I’m a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker, writer, and illustrator from Croton-on-Hudson, NY. I seek out projects that document injustice, elevate excluded voices, and imagine better worlds.

While studying documentary film & photography at Ithaca College, I spent a semester at the University of Chile. I interned at the Salvador Allende Foundation’s audiovisual archive and studied the sociopolitical role of arts in Latin America.

Since then, I’ve roamed the US to record and edit hundreds of audio interviews for the non-profit organization StoryCorps, many of which were broadcast on NPR. I also produced StoryCorps’ signature series of animated shorts, which broadcast on PBS.

My personal documentary work has followed a bodega worker who fled Yemen’s ongoing civil war (Sandwiched, Cinematographer), two Syrian brothers who came to the US in the 1890’s and became beloved small town dentists (Kassab Family Dentistry, Co-Director), and the confusing experience of a boy who wanted to wear a dress in a small town (Can I Wear It? Director).

I’ve completed residencies at Pocoapoco (Oaxaca, Mexico 2020), UnionDocs (Brooklyn, NY 2018) the Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville, NY, 2013), and the Reykjavik Talent Lab (Iceland, 2013).

GET IN TOUCH: danielsitts@gmail.com / @dhsitts