The Georgia State University Student Film Festival was created by Professor Daniel Robin, film maker and production faculty member in the School of Film, Media and Theatre.

Daniel Robin makes personal experimental documentary films that often incorporate fictional devices to mythologize his family history. His film my olympic summer won the Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize for Short Filmmaking, the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short at the Florida Film Festival, Best Documentary Short at the Nashville Film Festival, Director’s Choice Award at the Black Maria Film Festival, and the Onda Curta Award at IndieLisboa Film Festival. The film was also selected to screen at New Directors/New Films Festival in New York, Aspen, and True/False. His 2017 experimental documentary film All The Leaves Are Brown screened at over 30 film festivals and won the Best Director Award at the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Best Short Documentary at Sidewalk Film Festival, and Jury Award for Personal Vision at the Oxford Film Festival. The film also screened at: Curtas Vila Do Conde (Portugal), Minimalen Film Festival (Norway), EDOC (Ecuador), Analogica (Italy). Two of his previous films screened at Sundance, a feature narrative in competition at SXSW Film Festival, and several films at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. His 2019 film Petting Zoo has screened at 23 film festivals, many of those International, including: Ji.hlava IDFF and Analogica 9, Cork FF. Daniel’s work is widely seen in festivals throughout Europe and the U.S.

In 2000 Daniel pioneered documentary web video series creating the website neighborhoodfilms.com where he’s produced six documentary web series.

Filmmaker Magazine named Robin one of the  “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”

Daniel Robin is the writer, director, editor, cinematographer, and sound recordist for all of his films.