Bio and CV

Daniel Laabs

writer director

AWARD/GRANTS+/RESIDENCY^

2009 Jury Prize, Narrative Short – Videofest 2009 Jury Prize, Comedic Short – Videofest 2011 Grand Jury Prize, Texas Short – SXSW 2011 Texas Filmmaker Production Fund Recipient+ 2013 AFS Artist Intensive^ 2014 Special Jury Prize, Directing – Dallas IFF 2016 Austin Film Society Grant Recipient+ 2016 IFP, No Borders Co-production Market 2017 IFP, Narrative Completion Lab 2017 SFFILM/Kenneth Rainin Grant Recipient+ 2017 US in Progress Post Production, Wrocław PL+ 2017 La Biennale di Venezia College – Cinema^ 2018 US & French Connection 2018 IFP, No Borders Co-production Market 2018 Grand Jury Prize, Narrative Feature - NewFest 2019 Grand Jury Prize, Narrative Feature - OutFest L.A.

FILMORGRAPHY (selected)

2009 sleet/snow, short narrative 2009 Start a Band, short narrative 2010 Haggle, short narrative 2011 8, short documentary/narrative (co-director) 2014 Easy, short narrative, HD 2018 Jules of Light and Dark, feature narrative The Expat, feature narrative, (development) Only, Only, feature narrative, (development) Andre in the Morning, short narrative, (development)

Bio

Daniel Laabs’s short film work has screened at film festivals around the world and received a Grand Jury Prize at SXSW in 2011. His debut feature "Jules of Light and Dark" was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at OutFest and NewFest and was released on Showtime. Daniel has received support from the La Biennale di Venezia College - Cinema, Austin Film Society, The Gotham, the San Francisco Film Society & Kenneth Rainin Foundation, the Cannes Producer's Network, USinProgress - Wrocław and US & French Connection.

Daniel currently lives in Dallas, TX where he works as an editor and story producer. He has previously served as Film Curator for the Dallas International Film Festival, the Oak Cliff Film Festival, and Texas Theatre. He co-founded Dallas's first monthly LGBT film series in 2014 and PleasureStyleAttitude in 2019. In 2022 he served as the Lead Mentor for Pegasus Media Project’s Media Apprentice Program and he currently serves on the Austin Film Society Filmmaker Advisory Council.