Daniel Dewsbury
Director, “Dunkirk”:
Erased: WW2's Heroes of Color
Winner of the 2020 BAFTA Breakthrough Brit Award, Daniel Dewsbury is a determined and tenacious director with significant experience in maintaining relationships in extremely sensitive situations and has a wonderful talent for drawing out remarkable stories. He has a particular skill in looking for the extraordinary within the ordinary. He is most enthusiastic about working on documentaries that push the form and give voice to marginalized communities. Starting his career as a cinematographer, Dewsbury won the Guild of Camera Professionals Award twice for Excellence in Factual Cinematography, and he was also nominated for a BAFTA for Factual Cinematography in 2018 and 2019. He has also won four Royal Television Society Awards for Cinematography and has been nominated for eight BAFTAS as a director, most recently for the biographical feature documentary “Hatton.”