Daniel Andreas Sager is a Film Director and Producer, having studied film directing at the renowned Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and at the UCINE in Buenos Aires. 

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In recent years he has directed Cinema and TV-Documentaries in Iraq, Iran, South Sudan, Sudan, Kenya, Mauritania, Mexico and other countries. In his films he brings personal stories with deep political context with unconventional imagery to life. His film BEHIND THE HEADLINES about the investigative journalists of the Süddeutsche Zeitung was shortlisted for the German Film Award (Deutscher Filmpreis) and was shown at many international film festivals. It had its theatrical release in 2021 in German, Austrian and Swiss cinemas.

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His new film INVENTING TRUTH has its world premiere at the 20th CPH:DOX documentary film festival in Copenhagen. The film delves into one of the biggest media scandals of our time: the award-winning DER SPIEGEL star reporter C. Relotius's years-long deception in his reportages. The film will be shown on the streaming service SKY. 

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He has reported from Iraq on the fight against ISIS, Sudan about a remote hospital in the Nuba Mountains, the US-Mexican boarder about human trafficking, Iran about the strict social media policy, Kenya about international drug dealers and slum gangs, 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. 

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Worked with

ZDF, ARTE, Sky/Sky Documentary, SRF, NZZ, Deutsche Welle,  RBB, SWR2 Radio

 

Awards & Acknowledgements

Audience Award at Bolzano Filmfestival Bozen, 2022

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, 2015

Best Film Award Al Jazeera Film Festival 2014

First Steps Award, Germany 2015

Best Documentary Award at Open Eyes Film Festival, Germany 2014

Best Director Award at Cine Maiubit Film Festival, Rumania 2014

Docu-Village Scholarship at the Film Festival Haifa, Israel 2013

Best Film Award at Kurzsüchtig Film Festival, Germany 2012

Best Film Award at Localize Film Festival, Germany 2011