Daniel Mann is a London-based filmmaker and writer whose work explores images and imaginaries of land and environment, often in relation to colonial and neocolonial politics, military occupation, and extractivism.
Mann's films have been screened and awarded at numerous festivals and institutions, including Berlinale, Visions du Réel, The Rotterdam Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, Documenta Madrid, Karlovy Vary, DOC NYC, IDFA, the Hong Kong Film Festival and the ICA in London. His most recent film, 'The Recce', premiered at the 2026 Berlinale and received the Fugas Award at Documenta Madrid. His new film, 'The Law of the Hyena ', was the recipient of the 2026 Eurimages Development Award at Visions du Réel and is scheduled to be filmed in 2027.
Mann’s first monograph, 'Occupying Habits: Media as Warfare in Israel/Palestine' (Bloomsbury and SOAS Palestine Centre, 2023), examines images of colonial violence in the West Bank, Palestine. His second monograph, Hot Locations: Cinema on the Planetary Frontier (forthcoming with University of California Press, 2027), explores the desert as a distinctive extractive formation within cinema: an environment framed, captured, rendered, and circulated as both a war zone and an extraterrestrial world.
Mann was a Humanities and Social Sciences Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King’s College London, and a Fellow at the Camargo Foundation.
contact: daniel.2.mann@kcl.ac.uk