Daniela Repas is a Bosnian born visual artist based in Portland,  Oregon. Her work depicts storytelling through multiple mediums,  from drawing and animation to installation and film. She has  shown her work nationally and internationally, from New York to  New Zealand, participating as an artist, a curator and as one of  the founding members of DripDrop collective.

 

She is a recipient  of the prestigious Dorothy Lemelson Scholarship and an alumna of  the Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she earned an MFA in  Visual Studies. Her debut as a film director of the award winning short film Mnemonics steered her work to the  intersection of film and art. In 2019 she was a recipient of the  Princess Grace Award for film Dogs of Home and an IEFTA selected  emerging filmmaker. In 2023 she was awarded the Oregon Media Arts Fellowship Award for her work in film and visual arts. She is currently working on her first  feature animated film Pour the Water as I Leave which she presented at Cannes Marche du Film and Annecy International Animation Festival.