Santhosh Daniel

Santhosh Daniel is the Executive Producer & Co-director of Bloodline. He is a writer, producer, and creative consultant specializing in strategic communications and independent media and arts, and founder of the creative collective Compound and creative director of First Kitchen Media, a food media initiative co-founded with chef Tu David Phu.

He is writer and producer of LIQUID FLOW, a short film about Oakland and the evolution of turf-dancing; creative director and executive producer of Open Account, a podcast by Slate; creator and co-executive producer of the forthcoming food and culture series TRY THIS!; and co-founder of the forthcoming social justice media initiative, The Adachi Fund, created in partnership with the San Francisco Office of the Public Defender and Even/Odd Films.

His professional experience includes The Global Film Initiative and works with the Smithsonian, Medium, Virgin America, Umpqua Bank, Oakland Museum of California, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and U.S. Department of State, and he has served on the Board of Directors of California Humanities and currently serves on the board of Found Sound Nation, a music innovation and diplomacy organization.

He has also served as an advisor for arts and media funds, including the San Francisco Arts Commission, California Arts Council, California Humanities, Center for Asian American Media, Headlands Center for the Arts, International Documentary Association, San Francisco Film Society, and European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs. He has a B.A. in English from the University of Washington and an M.F.A. in English from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.