Dannzel Escobar is a Filipino American writer, director and editor. His work often observes characters experiencing personal tension between their inner lives versus the conditions of their social or material environment. He is as heavily influenced by the film work of Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Bresson, and Olivier Assayas as he is by the film criticism of Michael Sicinski and Dan Sallitt. For him, cinema is a fluid form. Despite his work being narrative-based, the conception and overall motivation of his projects are often guided by lessons and teachings in experimental film. His aim is to further splice the elusive gap between narrative fiction and the avant-garde, illuminating the fluidity of the medium as an experiential enigma.