Twamsan Danaan is a graduate of film production from the National Film Institute, Jos where he mastered in Cinematography and Directing. He started working in the film industry since his schooling days, working on student short films, documentaries, Television series and feature films developing himself as a skilled camera man and film director. After graduation, he worked as a camera operator on films like If I am President which was released in 2018, and as a camera assistant on Kar Ki Manta Da ni_2019. He has worked on numerous films and documentaries like the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) documentary film titled, Plateau on the move which was released in 2017. In 2019 on a feature film titled Rukayya which won the Best Indigenous film at the 2019 Zuma International Film festival. In 2021, he was 2nd Unit Director of Photography on Detour. He is an alumnus of the 2020 One World Media program dedicated to Journalism and documentary film making. His debut short documentary film Big Dreams: A tale of resilience_2022 won the award for best documentary film at the 2022 Kano Indigenous Language of Africa film market and Festival and has screened at the Silicon Valley African film festival and Vancouver black independent film festival in 2022.
In February 2025 his feature film directorial debut was part of the selected project for the yennenga post production at FESPACO.
His recent works include the short film "Evil Spirit, Get Out!" by Theo-Ziny Joel which won the Best Short Film (Jury Choice) award at the Lagos Fringe Festival 2024. It was also nominated for Best Experimental Film at the Abuja Film Festival and a feature length documentary film titled Dan Bature Kudawa (The Englishman of House Kudu) 2025 directed by Charles Francis Solomon. He concluded filming the debut feature film title A burial for Kulu Yandaki for director Theo-Ziny Joel in May. He is correctly in development for his second feature film.
