Daniela Pinto is a film, television, and video game composer based in Toronto.

She is best known for composing the original score for the TV series POTLUCK LADIES (LifeSketch Media), nominated for Best Drama series at the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards. She earned a Canadian Screen Music Award nomination for her brooding hybrid orchestral score for the short film DIASPORA (dir. Tyler Mckenzie Evans), which premiered at TIFF 2022. Other notable works include the award-winning dementia-themed horror short TIME EATER (dir. Ryan Couldrey), and COLD, a menopause body horror short starring Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp). Most recently, Daniela composed the original soundtrack for the video game HUNTER’S MOON: A SOVEREIGN SYNDICATE ADVENTURE, a roguelike deckbuilder RPG by Zugalu Entertainment, set in a corrupted Victorian steampunk fantasy world.

Daniela started learning classical piano when she was 8 years old, but credits the music from her favourite video games and anime series for inspiring her to push herself as a musician. Constantly immersed in storytelling and the creative process, she taught herself composition while studying filmmaking at Sheridan College, and scored over a dozen films by the time she graduated - including a few that she wrote and directed herself.

Daniela is also an accomplished sound editor and a member of the Directors Guild of Canada. She has worked on the sound teams of large scale productions like CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (dir. David Cronenberg), MOONHAVEN (AMC+), and SAINT-PIERRE (CBC), as well as dozens of independent productions. She is an alumnus of the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television’s “Women in Post” talent development program. As a composer fluent in the workflows and tools of post production audio, she brings both creative vision and technical problem-solving skills to every project she works on.