Writer/Director Danielle Lurie graduated from Stanford University in 2000 with a BA in Philosophy. Danielles debut short film, IN THE MORNING, premiered at the 2005  Sundance Film Festival, and has won nine film festivals to date including Best Narrative Short at the Oscar qualifying Nashville Film Festival. In November 2005, IN THE MORNING was invited to screen before the U.S. Congress at the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on Honor Killings, and later screened before UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women).  Right after IN THE MORNING, Danielle made the short impromptu documentary 81-YEAR-OLD SWEETHEARTS, about an 81-year-old man she randomly met on a plane who was flying across the country to re-meet his high school sweetheart after 62 years - which was featured on YOUTUBES HOMEPAGE due to the high numbers of hits the video got. 

Since IN THE MORNING, Danielle has co-directed a documentary in Uganda where she lived in an IDP (Internally Displaced People) Camp and has directed a feature length documentary following Sheryl Crows Global Warming tour through the deep south, produced by Laurie David (AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH). On the narrative side, Danielle has written screenplay adaptations of Jamaica Kincaids novel, LUCY, to star ZOE SALDANA (AVATAR, STAR TREK) as well as an excerpt of Nicholas Kristofs best selling book, HALF THE SKY, directed by MARISA TOMEI and LISA LEONI, for a PBS series.  Danielle is also adapting another Nicholas Kristof NY Times article into a full-length screenplay that she will direct titled USHA, set in the slums of India India which will star TANNISHTHA CHATTERJEE (BRICK LANE).  She is also in development on a film about wrongful imprisonment, being produced by JON GORDON (GOODWILL HUNTING). Danielle is currently writing the feature-length version of IN THE MORNING, titled FORTUNATE SONS, which she will direct in the spring of 2011 in London.   

In it's Summer 2005 issue, FILMMAKER MAGAZINE listed Danielle as being one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film.