Biography

Daniel Y-Li Grove is a writer, director and producer working between Los Angeles and Berlin. A journalist turn filmmaker, Daniel graduated with an MFA from USC's School of cinema and his thesis short film; A Better Place Than This. After a successful international festival circuit, the film sold to PBS becoming their flagship short of 2013-15 and played to over 1,000 US markets. Together they produced Ana Lily Amirpour's instantaneous cult-hit film A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. Following the success of the loudly diverse and quirky vampire-western, Safai and Grove gazed inward to realise Grove's directorial debut The Loner; a modern gangster film set in the Iranian underbelly of Los Angeles, artfully captured through a neon lens. The film sold to Samuel Goldwyn and released to theatres in the Summer of 2017 as The Persian Connection.
- IMDb mini biography by: Black Light District