Daniel Jewel

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Daniel Jewel is a London based film producer and director. Since graduating from Oxford University with an MA in Modern History, Daniel has worked with many of the UK’s top film and TV directing talent including Stephen Poliakoff, Charles Sturridge and Brian Gilbert. He started his career working for British actor, Anthony Andrews production company Double A Films. Whilst there he worked for legendary producer Derek Granger who produced the famous TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. He also set up the London office for Cinecitta Studios, the world-famous film studios where Federico Fellini made many of his masterpieces.

In 2006, Daniel was selected as one of the UK's top up and coming film producers, and was placed on a 9-month fast track training programme by Marc Samuelson, producer of films such as Tom and Viv and Wilde. Whilst on the programme Daniel worked for many of the biggest companies involved in the film business including Paramount Pictures, Focus Features, Capitol Films, Olswang, Allied Irish Bank, Momentum Pictures among many others. Since graduating from this programme Daniel produced a range of projects including the controversial hit play Allegiance at the Edinburgh Festival, which starred Mel Smith as Winston Churchill opposite Michael Fassbender as the Irish leader, Michael Collins. The play was directed by Brian Gilbert and written by the Irish playwright Mary Kenny. The play came to world-wide attention when Mel Smith threatened to flout the Scottish smoking laws which banned him from smoking a trademark cigar in his portrayal of Winston Churchill^[1].

Also active in documentary films, Daniel produced and directed two films for Channel 4 which focused on the shisha smoking cafes of London's Arabic quarter^[2]. The films were called Shisha Cafe and Shisha Boys. He also directed a film for Al Gore's Current TV called Ramadan in London which focused on a family of Iraqis whose father escaped the notorious Abu Ghraib prison under Saddam Hussein, to start a new life in London together. The film shows the family celebrating the end of Ramadan now safe together in the UK^[3].

Daniel owns and runs the production company, Third Man Films and will be in production on the psychological thriller feature film Analogue^[4]later this year, commissioned by Film London.