Dan Solomon(1973-2015)
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
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 Spielberg'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.