Daniel Gordon is a British documentary film director best known for his acclaimed, double BAFTA-winning Hillsborough (2016), which is considered the definitive account of the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster. Daniel’s previous films include a series of ground-breaking documentaries from North Korea including, Crossing the Line (2006), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He is best known for his sporting documentaries like 9.79* (2012) about the disgraced Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson who was stripped of his Olympic gold medal, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and his documentary series of 34 short films, I Scored a Goal in the Fifa World Cup Final (2010), about the only 34 men alive today to have scored a goal in a World Cup Final. Most recently he directed George Best: All by Himself which premiered at the 2016 60th BFI London Film Festival, and The Australian Dream (2019), about the Adam Goodes race scandal in Australian sport. That film had its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival and screened internationally. Gordon received his first APSA nomination for The Australian Dream.
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