Daniel Kwan
Filmmaker & Director
About
Daniel Kwan is an American filmmaker who, alongside Daniel Scheinert as the duo known as the Daniels, wrote and directed Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), which won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. He has become a prominent voice on AI's impact on creative industries, advocating for collective action to shape how the entertainment industry adopts AI technology.
Key Contributions
- Co-directed Everything Everywhere All at Once, turning multiverse spectacle into a story about family, attention, and overload
- Won seven Academy Awards with that film, proving formally strange cinema could still become mass culture
- Co-directed Swiss Army Man, showing an early taste for absurdity, embodiment, and emotional sincerity
- Became an outspoken Hollywood voice urging collective rules before generative AI reshapes creative labor
- His AI stance defends artists, though studios and toolmakers will test whether moral appeals can become enforceable industry norms
Videos & Interviews
Daniel Kwan & Jaron Lanier: Can Human Storytelling Survive the Algorithm?
Berggruen Institute Studio B conversation on AI's Hollywood takeover and why the industry must unite to set the terms of adoption
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Daniel Kwan on AI Reshaping Creative Workflows & Independent Filmmaking
Discussion on how AI is changing creative processes and what it means for independent filmmakers
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