He was born in Havana, Cuba, on December 31st 1946. In 1975 he made his debut with Libertad para Luis Corvalan (Freedom for Luis Corvalan) dedicated to the Chilean political journalist. In 1985, after 5 documentary films made between 1976 and 1982, he returned to the fiction film production with Jibaro which got two awards at the Bogotá Festival. His film Alicia en el pueblo de Maravillas (Alicia in the wonder village) got the Peace Prize at the Berlin Festival in 1991. At the Freiburg Festival he got awarded first for his short film Quiereme y veras (Ask me and you will see) in 1994 and then for the full-length film Hacerseelsueco (Becoming Swedish) in 2001. His last film is of 2012; Daniel died on the 16th of September 2013 in Havana, when he was 64 years old.
