Daniel Lynn

Daniel grew up in Montreal, a very cosmopolitan city bridging the gap between Europe and America, between English and French, between old and new. His hometown gave him a broad perspective of the world, its different cultures and religions. It showed him the importance and beauty of diversity but also brought to the forefront the tensions that diversity engenders. Through film and cinematography, he discovered the importance of culture, art, and cinema in protecting that diversity while overcoming the differences that separate people.

Daniel has worked in film since 1999 as a grip, electric, gaffer, AC and DP. He graduated with a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal in 2002 with a major in Art History and a minor in Film Studies. In 2007 he shot Murder, a short film that was accepted to the 2009 Crossroads Film Festival in Jackson, MS. The web series he shot in 2009, The Actor Diaries, was accepted to the Los Angeles Comedy Festival. In June 2010, he shot a short for Academy Award Winner David Brenner titled Art’’s a Hooker.

In 2011, he graduated with an MFA from the Cinematography program of the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles, CA. While there he shot six films, two of them on 35mm film, and crewed on over 25 other films in different capacities. Upon graduating, he put his language and filmmaking skills to the test and headed to Jacmel in Haiti to teach a class at the Cine-Institute, Haiti’’s only film school. For two weeks he guided, encouraged, and inspired young filmmakers as they prepped and shot their 1st feature film. He is now back in Los Angeles, and continues to work at creating a better, more peaceful world through cinema, art, dialogue, cultural exchange, and friendship.