Daniel J. Egbert
Known for
Directing
Birthplace
New York
Biography
Daniel J. Egbert is a student Emmy nominated filmmaker, a finalist in the 2024 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, and 2023 Academy Nicholl Fellowship. He is the 2021 recipient of the Richard P. Rogers Spirit Of Excellence Award For Directing presented by AFI Fest, and one of twelve directors selected for the seventh annual CAA Moebius Showcase. Originally from New York, Daniel left home at seventeen to join the United States Marine Corps Infantry. He served four deployments including both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Daniel’s work explores loss of control, and how trauma complicates but beautifies the human experience—through themes of inadequacy, rage, and rebirth.
Daniel earned a...
Best known work
Filmography
TBA
FOLLICLESDirector, Writer, Producer
2024
2023
A Place in the FieldCreative Consultant
2023
PorcelainWriter, Director
2022
CHORUSDirector, Writer
2015
Project 22as Self, Director, Writer
1988
Bad BloodAssistant Editor






