Born in Quito, Ecuador, Daniel Davila later immigrated to the United States. He double majored in Economics and Film Studies from Claremont McKenna, and received a certificate in motion picture production from NYU before completing his undergraduate degree. He then attended USC’s Peter Stark Program. Additionally, he spent a year working in development for Adam Goodman at DreamWorks SKG. He later joined the faculty of Motion Pictures and Television at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and eventually co-founded Momentum Cinema, a feature development company whose first project, Harrison Montgomery starred Academy Award winner Martin Landau in the title roll. He also managed to obtain an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. From 2008-2009 Harrison Montgomery enjoyed festival success including screenings in competition at Deauville, HBO NY Latino Film Festival, Sao Paulo International Film festival (nominated best feature) Method Fest (winner Maverick Award) and SF Indie Fest (winner best feature). Off of this success, Davila co-founded Divisadero Pictures with his producing partner and sister Catherine Davila. Divisadero is dedicated to the creation of filmed entertainment that expresses the magic in the world around us.