Daniel Ziegler was born on August 15, 1995 in Silver Spring, Maryland as Daniel Raymond Rose. He has been an avid film fan since before he could speak and began making his own after discovering the world behind the camera. In 2012, after many years of making home movies, he and several fellow filmmakers founded the production company Black Box Films LLC in order to create more professional works. He would later make the leap from shorts to features with Timespace (2014), a low budget science fiction drama that he wrote and directed. Daniel studied Film at Hofstra University in New York and resides in Phoenix, Arizona.