Daniel Goldhaber

Goldhaber grew up in a Jewish family and attended Harvard University where he completed the Visual and Environmental Studies film program.^[1] While an undergraduate, he wrote, produced, and directed the 2013 short film Bad Kid, which was selected as a short film of the month by Cinephilia and Beyond.^[2] He also worked as an assistant editor on Chasing Ice, the Academy Award-nominated documentary about the Extreme Ice Survey.^[3]

Goldhaber's first feature was the 2018 horror film Cam, a Netflix original movie produced by Blumhouse Productions, starring Madeline Brewer. The Guardian called it "an excellent exploration of personas and projection online,"^[4] and The New York Times said it "upend[ed] the typical thriller trope of the sex worker as helpless victim"^[5]

In 2022, he wrote, produced, and directed How to Blow Up a Pipeline, an adaptation of Andreas Malm's 2021 nonfiction Verso book of the same name.^[6][7] The film had its festival premiere in the Platform Prize program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival^[8][9] and was released theatrically by Neon in 2023.^[10][11] It stars Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck, Sasha Lane, Jayme Lawson, Marcus Scribner, Jake Weary, and Irene Bedard.^[6]