DANIEL SLOTTJE

Founder and President

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 13-minute short was picked up for distribution by ALTER’S YouTube channel, and went viral across multiple platforms.

His feature screenplay of the same name, (admitted to the Sundance Lab), written and to be directed by Slottje, is in development in collaboration with producer Matthew R. Cooper, Indus Valley Media, and the Sundance Institute, with partial funding secured. 

In 2024, he Associate Produced the documentary ‘Nobu’ which screened at both the Telluride Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival, before being acquired by Vertical and distributed on Apple.

His debut feature film, The Trespassers, co-written with Esteban Garcia Vernaza and starring Elyfer Torres (Betty En NY), is fully funded and set to shoot in Los Angeles in January and February of 2026.

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.