Roxana Chapela is a multiple award-winning Mexican/Canadian filmmaker, production designer, and visual storyteller with over two decades of experience in film, sustainable fashion, and cultural creation. Trained in Architecture, Fine Arts, and Permaculture Design, she weaves grounded yet poetic visual worlds—infused with narrative depth and sacred aesthetics.
Her set design credits span a wide range of projects, including The Flash, Continuum, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, HIVE 3: Cultural Olympiad 2010, and La Casa del Teatro México. She has collaborated with acclaimed directors such as Steven Soderbergh (Che), and received the Best Production Design Award for Los Trashumantes, following her work on The Ten Commandments of La Vida Loca.
As a director, her award-winning short documentaries—Upcyclers: Fashion’s Climate Frontliners, The Peaceful Revolution, and Sashiko—explore themes of memory, femininity, and ecological beauty. Her debut feature script, Lumaria (formerly Feminine), was supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and selected by the Female Eye Film Festival’s development lab.
Roxana has curated and led the film committee of the Sustainable Film Festival Vida Vert (San Francisco, 2021–2022), and served as Lead Instructor in Production Design at InFocus Film School (2022–2024), mentoring a new generation of independent filmmakers.
Her work is rooted in cultural truth, visual poetry, and the belief that beauty is a vessel for transformation.
"Beauty is my language. Truth is my compass" - Roxana
