A black and white portrait of Daniel Nelson. A white man with a beard and mustache is surrounded by film cameras, he looks down to the right through a camera lens he holds.
Daniel A. Nelson
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Director

Daniel A. Nelson is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who worked as a cinematographer and researcher on Oscar-nominated director David France’s feature-length documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, which celebrates the lasting political legacy of trans icon Marsha P. Johnson and seeks to finally solve the mystery of her unexplained death, the film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and landed on Netflix. Daniel received his Master’s from the Columbia Journalism School in documentary filmmaking in 2016. His thesis at Columbia was a short documentary called Posture about the controversial world of competitive yoga, which premiered at the 2017 Long Island International Film Expo and was published on Yoga Journal.

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