تولد
October 18, 1973 in Columbus, Ohio, USA
محل تولد
New York City , New York , USA
Daniel Solomon is an award-winning writer/director who has worked in film and theatre. After graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Film Program in 1996 his feature script Broken Glass & Gravel was named a semi-finalist in the Writers Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition. He followed this up with in 1997 and 1998 with quarter finalist scripts For The Music and The Real Thing. In 2003 he was named one of the top 250 directors in Miramax/HBO's Project Greenlight 2002-2003 for his short film Stoplights. In 2006 Stoplights garnered the grand prize at the inaugural Next Generation Short Film Competition in Orlando, FL. Throughout 2005, Solomon immersed himself in the hill country of North Carolina and the world of stock car racing. The first product from this experience was Solomon's script Race City USA, and was named one of 30 finalists out of more than 3600 scripts in the 9th Annual Scriptapalooza International Screenwriting Competition. In 2007 Solomon made it to the final 200 directors out 17,000 in Steven Speilberg's On The Lot filmmaking competition. Solomon and his crew Psycho Film Binge won the Best of City Award for Jacksonville in the 2007 48 Hour Film Project with their film Easter Bunny Superhero. This film also took 7 out 15 overall awards including Best Costuming, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay and Audience Choice. As a result it was invited to the international stage of the competition, which took place at Cinequest in the Spring of 2007. In 2008 Solomon wrote and directed the short films Natalija and The Wire Trip and had their world premiere at the 6th Annual Jacksonville International Film Festival. The Wire Trip went on to win Audience Choice, Best Cinematography, Best Actor and Best Editing at the awards ceremony for the 2008 48 Hour Film Project. Solomon followed this up with his award winning short with The Assassin's Wife a short historical fiction piece focused on the last hours between Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife. This film took home the Jury Prize for Best Florida Produced Short at the 2009 Jacksonville International Film Festival and has was selected for the Jury Competition at Rutger Hauer's "I've Seen Films" International Film Festival in Milan, Italy. Solomon's seventh feature script Southern Gothic was a quarter-finalist in the 2009 Writer's Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition. Also in 2009 he completed two new feature scripts 2 Hours to Midnight based on a true story and The Orchardville Diaries, which was one of 10 finalists in the 2011 Jacksonville Film Festival. It was at this festival that Solomon partnered with DC based producer Khris Baxter to develop and co-write Homestretch a feature script about prison inmates who are reformed by rehabilitating retired racehorses. Over the course of the next two years Solomon wrote, directed and co-produced a dramedy web-series Exposure that premiered in the Spring of 2013. Most recently Solomon completed work on his newest feature script Playing House. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Daniel R. Solomon
