Talent Guide

Daniel Lombroso

  • Discipline:Director
  • Program Year:Documentary Story Lab 2025

Bio

Daniel Lombroso is a director and journalist who spent the last nine years building the Oscar-nominated video departments at The New Yorker and The Atlantic. His debut feature White Noise, based on his reporting inside white nationalist movements, was named one of the top documentaries of 2020 by Vox and The Boston Globe. His short, Nina & Irena, executive produced by Errol Morris, won multiple festival awards, while Nina’s full interview was added to the U.S. Holocaust Museum’s Permanent Collection. Lombroso’s work has premiered at Sundance, TIFF, SXSW and has earned eight Vimeo Staff Picks, two National Magazine Award nominations, an IDA nomination and a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Current Project

You'll Be Happier

Logline

You'll Be Happier follows a year in the life of Bill Moore, a gay businessman in Dallas striving to make penis enlargement as common as Botox. This darkly funny and deeply empathetic film is a frank exploration of how men are navigating new standards of masculinity and beauty in the age of Trump.