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Daniella Mazzio

Daniella Mazzio

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Daniella Mazzio is a Chicago-based, award-winning culture journalist, film critic, and consultant. Her bylines have included In Review Online, the Chicago Reader, Indiewire, Autostraddle, Slate, RogerEbert.com, and The Boston Globe. Her coverage of federal arts funding cuts won the 2026 AAN Award for Best Long Form Arts Feature and was a finalist for a 2026 Peter Lisagor Award. In 2025, she was a recipient of the Chicago Film Critics Association emerging critic grant. She is also the host and co-producer of the intermittent podcast Hand Me the Mike, covering the work of actor Michael Shannon. Her writing interests include Latin-American cinema, Midwest filmmakers, movie theaters, women-directed films, and documentaries, but she's down to cover nearly everything and anything.

Critics Associations: Chicago Latino Film Festival