Daniel Warth

History

Daniel Warth is an award-winning screenwriter and film director. His first narrative feature DIM THE FLUORESCENTS won the Grand Jury Award at the Slamdance Film Festival and was hailed as “One of the Year’s Strongest Debuts” by The New York Times. His first documentary UNTOLD HOURS will have its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2022, Daniel was one of eight international screenwriters selected to participate in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Writers’ Studio programme with his upcoming feature film ENDURING, which he developed with the support of Telefilm Canada, Ontario Creates, The Harold Greenberg Fund and Canada Council for the Arts.

Movies

Untold Hours
Untold Hours
Editor
Visual artist Alicia Nauta embarks on an ambitious new project in which she is both the creator and the canvas. Unfolding nearly wordlessly to the percussive music of John Cage, UNTOLD HOURS captures the painstaking labour of an artist at work with a singular blend of absurd humour and unexpected beauty.
Untold Hours
Untold Hours
Director
Visual artist Alicia Nauta embarks on an ambitious new project in which she is both the creator and the canvas. Unfolding nearly wordlessly to the percussive music of John Cage, UNTOLD HOURS captures the painstaking labour of an artist at work with a singular blend of absurd humour and unexpected beauty.
Panoramic Sleights
Panoramic Sleights
Director
While trapped indoors, household screens become windows to the outside world.
God Straightens Legs
God Straightens Legs
Producer
Filmmaker Joële Walinga documents a moment of faith and waiting in the life of her Christian mother, a French-Canadian living in the Bible Belt who has opted to forgo cancer treatment.
Cave Small Cave Big
Cave Small Cave Big
Editor
Cave Small Cave Big is a film written by five-year-olds Madeline Harker and Adelaide Schwartz. Made to respect the gravity of the material, the film jumps from character to character as they cope with the transience of ownership, capturing that moment in a young mind when new muscles are stretched to grapple with ideas about possession and loss.
Dim the Fluorescents
Dim the Fluorescents
Writer
A struggling actress and an aspiring playwright pour all of their creative energy into the only paying work they can find: role-playing demonstrations for corporate training seminars. When they book the biggest gig of their careers at a hotel conference, they commence work on their most ambitious production to date.
Dim the Fluorescents
Dim the Fluorescents
Director
A struggling actress and an aspiring playwright pour all of their creative energy into the only paying work they can find: role-playing demonstrations for corporate training seminars. When they book the biggest gig of their careers at a hotel conference, they commence work on their most ambitious production to date.