Daniel's first film, After Spring Comes Fall, won the Award for Best Feature at Zsigmond Vilmos Festival in Sziget, Hungary. He worked as a TV journalist for ARTE and BBC Arabic in the Middle East before moving to Los Angeles in 2019, where he holds a directing fellowship at the American Film Institute. He currently divides his time between preparing his third feature and teaching film development at the Raindance Institute in London, UK, and the IAFM in Dhaka, Bangladesh.