Daniel Slottje
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Slottje is currently in post-production on his debut feature film as a co-writer and director, The Trespassers. The film, produced by Nicholas Payne Santos and co-written by Esteban Garcia Vernaza, was shot on 16mm film and received Panavision’s prestigious New Filmmakers Program grant.
The film stars Elyfer Torres (Ugly Betty in Mexico’s remake, Betty En NY), and Gustavo Gomez (The Walking Dead Seasons 9-11). Prior to directing The Trespassers, Slottje worked on the personal horror project, The Rotting of Casey Culpepper, which in 2022, was admitted to both the 49th Telluride Film Festival and the Sundance Producers Lab.
The short film version (admitted to the ’22 Telluride Film Festival) served as Slottje's Columbia University MFA thesis, and was the first horror film in history to be admitted to the festival's prestigious 'Filmmakers of Tomorrow, Student Prints' section, where it was introduced to a sold out crowd by Academy Award Nominee Gregory Nava as "the scariest film he’d ever seen." The short went on to win top prizes at multiple horror film festivals later that year, and was eventually picked up for distribution by ALTER’S YouTube channel.
Slottje’s feature length adaptation of The Rotting of Casey Culpepper (admitted to the ’22 Sundance Producers Lab, written and to be directed by Slottje), is in active development in collaboration with OGM, Indus Valley Media, and the Sundance Institute, with partial funding secured.
He is represented by Objectively Good Media and Management, and is the founder and president of Visual Articulation, an entertainment company with a dedicated focus on exploring the most provocative subjects of our present and past through genre-based filmmaking, located out of Los Angeles.
The film stars Elyfer Torres (Ugly Betty in Mexico’s remake, Betty En NY), and Gustavo Gomez (The Walking Dead Seasons 9-11). Prior to directing The Trespassers, Slottje worked on the personal horror project, The Rotting of Casey Culpepper, which in 2022, was admitted to both the 49th Telluride Film Festival and the Sundance Producers Lab.
The short film version (admitted to the ’22 Telluride Film Festival) served as Slottje's Columbia University MFA thesis, and was the first horror film in history to be admitted to the festival's prestigious 'Filmmakers of Tomorrow, Student Prints' section, where it was introduced to a sold out crowd by Academy Award Nominee Gregory Nava as "the scariest film he’d ever seen." The short went on to win top prizes at multiple horror film festivals later that year, and was eventually picked up for distribution by ALTER’S YouTube channel.
Slottje’s feature length adaptation of The Rotting of Casey Culpepper (admitted to the ’22 Sundance Producers Lab, written and to be directed by Slottje), is in active development in collaboration with OGM, Indus Valley Media, and the Sundance Institute, with partial funding secured.
He is represented by Objectively Good Media and Management, and is the founder and president of Visual Articulation, an entertainment company with a dedicated focus on exploring the most provocative subjects of our present and past through genre-based filmmaking, located out of Los Angeles.
