An accomplished filmmaker, Daniel Beals has directed several successful short films, spec pilots, and promotional material for companies including Defy Media, Ubisoft, Atom.com, and Strike.tv. As a writer, his brand is HARNESSING YOUR FIRE; often to overcome adversity (either with a broken glass-covered baseball bat across the jaw or sharp wit. Frequently both.)

He’s written several feature scripts that have placed highly in significant industry competitions. The dramatic thriller, The Crimson Pool (currently in development), has placed prominently in numerous competitions and was endorsed by Coverfly. His adventure drama, The Empress of DäGar reached the semifinals at the Page International Screenwriting Awards.

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Daniel launched into the creative world when he was hired to write the raunchy horror-comedy pilot Sexy Nightmare Slayers for Ariescope Pictures and horror director Adam H. Green. He then cut his directing teeth in the comedy world, winning Best Director award for the dark comedy, Mediating Kidnapper (starring Jim O’Heir). Daniel’s natural ease with comedy arose from his years working in production on series like The Office, Parks & Recreation, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, absorbing knowledge from the best comedic writers, directors, and actors in the industry. As a lover of action and sci-fi, this experience primed him for transitioning into multiple genres as a storyteller.   

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As a director, Daniel has shepherded many genre projects. One of his favorites was Defy Media’s promotional comedy sketch, Watch Dogs 2 In Real Life, which he directed for Ubisoft’s big 2016 video game release. The video, made with popular YouTube content creators ‘The Warp Zone', has accumulated 6 million+ views since its debut. 

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Okay. Let's get into it. 

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Daniel’s a white guy. He knows it, you know it, everyone knows it. He also knows that it is just as important for the white community to see POC in leadership and starring roles as it is for young children of color to see that. He encourages all storytellers like himself to embrace, celebrate, staff, and more accurately represent worlds that are populated by people who don’t look or love like them, because acknowledging our shared humanity makes us all limitless. 

Under the Bealsebub brand, Daniel is focused on creating shared spaces that reflect the world he's always seen. He hopes that his work will help expand his audience's collective consciousness (through genre-agnostic, pulse-pounding stories and IP) by burning away the virus of fear and tribalism. Together, we are limitless and luminous. The heroes in our favorite stories never harness their fire to punch down. They do it to lift up. That's what Bealsebub means. And that's what it'll mean when you see: