Daniel Sollinger

Artist Profile

Genres

Feature Film

Personal Description

Daniel Sollinger is a 1993 graduate of New York University Film School, and the producer of more than 350 commercials, music videos, and short films for clients including Pepsi, Warner Brothers Records, CBS, Sony, and Comedy Central. His work has won awards from New York University, The American Film Institute, The Accolade Awards and the American Motion Picture Society.

After working on numerous rap videos for artists such as Will Smith, LL Cool J, and A Tribe Called Quest, Daniel teamed up with Oscar and Emmy nominated director, Peter Spirer on "Rhyme & Reason," a feature film documentary on hip-hop culture. It was distributed by Miramax Films and played in 280 theaters nationwide, garnering $1.6 million at the Domestic Box office and a certified gold soundtrack. Later that year, Hollywood Reporter listed it as one of the year's top 15 most profitable films of the year.

Daniel also served as an Executive Producer on the feature film, "Six Ways to Sunday" directed by Adam Bernstein and starring Adrian Brody, Deborah Harry, and Isaac Hayes. It was released theatrically by Stratosphere Entertainment, and is now available in video stores.

Also available in video stores is the feature film, "Love Goggles" which Daniel produced and which won the Jury Prize at the 1999 Hollywood Black Film Festival. An urban love story, it is narrated by Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest and is directed by Tony Travis. Daniel's other feature credits include being the sole producer on "God's Forgotten House" starring N'Bushe Wright, and producing "Age of Kali" starring Taylor Nichols and directed by Rafal Zelinsky, as well as "The God's of Circumstance" starring John Schneider.

Daniel's line producing credits include the recently released, "Day Zero" starring Elijah Wood, Chris Klein, and Ginnifer Goodwin, "The Alphabet Killer" with Eliza Dushku, Cary Elwes, and Timothy Hutton, as well as Toronto Film Festival selection, "Day on Fire" starring Olympia Dukakis and Martin Donovan, and directed by Jay Anania. He also recently line produced the thriller, "In My Sleep" directed by Allen Wolf and the recently released, "Downtown: A Street Tale" starring three time Oscar nominee Genevieveve Bujold and Oscar nominee John Savage.

Daniel has also worked as a first AD on the independent films, "A Year And A Day," starring Fairuza Balk and "Everything's Jake" starring Ernie Hudson, and "Stanley Cuba."

Daniel is also a photographer whose work has been published in the New York Times, The Village Voice, and Time Out as well as a theatrical lighting designer with a dozen credits. He periodically teaches classes on producing and is a frequent guest lecturer. For six years, he edited and published the email newsletter, "The Producer's Newsletter" as well as organized monthly networking events for freelance producers working in film, theater and television.

He is married with a stepdaughter and goes surfing every chance he gets.

Special Skills

Writing, Acting, Directing, DPing, Editing