Daniel Kwan

Daniel Kwan is an American filmmaker who works as one half of the directing duo known as the Daniels, together with Daniel Scheinert. Born in 1988 in Westborough, Massachusetts, to a Taiwanese mother and a father from Hong Kong, he studied film at Emerson College in Boston, where he met Scheinert, and graduated in 2010. The pair first made their name with music videos, including Houdini for Foster the People and Turn Down for What for DJ Snake and Lil Jon, in which Kwan also appeared. They moved to features with Swiss Army Man in 2016, which won the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, then wrote and directed Everything Everywhere All at Once in 2022, which won the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Kwan has also directed television episodes, and in 2018 he co-founded We Direct Music Videos, a community of music video directors committed to sustainable working practices.