Daniel Algrant

Daniel Algrant is an award-winning American filmmaker and writer based in New York City. He is best known for co-writing and directing Naked in New York (1993), a film produced by Martin Scorsesse which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received the Critics Prize at the Deauville International Film Festival. Algrant was a repeat director for the iconic television series Sex and The City (1999) and the noted director of the films People I Know (2002), starring Al Pacino and Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012). Algrant is an alumnus of Harvard University and the Columbia University Film school.

Introduction

Daniel Algrant is an award-winning American filmmaker and writer based in New York City. He is best known for co-writing and directing Naked in New York (1993), a film produced by Martin Scorsesse which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received the Critics Prize at the Deauville International Film Festival. Algrant was a repeat director for the iconic television series Sex and The City (1999) and the noted director of the films People I Know (2002), starring Al Pacino and Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012). Algrant is an alumnus of Harvard University and the Columbia University Film school.

Early Life

Algrant was born on September 25th, 1959 in New York City to parents Roland Algrant, a Turkish immigrant and Rosalie Callahan a Russian immigrant -- both of whom worked in publishing. His father later became a prominent human rights activist helping to spur the development of Human Rights Watch and went on to lead The Children’s Rights Watch.

Algrant’s love for film and television was first seeded after a near-death fall from a tree at the age of eight that left him isolated and bedridden for an extended stretch of his childhood. An advanced student, Algrant attended Phillips Academy Andover High School, a top boarding school located in Massachusetts at just 12 years old. While attending school he moved in with his grandmother in Cornwall, Connecticut who was a formative figure in his young life. He attended Andover for four years where he began filmmaking.

After highschool, Algrant moved to Los Angeles where he took different jobs in lighting and became a gaffer in documentaries for independent filmmakers Joyce Chopra and Dick Rogers.

External links

• Daniel Algrant at IMDb