Lee Daniel

Lee Daniel (born January 23, 1962 in Dallas , Texas ) is an American cameraman . He was best known through his longstanding collaboration with director Richard Linklater .

Life

Daniel made his first Super 8 films as a teenager . Daniel cites filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Kenneth Anger as an influence. In the early 1980s he moved to Austin, Texas , where he began studying at the University of Texas at Austin .

From 1984 he worked there for the production company Texas Pacific Film , where he learned his trade with Richard Kooris, among others . He met Richard Linklater through the Heart of Texas Filmmakers, a group of Super 8 filmmakers. Linklater founded the Austin Film Society with Daniel in 1985 .

In 1988 Daniel was hired as an assistant cameraman in the production of the film DOA - Murder On Arrival . From 1990 onwards the first engagements as the chief cameraman followed. In 1991 he was responsible for camera work for Linklater's debut feature film Rumtreiber . Also in Linklater's next films Confusion - Summer of the Freaky , Before Sunrise and SubUrbia - Sixpacks, Sex + Supermarkets .

Then he turned to the work on documentaries. It was not until 2002 that there was a renewed collaboration with Linklater for the film Boyhood , which was filmed over a period of more than 10 years and dealt with growing up as a boy. In 2004 Daniel also filmed Linklater's next directorial work, Before Sunset . Their last collaboration alongside Boyhood was in 2006 with the film Fast Food Nation . After that, Daniel turned back mainly to making documentaries.

Filmography (selection)

1990: Never Leave Nevada
1991: Marauder (Slacker)
1993: Rift
1993: Confusion - summer Ausgeflippten (Dazed and Confused)
1995: Before Sunrise
1996: SubUrbia - Sixpacks, Sex + Supermarkets (SubUrbia)
1998: Secrets of the CIA (documentary)
2000: I Remember Me (documentary)
2003: Lubbock Lights (documentary)
2004: Before Sunset
2004: Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (documentary)
2005: You're Gonna Miss Me (documentary)
2006: Fast Food Nation
2007: The Unforeseen (documentary)
2008: Loyalty (documentary)
2008: A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film (Documentary)
2008: The Dungeon Masters (documentary)
2009: Sunshine (documentary)
2010: As Long as I Remember: American Veteranos (documentary)
2014: Boyhood
2015: The Other Kind
2016: The Seer: A Portrait of Wendell Berry (documentary)
2016: Honky Tonk Heaven: Legend of the Broken Spoke (documentary)

Web links

Lee Daniel in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

^ Alison Macor: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas . University of Texas Press, Austin, 2010, ISBN 978-0-292-72243-9 , 90
^ Alison Macor: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas . University of Texas Press, Austin, 2010, ISBN 978-0-292-72243-9 , 153
↑ ^a ^b Lee Daniel at brokenspokefilm.com, accessed August 3, 2016
^ Alison Macor: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas . University of Texas Press, Austin, 2010, ISBN 978-0-292-72243-9 , 9
^ Alison Macor: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas . University of Texas Press, Austin, 2010, ISBN 978-0-292-72243-9 , 92

personal data
SURNAME	Daniel, Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dallas , Texas , United States

[1] Alison Macor: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas . University of Texas Press, Austin, 2010, ISBN 978-0-292-72243-9 , 90

[2] Alison Macor: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas . University of Texas Press, Austin, 2010, ISBN 978-0-292-72243-9 , 153

[HTHF-3] Lee Daniel at brokenspokefilm.com, accessed August 3, 2016

[4] Alison Macor: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas . University of Texas Press, Austin, 2010, ISBN 978-0-292-72243-9 , 9

[5] Alison Macor: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas . University of Texas Press, Austin, 2010, ISBN 978-0-292-72243-9 , 92