Daniel Lombroso
New America Fellow, 2026
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, supported by New America, explores the booming penis enlargement industry as a raw, intimate lens on masculinity, body image, and male mental health. In tandem, Lombroso will use the Fellowship to start developing his first nonfiction book about American masculinity. After a decade embedded with neo-Nazis, incels, body hackers, and men remaking themselves through surgery and ideology, he’s ready to tell his wildest, most disturbing, and revealing stories. 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.