About

Dan Sickles is an American filmmaker and the founder of dPop Studios, an emerging media company based in New York City.

His first film, MALA MALA, produced by Christine Vachon and Killer Films, received an Audience Award at the 2014 TriBeCa Film Festival and was released by Strand Releasing in 2015. MALA MALA is the first non-fiction film made in Puerto Rico to receive a theatrical release in North America and was nominated for a GLAAD Award in 2015. The same year, Dan was honored as one of Out Magazines Out100, and his production company was honored by Amnesty International and the Social Media Impact Awards for its approach to socially-conscious storytelling.    

In 2017, his second film, DINA, produced by Dan Cogan, Impact Partners, and Killer Films, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received the Grand Jury Prize. Later that year, DINA would win Best Feature Film at the International Documentary Association Awards, and Dan would receive the PEEK Award and the ARC Alliance Community Service Award for his work with neurodiverse communities.

Dan is currently in production on his next project, NEW HERE, a multi-format, multi-platform story about the power of art and culture told through the eyes of a new user entering the cryptosphere.

Dan has appeared as an actor in several stage productions, most notably as Hamlet in the 2011 production at Theater 80 in Manhattan, and Konstantin Treplev in The Seagull at Columbia Graduate. He has also appeared in the series High Maintenance as the understated, silent character Clive.

His writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, OUT Magazine, MTV News, and Gawker Media.

MALA MALA and DINA are available on DVD and for digital download.

Learn more about NEW HERE at newhere.xyz

Dan is represented by United Talent Agency. 

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