Daniel Cross

Daniel Cross is a multi-disciplined award winning documentary filmmaker who has made his mark with films concerning the issues of homelessness in Canada. His feature length films, THE STREET: a film with the homeless and S.P.I.T: Squegee Punks In Traffic received theatrical distribution and critical acclaim. Along with the groundbreaking website HomelessNation.Org, these projects are reflective of his artistic philosophy that film is a medium for affecting social and political change. Daniel also has experience in TV broadcast, having directed and produced the Gemini nominated Too Colourful for the League and Chairman George (CTV, BBC Storyville and TV2 Denmark). He was the Executive Producer of the internationally acclaimed Up the Yangtze, about a pleasure cruise through the devastation of the world's largest hydro-electric dam. In addition to making films, Daniel is active in the film community, having won a TRAILBLAZER award at MIPDOC in France, MENTOR OF THE YEAR from the CFTPA and serving as board member of HOT DOCS and the Documentary Organization of Canada. He also teaches film production at Concordia University.