- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- In 2022, Slottje's The Rotting of Casey Culpepper was admitted to the 49th Telluride Film Festival and the Sundance Producers Lab.
The short film (programmed by Telluride) 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 before going on to win top prizes at multiple horror film festivals later that year. In 2023, the 14 minute short accrued over 125,000 views after being picked up by and posted on ALTER'S YouTube channel.
His feature screenplay of the same name, (admitted to the Sundance Lab), written and to be directed by Slottje, is in active development in collaboration with producer Matthew R. Cooper, 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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Objectively Good Management
- Winner of Best Short Film (The Rotting of Casey Culpepper) at Panic Fest 2022.
- Winner of Best Director (Daniel Slottje, for The Rotting of Casey Culpepper) at Panic Fest 2022.
- Film director Gregory Nava introduced 'The Rotting of Casey Culpepper' to a sold out audience at the 49th Telluride Film Festival, declaring it, the first horror film in history to be admitted to the Telluride Film Festival's Student Section.
- He had a severe endocrine disease in his adolescence which required him to self-administer twice daily, prescribed hormone injections. The experience would go on to inform the emotional reality of The Rotting of Casey Culpepper.
- Winner of Best Short Film Director (Daniel Slottje, for The Rotting of Casey Culpepper) at HorrOrigins 2022.
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