DANIEL KWAN & DANIEL SCHEINERT

I want to put you all onto the directing Daniels duo, consisting of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Most recently, you’ve probably heard of them because them made the incredible EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, which you should absolutely watch if you haven’t yet. I don’t want to go into too much detail on why this is one of my favorites of the year, but it gave me hope that unique and original stories still have a place in movie theaters. Bringing in $84M worldwide off a $25M budget shows that the weirdness doesn’t keep audiences away from the heart of the film, a beautiful story about the relationship between a mother and her daughter. The Daniels’ past work falls in a similar vein across mediums, and I want to especially highlight their other feature, SWISS ARMY MAN. It is hard not to love Daniel Radcliff’s performance that takes the audience past the incredibly strange flatulence focused story. Other projects worth noting are the music video for SIMPLE SONG by The Shins, their first short film SWINGERS, and Passion Pit’s video for CRY LIKE A GHOST. Their accolades run a very long list, but their voice shows throughout each project in such a passionate way. Deep dive into the whole list of their projects—it’s 100 percent worth it, I promise.

—Jackson Ingraham, Executive Assistant