Daisy Zhou is a cinematographer and director based in Los Angeles. Growing up between Shanghai and Pennsylvania, the one constant in her life was making art & trying to grapple with the eclectic worlds she was experiencing. In 2023, she was announced as an rising artist by the ASC in August's issue American Cinematographer. In 2022, her narrative feature work premiered at Rotterdam International Film Festival and MoMa's New Director New Films showcase. That same year it was also nominated for a John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. Her 2017 work with Nike's Be True campaign is only the start of her relationship with films on dance, gender and sexuality, and identity. Her work for Nike's BeTrue campaign has been featured as the #1 spot on AdForum's best ads of the week Worldwide, Adage's Ad of the Week, and Business of Fashion's #2 top Fashion Films of the season, as well as countless other publications such as Times, Nylon, Essense, Adland, and Mic. In 2018, she was listed as AdWeek's Top 100 Creatives as one of the Top 15 Film and TV Directors raising the standard for storytelling. She was the only director in Cannes Young Director Award 2018 showcase to have two films shortlisted this year: Janelle Monae on Afrofuturism with Spotify, and Nike's Be True campaign with Leiomy Maldonaldo. In 2019, she finished work as a 2nd unit DOP for a Lions Gate narrative feature "Antebellum" starring Janelle Monae- and has since shot campaigns for Gillette, Comfort, Aston Martin, Renault, Citreon, Ford and Apple.