Daniel Robin makes experimental and speculative non-fiction films that are preoccupied with memory, family history, and relationships with people in his life. He often shoots his films on super 8 and 16mm. His film my olympic summer screened in 27 film festivals and won several awards including the Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize and the Onda Curta Award at IndieLisboa. His film All The Leaves Are Brown also screened in 29 festivals, including Curtas Vila Do Conde, Analogica, L’Alternativa and won the Best Director Award at the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival. His film Petting Zoo has screened at 23 film festivals, including Analogica and Ji.hlava IDFF. Daniel’s most recent film, Sun Coming and Casting a Shadow, continues in pursuing memory as an essential narrative theme and, like many of his films, was shot on super 8. Daniel received is BA in film at SFSU, taking classes with Trinh T. Minh-ha and his MFA also at SFSU, with Bill Nichols serving as his thesis advisor. Daniel is currently a professor at Georgia State University, teaching alternative approaches to documentary and fiction filmmaking in the School of Film, Media and Theater.
Selected by Filmmaker Magazine as One of 25 New Faces of Independent Film
link to ⎯ https://filmmakermagazine.com/archives/issues/summer2008/25faces_3.php
Films selected to be archived in Sundance/UCLA Film Archive
122 Webster
Matzoballs and Blackeyed Peas
my olympic summer
Publications
2010
“ A Brief History of an Accidental Web Video Pioneer”, Movement, Academic Journal NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
http://www.movementjournal.com/issue_1.1_futures_of_cinema/01_brief_history_robins.html
Daniel Robin 