Biographie
Two of the most exciting directors to emerge on the Hollywood scene in the past decade, husband and wife filmmaker duo Bayou Bennett and Daniel Lir founded Dream Team Directors in 2007. With a limitless burst of positivity, energy, great ideas, and incredible vision, these two young, beautiful people conquered Hollywood, achieving in their first year in town what most directors would be happy to achieve in a lifetime.
Their 'feel good' creative vision was to combine imagination, humor, beauty and a desire to positively impact the world through their artistry, of which their stunning work is testimony. Their company motto, "Let our dream team manifest your dream," symbolizes the expansion and positive attention they provably win for their celebrity and high-profile brand clients and collaborators including none other than; MTV, Coldplay, Atlantic Records, Chrome Hearts, City Harvest, Whole Planet, and many more.
They have had the opportunity to collaborate, direct and produce with great talents including Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo, Golden Globe nominee Anthony Mackie, and the legendary Billy Idol, among others. Their talent has not gone unrewarded. They have recently won two Telly Awards as well as 15 other awards in national and international film festivals around the planet.
Before starting out in his career, Daniel states that he was very confused in terms of finding my life's goal and tried every form of visual art and design before taking his first film class at Art Center College of Design and falling in love with the medium of film. He states that he later developed and now has two sides to my film personality.
Daniel feels that artists are extremely important in our society. And especially in film.
When starting out in film school, Daniel confesses that his Professor in his first Film Class at Art Center literally criticized him to his greatest ability in front of the whole class on every film he wrote and directed. Daniel reports that the Professor felt his film's lack of violence, drama, conflict and traditional Hollywood structure was unbearable and too "European." On the last day of class, however, Daniel states that the Professor said that if anyone was going to succeed in the class it would be him. After that, Daniel states he received similar invalidating comments from every direction. People would tell him, "It's impossible," and ask, "how are you going to make money?" Daniel adds that even his mentor who became a very successful filmmaker who directed a film with Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor said to him, "are you sure you want to do this? It's so stressful!."
Yet Daniel said, he refused to give up. Daniel says that at every stage, he just kept going because there was nothing else he wanted to do in life.
Daniel says that ultimately, he wants to be remembered as having made a difference with his films with Bayou, having created world-wide positive change. He says that using humor, amazing characters, incredible cinematography and the most compelling stories to discourage war, he wants to help open people's eyes to poverty, illiteracy, global warming, and prejudice. and really inspire people to live better, try harder and reach their dreams.
