Daniel Eduvijes Carrera has screened at the Tribeca, Guadalajara, Morelia and Los Angeles Film Festivals, at numerous art museums and on international television broadcasts. He won Top Prize in Ovation TV’s “Search for the Next Revolutionary Filmmaker,” received the Garcia Bross Award at the Morelia International Film Festival, the Imagen Award for Excellence in Entertainment and was also recognized as Best Latine Film Director by the Directors Guild of America Student Film Awards.

Recently, Daniel garnered the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for Los Angeles County, is a Film Independent Fellow, a Tribeca Film Institute/Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. Daniel received the SFFILM Screenwriting Grant for INVOKING JUAN ANGEL, which won Best Screenplay at the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival where his subsequent film, SOLEDAD DE LOS INCENDIOS was also awarded Best Short Film. His latest work, EL PAISA, premiered at Outfest Los Angeles 2023, and has gone on to garner Audience and Jury Awards at the Long Beach, Highland Park, East LA and South Central LA Film Festivals. El PAISA was also recently awarded Best LGBTQ+ Short Film at the American Pavilion’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival.

The youngest son from a Mexican immigrant family of nine, Daniel achieved highest honors in Film and English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, studied Cinema and Mexican Culture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and was awarded a Dean’s Fellowship for an MFA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts.