
Person
Daniel Raim
Directing · Born 1974-10-08
Biography
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.
Known for

Marvel Mon Amour
Producer

Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen
Producer

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Director

Dirty Beautiful
Editor

The Ozu Diaries
Director

Ralph-E: The Art of the Color Script
Director

Aki and Peter
Director

Something's Gonna Live
Director

Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'
Director
Inventing "Andrei Rublev"
Director
Filmography
- 2025The Ozu DiariesDirector
- 2022A Visit to the Pixar Living ArchiveEditor
- 2022Ralph-E: The Art of the Color ScriptDirector
- 2022Fiddler's Journey to the Big ScreenProducer
- 2021Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'Director
- 2020Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton ComediesDirector
- 2019Casting a ShadowDirector
- 2019Introducing My Father, François TruffautProducer
- 2019Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer CinematographersDirector
- 2019Ozu & NodaProducer
- 2019Ozu & NodaDirector
- 2019Writing with the CameraDirector
- 2018Hitchcock, Hopper, and the Penultimate MomentDirector
- 2018Inventing "Andrei Rublev"Director
- 2018Bo Harwood on 'A Woman Under the Influence'Director
- 2018Aki and PeterDirector
- 2018In Search of OzuDirector
- 2018Marvel Mon AmourProducer
- 2018Bo Harwood on the Films of John CassavetesDirector
- 2017Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love StoryDirector
- 2015Dirty BeautifulEditor
- 2010Something's Gonna LiveDirector
- 2009A History of Project Mercury: Preparing for Man in SpaceWriter
- 2000The Man on Lincoln's NoseDirector
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