Daniel Cross

Daniel Cross is co-founder of EYESTEELFILM in Montreal, named by RealScreen Magazine as one of the top 100 non-fiction production companies in the world. He is also an Assistant Professor at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University. He 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: Squeegee 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 , Chairman George (CTV, BBC Storyville and TV2 Denmark) and Inuuvunga: I am Inuk I am Alive . He was the Executive Producer of the internationally acclaimed Up the Yangtze , and producer on the Genie award winning film Last Train Home . Daniel is active in the film community having won a Trailblazer award at MIPDOC, Mentor of the Year from the CMPA and serves as board member of HOT DOCS, Documentary Organization of Canada, Quebec Chapter and The Concordia Documentary Centre.