Everything You Need Is Right in Front of You (working title) follows Philadelphia’s trash and recycling chain, from curbside pickups to transfer stations, scrapyards, and sorting lines. Independent hauler Rob Gore offers a first vantage, his patched-together truck both tool and emblem of bottom-up ingenuity. As the film unfolds, other characters emerge—scale operators, scrap buyers, sorters on the line—each shaping what is saved, discarded, or sold. Rob’s mother Ruth appears briefly, her daycare echoing parallel forms of unseen labor. Together, these interconnected stories reveal the fragile choreography that sustains a city and resonates with global questions of waste and adaptation.


Director/Producer/DP: Daniel Traub

Cabaret Okinawa (working title) 
Filmed in Okinawa’s nightlife districts adjacent to American bases, the project observes bars, clubs, and music as spaces of contact between worlds. Without narration, the film listens to doors, stages, and soundscapes—where local life and empire overlap in nightly performance.

Director/Producer: Greg Girard/Daniel Traub
Director of Photography: Daniel Traub

Mufid

Nablus, West Bank

Filmed in 2011, Mufid follows a boy named Mufid and his circle of friends in the Palestinian city of Nablus. Ranging in age from 10 to 15, the boys hover between childhood games and a growing awareness of the political reality around them. The film traces their interactions at school, with families, and in the streets—offering an intimate window into Palestinian society through the eyes of youth at a pivotal moment. Now being completed for release.

Director / Producer / Cinematographer / Editor: Daniel Traub