Daniel Hart

Daniel Hart

Co-Director, Native Voices
Professor, American Indian Studies
Adjunct Professor, Communication
Chair and Director, Canadian Studies

Mr. Hart is an award-winning documentary producer and director, who has been working with Native American and 1st Nations educators, media producers, and youth for over 20 years. He is deeply involved with the development of indigenous pedagogy and indigenous research methodologies. His is currently producing a number of collaborative media projects with Native American health professionals and educators.

Daniel Hart films include The Place of the Falling Waters, White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men, Transitions: Destruction of a Mother Tongue, and the recently completed HD program, A Dream for Water. His films have been screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, the Vienna Film Festival, the Margaret Mead Festival, the Smithsonian, as well as many other venues around the U.S. and abroad. The National Native American Film Festival named him “Producer of the Year”. He has an M.F.A. from Temple University, with training in the anthropology of visual communications.