You live the story so you can tell it.
About
Daniel Wyland is an award-winning filmmaker and his work as director, cinematographer, screenwriter or as an actor has been has been recognized at numerous well known Top 100 Film Festivals around United States. Most recently “ Special Jury Remi Award” at the 51st WorldFEST Houston I.F.F 2018 Edition with his thriller 17 Locust St., “Best Actor Award” at 2017 Richmond I.F.F for his performance in Condemned drama, “Best Music Video” nomination at Northern Virginia I.F & Music Festival 2018 Edition for his CHESHI/Sentimental music video, “Royal Reel Award” for his western drama Last Winter at Canada I.F.F. 2017 Edition.
Daniel was born and raised in Romania and now he resides in United States since 2001. He has been around movies from an early age thanks to his father who was working in the movie distribution industry giving Daniel unlimited access to movies in times where the TV was restricted to two hours program per day by the government. His creative nature led him into exploring and learning visual arts at an early stage and later, into the art of film making especially. Daniel found easy access into this medium through acting first thanks to his open and warm personality, genuine accent and professionalism. Growing up in Romania, being exposed to Eastern European literature and art, learning the American filmmaking skill, contributed to defining his style as filmmaker.
His constant desire to be in touch with the story telling medium, when he wasn’t on movie sets and he would take any job on sets, he was working with Maryland Ensemble Theatre as Associate Artist creating promotional videos, trailers and fundraising video materials from 2014 till 2018 when he moved to California.
In his latest project 27 Children, a Romanian short drama based on true facts, he pushed his abilities further as filmmaker by directing, writing, shooting, editing and producing it by himself with no crew. And this was his first project where he had a chance to work with Romanian actors, an old dream of his.
He currently splits his time between West and East Coast working as cinematographer and director on films, music videos or commercials, meanwhile writing his next project.