Daniel Oxenhandler is an impact producer and filmmaker, working in a collaborative role for both National Sawdust (NS) and VisionIntoArt (VIA). His role weaves together diverse strands of artistic and community practice — creating films and visual media for VIA and NS projects; building community engagement and social impact campaigns; developing institutional and community partnerships; co-creating institutional strategy together with the VIA and NS leadership teams; and leading grant fundraising for both VIA and NS.

Over the last 10 years, he has co-produced, organized and curated major arts projects and festivals across the world - with a particular focus on creating spaces for shared learning and community building; bringing together artists, scholars, activists and community leaders from around the world. Festivals and projects include the Reimagine Disability Arts Festival in collaboration with the Hamlet Theatre in Elsinore, Denmark; Catapulta Festival for Social Innovation, Music & Art in Oaxaca, Mexico; and the Construkt Festival in Bangalore, India (Technology, Design, Impact and Entrepreneurship).

As a filmmaker, he creates music films and documentaries. His first feature documentary, the Open Window, premiered at CPH:DOX in 2019, was featured as part of the Sheffield Doc/Player and won the Youth Jury award at the Festival de Popoli. Over the last two years, he has been collaborating with filmmaker and sound explorer Vincent Moon, primarily supporting with editing on a range of different film projects from around the world, as well as occasionally collaborating to film and document aspects of Moon’s live cinema and site-specific creations (Symphonie of Ségries 2024).

Daniel is currently based in New York City, and has previously spent time living nomadically, as well as dwelling for extended periods of time in India, Indonesia, Brasil, México, Denmark and Spain.