An Academy-Award nominee and Emmy winner for the documentary SCOTTSBORO: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY, Daniel Anker has produced or directed numerous films and television programs. IMAGINARY WITNESS: HOLLYWOOD AND THE HOLOCAUST premiered in 2004 at the Tribeca Film Festival and has won several awards including the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Hamptons Film Festival, and the CINE Golden Eagle Special Jury Award for outstanding non-fiction film of the year. Another recent film MUSIC FROM THE INSIDE OUT, featuring the musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra, was a sleeper hit on the arthouse theatrical circuit and was nominated for the International Documentary Association’s distinguished Feature Award.

A graduate of Harvard University with a degree in music, Anker has produced a variety of other award-winning programs about music, including the acclaimed children’s series MARSALIS ON MUSIC and three seasons of the PBS series THE METROPOLITAN OPERA PRESENTS. Other documentary credits include the Emmy-nominated AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film DALEY, THE LAST BOSS (co-producer), and the THE MAGIC OF LA GUARDIA.

Additional awards and honors include a Peabody Award, four national Emmy Award nominations, the Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians, and multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.