Daniel Raim

Directing·Oct 8, 1974

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Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim attended the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Raim is known for his documentaries about overlooked artists of Hollywood's Golden Age, including "The Man on Lincoln's Nose" nominated for the 2001 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short Subject. Raim's 2015 doc "Harold and Lillian A Hollywood Love Story" (a New York Times Critic's Pick) premiered as an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for The Golden Eye (L’Œil d'or, le prix du documentaire - Cannes). In addition to his theatrical films, Daniel has written, produced, and directed 28 original documentaries for the Criterion Collection about cinema masters, including John Cassavetes, Buster Keaton, Alfred Hitchcock, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Kelly Reichardt. Raim's "In Search of Ozu" premiered on the Criterion Channel to rave reviews in 2018. In 2019 Raim directed and produced the TCM Original Documentary "Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers." Raim's fourth documentary feature, "Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen," will be released in Spring 2022 by Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber. Raim has screened his films and lectured at: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, HOT DOCS, Cannes Film Festival, DOC NYC, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, AFI Conservatory: Harold Lloyd Master Seminar, Walt Disney Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, ILM, DreamWorks Animation SKG, Sony Animation Studios, and Canadian Film Center/TIFF Bell Lightbox, among others. Raim has a passion for education, and in 2016 he embarked on an academic tour through India, where he screened his films and lectured on and the art and craft of documentary filmmaking. In 2017, Daniel partnered with Desktop-Documentaries.com and created an online course entitled: Documentary Storytelling and Scriptwriting.

Film	Credit
The Ozu Diaries2025 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
A Visit to the Pixar Living Archive2022 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Ralph-E: The Art of the Color Script2022 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen2022 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'2021 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies2020 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
CCasting a Shadow2019 · Director	Director
Introducing My Father, François Truffaut2019 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers2019 · Director	Director
Ozu & Noda2019 · Producer, Director, Writer	Producer, Director, Writer
OOzu & Noda2019 · Director	Director
Writing with the Camera2019 · Director	Director
Hitchcock, Hopper, and the Penultimate Moment2018 · Director	Director
IInventing "Andrei Rublev"2018 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Bo Harwood on 'A Woman Under the Influence'2018 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Aki and Peter2018 · Director	Director
In Search of Ozu2018 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
Marvel Mon Amour2018 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Bo Harwood on the Films of John Cassavetes2018 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story2017 · Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
Something's Gonna Live2010 · Director	Director
AA History of Project Mercury: Preparing for Man in Space2009 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Man on Lincoln's Nose2000 · Director	Director