Daniel Edelstyn is a British documentary filmmaker, producer, and musician whose works frequently intertwine personal heritage with critiques of economic and institutional power structures. 

Edelstyn gained recognition for his debut feature How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire (2012), a documentary tracing his Jewish-Ukrainian family roots to a historic distillery amid post-Soviet economic upheaval, blending archival footage, family interviews, and entrepreneurial revival efforts. 

In collaboration with artist Hilary Powell, he co-directed Bank Job (2021), chronicling their grassroots campaign to acquire shares in a predatory lender and redistribute funds to indebted community members in London's Walthamstow, highlighting systemic debt traps following the 2008 financial crisis.

As a musician, Edelstyn fronts The Orchestra of Cardboard, a project pairing his songwriting with multi-instrumentalist Nick Graham Smith's arrangements to produce folk-infused albums addressing social themes.

More recently, Edelstyn and Powell have spearheaded the Power Station initiative, a community-led effort to solarize local streets and schools in Walthamstow as a prototype for decentralized renewable energy production amid the UK's energy challenges.