Born in Mexico City in 1962, Daniel Goldberg received an MA degree from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television in 1989, specializing in film direction and screenwriting.
His award-winning documentary films include Halcyon (1988), a visual poem about the art of diving starring Olympic champion Greg Louganis, March of the Living (1992), which follows the voyage of 200 Mexican Jewish youths to the concentration camps of Poland to participate in an international event to commemorate the Holocaust, and A Kiss to This Land (1995), exploring the subject of Jewish immigration to Mexico in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
In 2002 he co-produced, with Oren Rudavsky Productions, Chato is Dead about the events that surrounded the death of an illegal Mexican worker in a construction accident in New York. He is currently directing and producing The Hidden Ones: A Story of the Crypto-Jews in North America, a series of three documentary films narrating the fascinating story of Crypto-Jews – Iberian Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition and continued to practice their Jewish faith in secret for generations – and their modern day descendants.
His award-winning documentary films include Halcyon (1988), a visual poem about the art of diving starring Olympic champion Greg Louganis, March of the Living (1992), which follows the voyage of 200 Mexican Jewish youths to the concentration camps of Poland to participate in an international event to commemorate the Holocaust, and A Kiss to This Land (1995), exploring the subject of Jewish immigration to Mexico in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
In 2002 he co-produced, with Oren Rudavsky Productions, Chato is Dead about the events that surrounded the death of an illegal Mexican worker in a construction accident in New York. He is currently directing and producing The Hidden Ones: A Story of the Crypto-Jews in North America, a series of three documentary films narrating the fascinating story of Crypto-Jews – Iberian Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition and continued to practice their Jewish faith in secret for generations – and their modern day descendants.