@DanielRands

writer/director 😇 directing fiction @NFTSFilmTV 🏫 raps @WRSTWRLDPRBLMS 🎤

 London
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Joined November 2011
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My short film 👇🏽 FOUR DOOR DANTE is now available to watch @omeletocom lmk what you think xxx
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Tomorrow night 👀 @d_whitehouse
Channel 5
@channel5_tv3 Dec 2025
A bloodied stranger begs for help at Lenny's door... then calmly asks for an autograph once he recognises who he's with 👀 Play for Today: A Knock at the Door. Watch | Stream on 5 #playfortoday #LoganMersh #AlanDavies #scene
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Written by @d_whitehouse directed by me - this Thurs at 9pm x
Channel 5
@channel5_tv30 Nov 2025
A knock at the door is just the beginning. What follows is a dark, twisted night 😰 Would you open the door? 🫣 Play for Today: A Knock at the Door. Watch | Stream on 5 #playfortoday #NikkiAmukaBird #LoganMersh #AlanDavies #scene
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I made this! It’s on next week thurs 4th December at 9pm on @channel5_tv 🤓
TV Zone
@tvukzone22 Nov 2025
Alan Davies leads the cast of Channel 5's latest #PlayForToday drama #AKnockAtTheDoor. More details: tvzoneuk.com/post/pr-playfor…

A Knock At The Door: Play For Today | Preview (5)

On an affluent Hampstead street, Lenny Bray, a once-beloved comedian, and his wife Maggie are drawn into a nightmare when Ben, a bloodied and frantic young man, collapses at their doorstep. Against...

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David Whitehouse@d_whitehouse13 Nov 2025
I wrote one of the episodes for the newly relaunched Play For Today. This is about that: independent.co.uk/arts-enter…

Play for Today: The revival hoping to save British TV from a class crisis

‘Play for Today’ one-off films were a seminal moment in television in the Seventies and Eighties, writes Hannah J Davies. Decades later, Channel 5 is bringing them back, and aiming to diversify...

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A KNOCK AT THE DOOR coming soon to your tellies x
Vertigo Films@vertigofilmuk28 Oct 2025
So excited to share PLAY FOR TODAY coming to @channel5_tv soon 🥳
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had the absolute pleasure of directing David’s taut, sharp writing for your screens - make sure to tune in 📺
David Whitehouse@d_whitehouse18 Aug 2025
I’ve written a bit of TV. It’s called Intruder and stars Alan Davies and Nikki Amuka-Bird. It’ll be on later in the year. televisual.com/news/5-reveal…

5 reveals first four Play for Today commissions - Televisual

Following the previously announced pilot, 5 has announced today the first four commissions and casting that will form its new Play for Today slate.

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Vertigo Films@vertigofilmuk18 Aug 2025
Thrilled to have worked with such great writers & directors, Simon Warne & Lydia Marchant (Never Too Late) and David Whitehouse (Intruder). Sara Harrak (Never Too Late) and Daniel Rands (Intruder). Play for Today coming soon to Channel 5.
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got to direct these guys 🫶🏽
Vertigo Films@vertigofilmuk18 Aug 2025
Intruder — a real-time thriller. Once a national treasure, Lenny (Alan Davies) hides from scandal until a bleeding stranger arrives with buried secrets. Across one night, he & wife Maggie (Nikki Amuka-Bird) face guilt, truth & the past that won’t stay silent.
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Was a pleasure to direct Intruder for @vertigofilmuk as my first piece of telly
Vertigo Films@vertigofilmuk18 Aug 2025
Thrilled to be partnering with Channel 5 on the revival of Play for Today, supporting talent from lower-income backgrounds. From the darkly comic Never Too Late to the tense thriller Intruder, we’re excited to bring bold, original stories to the screen. theguardian.com/media/2025/a…

Channel 5 revives BBC’s Play for Today to ‘help shape future of British drama’

Series aims to follow original in tackling ‘thornier issues’, and to support talent from lower-income backgrounds

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Had a nice chat with @WeAreDN about Margin 🥹🫶🏽
Directors Notes@WeAreDN27 Sep 2024
Dir. @danielrands discusses playing with perspectives by placing a handheld camera in the thick of his uncomfortable classroom set battleground drama short 'Margin' where racial tensions & societal issues ignite a contentious power struggle directorsnotes.com/2024/09/2…
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Blessed to premiere my short film Margin online with @UKfullyfocused - watch and share pls 🥹 youtu.be/4zYCGNHZxqM?si=VgH3…

Margin (2024) Drama Short Film | MYM

In an after-school, last-chance, catch-up class, 16 year-old studen...

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Tony Todd@TonyTodd5423 Jul 2024
Morning! Find your Joy! It can be done!
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amy@amtattersall21 Feb 2024
also, this slaps. this slaps harder than you can possibly imagine
National Film and Television School@NFTSFilmTV20 Feb 2024
NFTS Graduate Showcase 2024 First Look: Fiction Tapeworm Trapped in a cycle of debt, years as witness and accessory to cold-blooded exploitation have hardened Worm. A final gamble for freedom allows her a chance to regain her humanity and autonomy over her fate.
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Samson@_Barrow21 Feb 2024
Pleasant. Cute. Tame. This film that I wrote with @DanielRands is none of those things 🪱 @NFTSFilmTV
National Film and Television School@NFTSFilmTV20 Feb 2024
NFTS Graduate Showcase 2024 First Look: Fiction Tapeworm Trapped in a cycle of debt, years as witness and accessory to cold-blooded exploitation have hardened Worm. A final gamble for freedom allows her a chance to regain her humanity and autonomy over her fate.
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🪱 the trailer for my @NFTSFilmTV grad film TAPEWORM is out now 🪱 I hope you enjoy it 😈
National Film and Television School@NFTSFilmTV20 Feb 2024
NFTS Graduate Showcase 2024 First Look: Fiction Tapeworm Trapped in a cycle of debt, years as witness and accessory to cold-blooded exploitation have hardened Worm. A final gamble for freedom allows her a chance to regain her humanity and autonomy over her fate.
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Jon Wardle@jonwardle12 Dec 2023
Congrats @TriciaTuttle on your appointment as Director of the Berlinale. We will really miss you @NFTSFilmTV. But what a job! You will be brilliant. hollywoodreporter.com/movies…

Berlin Film Festival Names Tricia Tuttle New Director

The newly-appointed festival head will take over from co-directors Carlo Chatrian and Mariëtte Rissenbeek, who are stepping down after the upcoming 2024 Berlinale.

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uh oh it’s a Sean Kingston - Take You There kinda day again
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loved going to this fest ☺️
Spirit of Independence Film Festival@SoIfilmfestival8 Jun 2023
Throwback Thursday📆 In our 2021 event we opened with the fantastic mockumentary ‘South African Spook Hunter’👻 Hilariously funny, creepy and a great example of what can be achieved on a small budget, it went on to win our ‘It cost How Much?’ And rightfully so❤️🏆
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Michael Demetriou@TreehouseBDESTR15 May 2023
❤️‍🔥watchHELLSPAWNnow❤️‍🔥@ShortoftheWeek shortoftheweek.com/2023/05/1…
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