DANIELA KON
DIRECTOR | PRODUCER | DP | IMPACT CONSULTANT
Kon is an award winning documentary filmmaker, producer and consultant with over 10 years expertise in global humanitarian development and social impact media.
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, she has worked with filmmakers, NGOs and aid organizations in Cambodia, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Israel, Liberia, Senegal, and the US creating documentaries and advocacy campaigns about a plethora of humanitarian and human rights issues. Her film credits range from the award winning documentary TALIBE, the United Nations FAO Ending Hunger Campaign, and the UN GCARD, to collaborations with grassroots initiatives in Education, Voluntourism, Youth Leadership, Girls and Women’s Empowerment, LGBT Rights, Water Management, Agricultural Development, Children’s Rights, and Modern-day Slavery.
Kon is a member of CAP with Creative Visions Foundation, a board member of the HRW Film Committee and the Women’s Rights Committee of Human Rights Watch in Los Angeles, a producer and strategist for social issue documentaries, impact media productions, and international advocacy campaigns. In 2012, Kon founded the Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA) and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Kon completed her BA in Media and Cultural Studies (w/First Class Honors), and MA in Documentary Production (w/Merit) at The London College of Communications and Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2003 she was a production assistant for Killer Films in New York. In 2004/2005 she worked for Emmy award-winning director Marc Levin’s NYC Production company, Blowback Productions, and was the researcher and assistant editor for “Protocols of Zion,” an Official Sundance Selection. She founded DEEDA Productions in 2006 and has worked in the human rights and development sector ever since.
As Director of DEEDA and SIMA, Kon is committed to advance the culture of social-impact filmmaking and to supporting filmmakers and change-makers in their work. She is currently producing a documentary about transgender identity-politics in the US, a film about inner city youth program, Street Poets with Director, Vanessa Crocini, and amplifying SIMA Film Programs that maximize impact and exposure of SIMA selected films, through partner festivals, educational and advocacy forums around the world.
FILMOGRAPHY
PRODUCER
Street Poets
DEEDA + 2503 Productions 2015
Sharon Franklin Brown
DEEDA Productions 2014
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER / DP
MISS WAKORLOR: Liberia
DEEDA Productions 2013
STORIES FROM THE FIELD: Bangladesh
DEEDA Productions/ RDA 2012
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER / DP / EDITOR
TALIBE – The Least Favored Children of Senegal
DEEDA Productions 2011
WINNER – Best Documentary (IMA 2012)
WINNER – Best Cinematography (IMA 2012)
PEPY Tours INFO Video PEPY 2010
Opportunity Collaboration – CNN1 2010
Meeting Mickey – RDI Cambodia
Mickey Sampson Foundation 2010
Tedx Co-inspiring the Future – Lovetta Conto
The Strongheart Fellowship 2010
PRODUCER
United Nations 1Billion Hungry Campaign PSA
UNFAO 2010
DIRECTOR / DP
United Nations GCARD – Bangladesh
Visiontime/ UNFAO 2010
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER / DP
Changing the World on Vacation – NGOs and the Politics of Compassion (DEEDA 2009 / 2012)
WINNER – Best Intl’ Documentary (BFFLA 2009)
Dubai Cares Promo Dubai Cares 2009
Volunteer Globally Short Film Dubai Cares 2009
The PEPY Ride Notre Dame Social Venture Competition PEPY 2006
RESEARCHER
O.G.- Original Gangster Blowback Productions 2005
DP
Kooks
Directed by Matt Smith/New York 2005
RESEARCHER / ASSISTANT EDITOR
Protocols of Zion HBO/THINK Films 2005
Official Sundance Selection 2005
Who Killed Christa Worthington HBO 2004
ASSISTANT EDITOR / PA
Last Party 3000
MTV/HBO 2004
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Back In The Hood HBO 2004
Crobar: NYC Nightlife HBO 2004
Dizzy Rascal Live
Blowback Productions 2004
A Dirty Shame Fine Line Features 2004
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER / EDITOR
Maya Saban Live
Courtesy of Virgin Records/ Frankfurt 2004
4.2 Paris 2004
Our Root London 2003
Women who Seek to be Equal with Men Lack Ambition London 2003