Biography
While his first degree is in communication engineering, Daniel Abad has also graduated with first honours from the ECAM – Madrid’s school of cinema. Combining these two areas of knowledge along with his fine arts studies, Daniel’s professional ambitions are now articulated around photography and directing: his commitment has been such that his work as a cinematographer for the short-movie “A Tiempo” has won the 2010 Spanish National Kodak award. Since he has moved to Madrid, Spain, in 2007, Daniel has been involved in several movie projects such as Maktub (Paco Arango, 2009), The Cold Light of Day (Mabrouk El Mechri, 2011) or Coloquio en la Residencia (Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, 2010) and he is now editing a documentary filmed in Balmandir, one of Kathmandú (Nepal) numerous orphanages.
