Dan Mace
The numbers, so far
- 31M+YouTube subscribers in total, across his own channel and Beast Philanthropy
- 1B+views on his own channel and the Beast Philanthropy films he made
- 100+commercials, music videos and documentaries
- 6continents shot on
- 3×Cannes Lions Young Director Award — the first South African to win three
A message from Dan
Imakefilms.Commercials,documentaries,YouTubevideos,andsongsplayedonbricks.Whatevertheformat,thejobisthesame:tellastorythatmovespeople.Andnever,everbenormal.
Behind
the camera
100+ commercials, music videos and documentaries. Tusker, Vodacom, Checkers, Beast Philanthropy. Three Cannes Lions Young Director Awards.
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In front of
the camera
938K subscribers and 156 videos. Gang lords, prisons, Antarctica, a mountain hike with Casey Neistat and songs made of bricks.
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The story so far · scrub to play
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Chapter 01 · 2012 — 2015
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A kid from Cape Town with a camera, shooting adventure films across Angola, Namibia and Mozambique and uploading them to a brand-new YouTube channel.
The story so far
Chapter 01 · 2012 — 2015
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A kid from Cape Town with a camera, shooting adventure films across Angola, Namibia and Mozambique and uploading them to a brand-new YouTube channel.
Chapter 02 · 2015 — 2017
Dan the Director
Commercials for Tusker, Vodacom, Hunter's and Capitec. Three Cannes Lions Young Director Awards, the first South African to win three.
Chapter 03 · 2016 — 2018
The Casey years
A hike up a Cape Town mountain with Casey Neistat, the godfather of YouTube, ended with an offer: move to New York, help build 368 and make the daily vlog. He went.
Chapter 04 · 2019 — 2022
The Bru Show
Back home in Cape Town, the channel became a TV show: The Bru Show on Discovery. A truck turned into a camera, a hijacked cinema, a gang lord as a tour guide.
Chapter 05 · 2023 — 2025
Beast Philanthropy
Chief Creative Officer of MrBeast's charity channel. Antarctica, 30+ films and two Shorty Impact Awards.
As seen in
Awards
Cannes Lions
Young Director Award ×3
First South African to win three
African Cristal Festival
Grand Prix
Tusker — Here's to the Us
Shorty Awards, Los Angeles
Shorty Impact Award ×2
Beast Philanthropy, 2023
Ciclope Africa
Editing Craft
The Loeries
Bronze
Creative Circle
Ad of the Month
The playlists
The Casey years
Casey asked him to move to New York and help build 368. Dan became his creative partner, and Casey has been his mentor ever since.
The
instruments
Bricks, hair ties, bananas, a bird. Dan has remade hit songs out of whatever was lying around the house, recorded one sound at a time.
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process
The sound packs
sound offEight libraries of the atmospheres, stings, transitions and human sounds Dan builds his edits from.
Shop the sound packs ↗Directed for, worked with
Tusker, Vodacom, Checkers Sixty60, Hunter's, Capitec, IPL × Vivo, Play.co.za, Discovery, Great Big Story, Beast Philanthropy, Adobe, RØDE, Skillshare, Insta360