ABOUT | Filmmaker

Daniel Andreas Sager is a Film Director, Journalist and Producer. He has directed Cinema and TV-Documentaries in Iraq, Iran, Israel, Kenya, Cameroon, Mauritania, Mexico, Russia and other countries. In his films Daniel brings personal stories with deep political context by means of unconventional imagery to life. His genuine affinity with people, coupled with a mature grasp of narrative, has led to individual handwriting and films of cinematic style. For his films Daniel has received international awards.

His new film BEHIND THE HEADLINES about the investigative journalists of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and their global researches was shown at Filmfestivals like CPH:Dox and HotDocs, opened the DokFest München and is shortlisted for the German Film Award (Deutscher Filmpreis). It will be released in German and Austrian cinemas in September 2021.

As a Journalist Daniel reports for different international television broadcasters. He reported from Iraq on the fight against ISIS, the US-Mexican boarder about human trafficking, from Iran about the strict social media policy, from Kenya about international drug dealers and slum gangs, from Mauritania about the life in the Sahara Desert or from Germany about corona patients in a lung clinic on the coast of the Baltic Sea.

Daniel graduated from the renowned Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and was awarded a scholarship to study one year at the UCINE in Buenos Aires. Before he studied Social Anthropology and Philosophy in Leipzig, Germany.

Worked with

ZDF, ARTE, Deutsche Welle, SRF, 3Sat, RBB, Die Zeit, SWR2 Radio

Awards & Acknowledgements

Shortlisted for Deutscher Filmpreis, Lola 2021

Best Docs 2021, DokFest München, 2021

Juliane Barthels Media Award, Germany, Category: Online, 2017

Best Film Award at the Film Festival de San Lorenzon, Paraguay 2017

Docunexion Scholarship at Documentary Film Festival of Mexico, 2016

Nipkow Scholarship, 2016

Best Director Award at the Film Festival Zimbabwe 2016

Future Docs Scholarship at Watch-Docs Film Festival in Warsaw

Best Film Award Al Jazeera Film Festival 2014