Daniel Castell

Daniel Castell is the Head of OTT/TV Projects Development at Fabula, Production company founded by the Academy Awards winners Juan De Dios Larraín and Pablo Larraín. He graduated as a journalist and Social Communicator from the Diego Portales University, and has a Master's degree in Creative Documentary Making from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. With more than 13 years of experience in the industry, he began his career in television as a journalist and reporter for CHV's central news show (Turner). Later he worked as a journalist in the BBC newsroom in London and as an audiovisual content editor in Canal 13 (Chile). Since 2012 he has been working in the independent production industry, mainly for factual films and television (scripted & unscripted), working in a variety of roles: from director of macro photography for a children's series on insects produced for the BBC, to researcher and AP for a factual series of Discovery. Between 2015 and 2022 he has worked for Fabula, first as a PD for various factual TV shows and since 2017 as a development producer and researcher, and executive producer on some projects. Since 2020 Daniel is Head of OTT/TV Projects Development. Daniel is also a lecturer at the Diego Portales University.