Daniel Yoon(I)

Daniel Yoon was born outside of Chicago, and grew up in Toronto, the son of South Korean immigrants. He attended high school at the University of Toronto Schools, where he was elected Valedictorian by his classmates. He completed a BS with Distinction in Engineering Physics as well as a BA summa cum laude in History in four and half years at Cornell University, and played junior varsity ice hockey for Cornell. He received an MPA from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, where he was awarded the Somers Prize for best thesis. He has no formal film training.

Daniel has had several different careers. He's worked as an Outward Bound Instructor, leading extended canoe expeditions in Northern Ontario. He's also served environmental causes as an energy policy analyst in Washington DC and Colorado. And he was a management consultant to Fortune 1000 companies with McKinsey and Company.

Daniel's first feature Post Concussion (16mm 82 min 1999) was a no-budget partially autobiographical comedy about a successful consultant whose life changes in surprising ways after a serious head injury. Daniel was the Writer, Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor, and Lead Actor. For many shots in the film, Daniel would set up the Eclair NPR camera, turn it on, and then step into frame. Post Concussion won several festival awards, including the Taos Land Grant from the Taos Talking Pictures Festival (2000). Indiewire called it "Brilliant" and Variety "Intriguingly original and appealingly offbeat."