Daniel Mann is a London-based filmmaker and writer. His work often interrogates the material politics of land, particularly in the contexts of colonialism and nationalism. His films have been screened and awarded in festivals such as the Berlinale, IFFR, Visions du Réel, Cinema du Réel, DocLisboa and the ICA in London. His film Under a Blue Sun recently received the International Jury Prize at Documenta Madrid. His new film in development, titled Uganda, was recently selected for the 2026 Visions du Réel Pitching where it received the Euroimages Development Award.
Mann is the author of Occupying Habits (Bloomsbury\SOAS Palestine Centre, 2023) and Hot Locations: Cinema on the Planetary Frontier (forthcoming with UC Press, 2026), as well as several other essays. He is currently a Lecturer (assistant professor) in the Film Studies department at King’s College London. He held positions as a Lecturer and Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Film Studies Department at King’s College London, and received his PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture and the Media Department at Goldsmiths College, London. Between 2021 and 2024, he was a fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis.