Daniel Sackheim is an American Film & Television director and producer best known for his highly acclaimed series as HBO’s True Detective Season 3, Game of Thrones, and FX’s The Americans.
He received a 2017 Emmy nomination for directing the Ozark episode Tonight We Improvise, which is a category he won in '94 for an episode of NYPD Blue.
Some of Sackheim’s other directorial credits include the Apple TV+ series Servant, Better Call Saul, The Leftovers, The Man in the High Castle, as well as multiple episodes of Ozark, The Walking Dead, and HBO’s critically acclaimed Lovecraft Country.
In addition to his television work, Sackheim directed the Sony feature film The Glass House, starring Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, and Stellan Skarsgard, and produced The X-Files: Fight the Future for 20th Century Fox.
Sackheim is a co-founder and fellow HBO alum Tony To (Earth to the Moon, Band of Brothers, The Pacific) of Bedrock Entertainment, which produces prestige content for streamers and premium cable platforms.
Sackheim’s photography, which occupies a space dominated by shadows, endeavors to explore a kind of Urban Narrative.
This attraction to the dark and ambiguous stems from his love of Film Noir and the heightened reality embodied by this film language. Like noir, his photography aims to access the subconscious and a world of omnipresent solitude and alienation. It is a pleasure to feature an interview with one of the most influential, gifted photographers & Film directors in Lens Magazine!
Leila Antakly: Hello Daniel, Thank you for taking the time to have this interview. Tell us about your greatest
