Jeff Daniels (director)

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Jeff Daniels (born 1978) is an American-Australian documentary film director and producer.

Early life[]

Daniels was born in 1978 and raised in Queens, New York. He moved to Australia in 2001 and now lives in Melbourne.[1]

Career[]

Daniels made his first film, The 10 Conditions of Love over seven years while working as a school teacher in Melbourne.[1] An observational film about exiled Uyghur activist and human rights leader, Rebiya Kadeer,[2] the film made international headlines after Chinese hackers attacked the Melbourne International Film Festival website, in an attempt to disrupt its screening.[3] Several Chinese directors withdrew their films from the festival in response to the planned screening of Daniels' film.[4]

Fair Game follows the life and career of AFL footballer, Héritier Lumumba[5] who spoke out about racism in the Collingwood Football Club.[6] The film uncovered systemic racism present within the club and was cited in a subsequent review into the club's response to incidents of racism and cultural safety.[7] The report found the club was “at best ineffective, or at worst exacerbated the impact of the racist incidents”.[8] A week after the report's findings were leaked, the club's president Eddie McGuire resigned.[8]

Mother with a Gun won Best Australian Documentary at the 2016 Antenna Documentary Film Festival[9] and was selected for the documentary film festival, DOC NYC.[10] The film follows leader of the Jewish Defense League, Shelley Rubin, on her path to violent extremism.[10]

Television Event is an archive-based documentary tracing the production and socio-political reception of 1983 made-for-TV movie, The Day After.[11] The Day After controversially imagined a nuclear attack on Lawrence, Kansas and its broadcast reached over 100 million Americans. Daniels’ film depicts the anxious reaction to The Day After and the change it engendered in president Ronald Reagan’s nuclear weapons policy.[12] The film was set to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2020 but did not screen there until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[13] For it, Daniels won Best Director of a Documentary Feature at RiverRun Film Festival.[14]

Filmography[]

Feature-length films[]

  • The 10 Conditions of Love (2009)
  • Mother with a Gun (2016)
  • Fair Game (2017)
  • Television Event (2020)

Awards[]

Year Nominee / work Award Result
2021 Television Event Atom Award for Best History Documentary Nominated[15]
2021 Television Event Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Award for Best Documentary Feature Nominated [16]
2021 Television Event Sydney Film Festival Award for Best Australian Documentary Nominated[17]
2021 Television Event Philadelphia Film Festival Award for Best Feature Documentary Nominated[18]
2021 Television Event Newport Beach Film Festival Award for Best Feature Documentary Nominated[19]
2021 Television Event Footcandle Film Festival Audience Favourite Feature Award Won[20]
2021 Television Event Sidewalk Film Festival Programmers' Feature Film Award Won[21]
2021 Television Event RiverRun Film Festival Award for Best Director of a Documentary Feature Won[14]
2021 Television Event Full Frame Center for Documentary Filmmakers Award Nominated
2018 Fair Game Australian Director's Guild Award for Best Director Nominated[22]
2018 Fair Game Atom Award for Best Social & Political Issue Documentary Nominated[23]
2016 Mother with a Gun Antenna Award for Best Documentary Won[9]
2011 The 10 Conditions of Love Bellingham Film Festival Audience Award for Best Film Won[24]
2010 The 10 Conditions of Love Atom Award for Best Social & Political Issue Documentary Won[25]
2010 The 10 Conditions of Love Inside Film Awards Independent Spirit Award Nominated [24]
2010 The 10 Conditions of Love FCCA Award for Best Documentary Director Nominated [24]
2010 The 10 Conditions of Love Melbourne International Film Festival Audience Award Nominated[26]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Profile Jeff Daniels". Guardian Australia. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Jeff Daniels". Mountain Film. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Chinese hack into film festival site". The Age. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  4. ^ "We are all Melburnian". The New Yorker. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  5. ^ "What's on TV: Sunday, September 3". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Nathan Buckley confrontation was the final straw at Collingwood for Heritier Lumumba". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Do Better - Final Report" (PDF). UTS. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  8. ^ a b "Eddie McGuire speaks for first time after Collingwood exit, denies Magpies board pushed him to resign". ABC News. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  9. ^ a b "Mother with a Gun". Antenna Festival. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Mother with a Gun". DOC NYC. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Nuclear War On ABC & A High-Strung 'Romeo And Juliet'-Style Melodrama Highlight Two Promising Tribeca Sales Prospects". Deadline. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  12. ^ "'Television Event': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  13. ^ "Tribeca Film Festival Postponed Amid Coronavirus Fears". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  14. ^ a b "Awards". RiverRun Film Festival. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  15. ^ "Television Event Atom Awards". Atom Awards. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  16. ^ "Hot Springs Festival". Television Event.
  17. ^ "SFF Award Winners Announced" (PDF). Sydney Film Festival. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  18. ^ "Television Event". Philadelphia Film Festival.
  19. ^ "Television Event". Newport Beach Film Festival. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  20. ^ "Footcandle Film on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  21. ^ "2021 Sidewalk Film Festival Award Winners". Sidewalk Film Festival. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  22. ^ "2018 ADG Awards Nominees are Announced". Australian Director's Guild. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  23. ^ "Fair Game: Awards". IMDB. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  24. ^ a b c "The 10 Conditions of Love: Awards". IMDB. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  25. ^ "Atom Awards". IMDB. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  26. ^ "Audience Award Winners". MIFF. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
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