Leonor Zúñiga is a Nicaraguan film director, cinematographer, and producer. She holds an M.A. in Documentary Film from Stanford University and an M.A. in Cinematography from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is both a Fulbright and Chevening scholar.

Zúñiga has directed several short films, including Docktown (2016), Trees of Life (2016), Exiled (2019), and Madelaine (2023). She is the co-founder of Juli Films (2010–present), where she co-produced the feature documentaries El Canto de Bosawas (2014) and Patrullaje (2023), among others. As a cinematographer, she worked on the Belgian documentary Los Minúsculos (2021), and she is currently producing the documentary Pantasma, which recently received the top prize from the Open Doors program at the Locarno Film Festival.

Her films have been selected for prominent festivals such as Hot Docs, Torino, Big Sky, Curta Cinema, St. Louis International, Mountainfilm, and Tallgrass. Zúñiga was named one of Central America’s 50 most innovative women by Estrategia y Negocios magazine in 2022, and one of the 100 most powerful women in Central America by Forbes in 2023. She currently lives in exile in Costa Rica.