is always on the lookout for screenplays featuring Italian American stories. Daniela got her BFA at York University in 1991.