Biography

Writer/Director Danielle Lurie was named by Filmmaker Magazine as being one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

Danielle's debut short film, In The Morning, premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, screened at the Tribeca film festival and has won nine film festivals to date including 'Best Narrative Short' at the Oscar qualifying Nashville Film Festival. In November 2005, In The Morning was invited to screen before the U.S. Congress at the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on Honor Killings, and later screened before UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women). Right after In The Morning, Danielle made the short impromptu documentary 81-Year-Old Sweethearts, about an 81-year-old man she randomly met on a plane who was flying across the country to re-meet his high school sweetheart after 62 years - which was featured on Yourtube's homepage due to the extremely high numbers of hits the video got.

Since In The Morning, Danielle has co-directed a documentary in Uganda where she lived in an IDP (Internally Displaced People) Camp and has directed a feature length documentary following Sheryl Crow's Global Warming tour through the deep south. On the narrative side, Danielle has written screenplay adaptations of Jamaica Kincaid's novel, LUCY, as well as an excerpt of Nicholas Kristof's best selling book, Half the Sky,for a PBS series.

Danielle graduated from Stanford University in 2000 with a BA in Philosophy. In addition to being a filmmaker, Danielle is also a photographer and painter.
- IMDb mini biography by: Shanna