Daniel Andreas Sager was born in Berlin in 1985 and grew up in Moscow. After his A-Level he studied social anthropology and philosophy in Leipzig. In the cinema “Prager Frühling” he headed the Short Film Festival "Young Cinema" for young filmmakers, until he began studying directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. With the grant from the State of Baden-Württemberg, for students with special talent, he studied one year at the film school UCINE in Buenos Aires. 2013 he has participated with a scholarship from the Filmakademie BW at the Script Development Masterclass Docu-Village at Haifa Filmfestival, Israel. He will graduate in March 2015. He works as a free writer, director, journalist and cinematographer, living in Berlin.