Film
Daniel Nils Roberts is an experienced award-winning film-maker, working creatively across genres.
Daniel’s distinctive film-making style combines contemporary cinematic visuals with a unique comic sensibility, resulting in factual, documentary and fiction work that marries inventive storytelling with quirky humour.
He was previously Creative Director at Oxford-based digital indie production house Angel Sharp Media, and has produced and directed hundreds of videos for a range of major clients and institutions. He recently combined his comedy and film-making skills as part of a three-person think tank reviewing the digital activities of Comic Relief and advising the CEO directly on the organisation’s future creative strategy.
He has written for BAFTA-winning online comedy series History Bombs, has produced hit comedy podcasts, and has interviewed leading figures in all walks of life, including Oscar, Grammy and Nobel Prize winners.
Daniel studied English Language & Literature at The University of Oxford.
As a writer he is signed to leading agency Noel Gay.
Factual
Daniel brings journalistic research and writing skills, as well as a strong sense for storytelling to his factual work.
In his previous role as Creative Director at Angel Sharp Media Daniel led production on multiple globe-trotting videos for online platform BBC Ideas. Films he directed include The Land Where Elves Rule, Should We All Write in Chinese? and Forget Hygge: The Laws That Really Rule in Scandinavia, which has been one of BBC Ideas’ most popular videos, and is used as an example of best practice in their commissioning briefs.
Documentary
Daniel’s documentary work showcases sensitivity, humour and an eye for the unusual.
Along with acclaimed theatre director Titas Halder Daniel co-directed Bombastic Rubbish, an irreverent and playful short documentary about Britain’s greatest ever theatre architect, featuring actor Simon Callow.
It was launched in the London Hippodrome with a Q&A featuring the legendary Timothy West, and was selected both for the Rotterdam International Architectural Film Festival, and for inclusion in a book on architecture in film: Spots In Shots. In 2020 the film will form part of a new exhibition on Matcham’s work at the V&A Museum.
Fiction
Daniel’s fiction shorts range from viral comedy sketches, to cinematic narrative pieces.
Most recently, his film Avstand won the 2020 Filmkappløpet (48-hr film challenge) at the Norwegian International Film Festival, with Daniel as the sole crew member, and his parents as first-time actors!