Daniel Lombroso is a director and journalist who spent the past nine years building the Oscar-nominated video departments at The New Yorker and The Atlantic. His debut feature, White Noise, based on his four years reporting inside the white power movement, was named one of 2020’s best documentaries by Vox and The Boston Globe, and one of the “25 films that explain America” by The Guardian. His upcoming feature film, Manhood, explores the booming penis enlargement industry as a raw, intimate lens on masculinity, body image, and male mental health.
Together, White Noise and Manhood form the foundation of Lombroso’s first book, supported by the New America Fellowship. After a decade embedded with neo-Nazis, incels, body hackers, and men remaking themselves through surgery and ideology, he’s ready to tell the wildest, most disturbing, and revealing stories—many for the first time in text. The book will be a gonzo-style memoir: surreal, darkly funny, and unflinchingly reported—a portrait of American manhood in collapse.
Lombroso’s work has premiered at Sundance, TIFF, and SXSW and has earned eight Vimeo Staff Picks, two National Magazine Award nominations, two Livingston Award nominations, an International Documentary Association nomination, and a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Selected Work
- Nina & Irena (2024): Lombroso’s award-winning Holocaust film for The New Yorker.
- Trailer: White Noise—Inside the Racist Right (2020): Lombroso’s debut feature film, produced by The Atlantic, offers an inside look at the alt-right.
- Journalist Daniel Lombroso & Producer Kerry Mack Launch Documentary—Focused Outerboro Films Focused On Stories From The Fringe: Deadline article announcing Lombroso’s second feature-length film on male body modification.