Arianna Esposito is a New York based director and assistant director with a BFA in Filmmaking from Champlain College. During her time in college she directed five short films, worked across a range of student and independent productions, and served as the Lead Technician for the college equipment rental house, where she trained students, maintained cinema gear, and supported advanced production classes. Her directing work from this period includes Hot Girl Walk, Mixed Signals, and several additional narrative shorts that screened at festivals.

At twenty one, while still in her senior year, Arianna was hired to lead an assistant directing team as the 1st AD on the feature film Christmas Cowboy, which is now streaming on Prime Video. At the same time she completed and released Mixed Signals, her festival selected senior thesis film.

Arianna is now building her professional career in New York within the assistant directing track and is actively advancing as an 2’nd 2’nd AD. Her credits include Grind as a 2nd 2nd AD and Key PA along with work on large scale productions for Netflix including One Shot with Ed Sheeran, for Peacock including Hot Seat, and for the MTV VMAs. She has experience across features, music videos, commercials, and major live event productions.

In addition to assistant directing, Arianna continues to direct narrative and branded projects and is developing new material with the long term goal of directing her first feature. She also accepts select 1st AD roles on commercial and small crew sets where her directing background and operational skill set support efficient and clear on set leadership.

Arianna is committed to building a career that merges her assistant directing experience with her work as a narrative filmmaker as she continues to expand her portfolio and prepare for feature length directing