Dan Goldes
- Director
- Producer
- Editor
Dan Goldes is a documentary filmmaker based in San Francisco, CA. His feature documentary, "5 Blocks," about a San Francisco neighborhood undergoing a dramatic change, debuted at the San Francsico Green Film Festival in 2019 before playing at festivals in Rotterdam, Istanbul, and Prague.
Dan's first film, "ub2", about language related to HIV, was an official selection of 40 U.S. and international film festivals, while his second, "Equal Justice Under Law", about the U.S. Supreme Court's marriage equality decision, played at 20 festivals around the world. "Arrested (Again)", a short documentary about nonviolent civil disobedience activist Karen Topakian, premiered at the San Francisco Green Film Festival in April 2017. It has screened at 55 festivals around the world to date. "Keeper of the Creek", about one man's work to protect an under-appreciated urban waterway, premiered in 2018 and has screened in Kuala Lumpur, Poland, and the U.S. "Paul Panish: Poem On My Eighty-Seventh Birthday," premiered in 2022 and won the Good Life Audience Award at Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema.
Dan is a graduate of the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking and has served on the screening committees of the San Francisco Green Film Festival and the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. He was in the residency program at San Francisco's Ninth Street Independent Film Center from 2015-2019.
Dan's first film, "ub2", about language related to HIV, was an official selection of 40 U.S. and international film festivals, while his second, "Equal Justice Under Law", about the U.S. Supreme Court's marriage equality decision, played at 20 festivals around the world. "Arrested (Again)", a short documentary about nonviolent civil disobedience activist Karen Topakian, premiered at the San Francisco Green Film Festival in April 2017. It has screened at 55 festivals around the world to date. "Keeper of the Creek", about one man's work to protect an under-appreciated urban waterway, premiered in 2018 and has screened in Kuala Lumpur, Poland, and the U.S. "Paul Panish: Poem On My Eighty-Seventh Birthday," premiered in 2022 and won the Good Life Audience Award at Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema.
Dan is a graduate of the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking and has served on the screening committees of the San Francisco Green Film Festival and the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. He was in the residency program at San Francisco's Ninth Street Independent Film Center from 2015-2019.