Director
Daniel Raim
52 years · 20 films
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.
Best known for
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Dirty Beautiful
2015 · Editor
On Filmzie
Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers
2019 · Director
The Man on Lincoln's Nose
2000 · Director
Something's Gonna Live
2010 · Director
On Hoopla
Ozu & Noda
2019 · Producer, Director
Filmography 20
The Ozu Diaries
2025 · Director, Producer
A Visit to the Pixar Living Archive
2022 · Editor, Director
Ralph-E: The Art of the Color Script
2022 · Director, Producer
Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen
2022 · Director, Producer
On Plex
Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'
2021 · Director, Writer
Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies
2020 · Director, Producer
Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
2019 · Director, Producer
Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers
2019 · Director
Ozu & Noda
2019 · Producer, Director
Writing with the Camera
2019 · Director
Hitchcock, Hopper, and the Penultimate Moment
2018 · Director
Bo Harwood on 'A Woman Under the Influence'
2018 · Director, Producer
Aki and Peter
2018 · Director
In Search of Ozu
2018 · Director, Producer
Marvel Mon Amour
2018 · Director, Editor
Bo Harwood on the Films of John Cassavetes
2018 · Director, Producer
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Dirty Beautiful
2015 · Editor
On Filmzie
Something's Gonna Live
2010 · Director
On Hoopla
The Man on Lincoln's Nose
2000 · Director