Daniel J. Egbert
Directing
Biography
Daniel J. Egbert is a student Emmy nominated filmmaker, a finalist in the 2024 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, and 2023 Academy Nicholl Fellowship. He is the 2021 recipient of the Richard P. Rogers Spirit Of Excellence Award For Directing presented by AFI Fest, and one of twelve directors selected for the seventh annual CAA Moebius Showcase. Originally from New York, Daniel left home at seventeen to join the United States Marine Corps Infantry. He served four deployments including both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Daniel’s work explores loss of control, and how trauma complicates but beautifies the human experience—through themes of inadequacy, rage, and rebirth. Daniel earned an MFA in Directing from the AFI Conservatory. His films while in attendance were nominated for the KODAK/UFVF Excellence In Filmmaking Award, garnered twenty-one nominations and ten wins, including six Oscar Qualifying selections. Daniel is a writer for CBS Studios/Paramount+ and is represented by CAA and Wildflower.
Known For
In 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS, Leroy Jethro Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office, where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks.
NCIS: Origins
After missing his wife's phone call goodbye on the morning of September 11th, a now listless and brokenhearted music teacher must harmonize with his increasingly desperate fourteen-year-old son.
CHORUS
An artist who lives in an old mansion imagines that her dead husband has been reincarnated as her son.
Bad Blood
Veteran Gio Scuderi receives a package that sends him on a road trip to fulfill a promise and confront his trauma.
A Place in the Field
In the United States alone, twenty-two Veterans commit suicide per day. Project 22 follows two combat-wounded Veterans on a mission to find hope. Riding motorcycles from San Francisco to New York, Daniel and Doc speak with Veterans about post-war challenges that lead to suicide and the healing Veterans are finding in alternative forms of therapy such as sailing, pottery, education, service dogs and more. During the 6,500 mile journey, our riders interview leading researchers, mental health clinicians and educators who specialize in Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress, as well as, a leading expert in Warrior Culture and Combat Stress. Asking hard hitting questions and opening up about their own struggles, Daniel and Doc will stop at nothing to reach tomorrow's twenty-two.
Project 22
When a suffocating veteran turned pill-addicted firefighter meets a breath of fresh air in the shape of a thrill-addicted E.R. nurse, one charged night through Los Angeles ignites more than flames.
Porcelain
A trip to the desert to spread mother's ashes unearths an ancient infestation.