Daniel Hoyos - Director of the Seattle Shorts Film Festival

Daniel Hoyos is a filmmaker, and director of the popular Seattle Shorts Film Festival now in its 6th year. After graduating with a degree in film, and communications in 2009 Daniel got his first job working for the nationally syndicated TV Show Biz Kids on PBS, as a production assistant. The following year he got hired at the international film festival “National Film Festival for Talented Youth” as the submissions and programming intern. Since then he worked at the “Children’s Film Festival of Seattle” where he helped program the week long 2011 festival, at the Northwest Film Forum.

In 2012 Daniel produced his most ambitious short film to date "No One Knows" when 12-year-old Jason looks in his neighbor's window, he learns he's not the only kid living in an abusive environment. What he learns will change his life forever. The film was accepted into 18 film festivals, and premiered as an editor’s pick on the Shorts HD Network this January part of Direct TV.

Daniel also freelanced for I Am Entertainment Magazine interviewing cover stories with Director Elgin James of Little Birds, and Director Maggie Kelly of ‘Dial a Prayer”.

In 2013 Daniel became the festival director of the Seattle Shorts Film Festival "Our goal was and is to bring Seattle film lovers the best of short films from the globe.” The Seattle Shorts is an annual festival at the SIFF Film Center. The 6th annual festival will take place November 11th and 13th 2016 at the “SIFF Film Center."