His short film “Basha Man,” examining the impact of tourism on a mountain village in southwest China, premiered at CAAMFest2017 and won the AT&T Student Film Award. His feature documentary in development, “Sonsplitter,” profiles a German Turk dancer for the internationally renowned Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, tracing his identity and intergenerational trauma through the lens of performance. Daniel holds a BA in Anthropology and received his MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University. He is a member of the Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc) and a board member of the Global Lives Project. Daniel is a 2018 BAVC National Mediamaker Fellow and recipient of the Princess Grace Award in Film.