Daniel Sollinger

Daniel Sollinger (born May 3, 1967) is an American producer. He is known for producing films such as Clean, Six Ways to Sunday, Immortality or Bust, The Alphabet Killer, Girls Against Boys, In My Sleep, Without Men, L.A. Slasher, Rhyme and Reason and others.

Daniel Sollinger was born in Cumberland, Maryland in the United States.

He was educated at Eastside High School in Taylors, South Carolina and started filmmaking in High School by attending the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, South Carolina.

Sollinger is a graduate of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Sollinger started his career making music videos with artists such as EPMD, A Tribe Called Quest, Redman, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince and LL Cool J.

He has produced commercials and short films for clients such as Pepsi, Warner Bros. Records, CBS, Comedy Central, and Sony.

He produced and directed the documentary film Immortality or Bust. Immortality or Bust won the Breakout Award at the 2019 Raw Science Film Festival and Best Biohacking Awareness Documentary at the GeekFest Toronto 2021. Sollinger produced the documentary film Rhyme & Reason. Rhyme and Reason was in the 35th spot of the 70 Greatest Music Documentaries of All Time by Rolling Stone.

Sollinger won the Award of Excellence for the 2007 independent drama film God's Forgotten House in the feature film category.

He was the 2023 nominee for the KCET documentary series Artbound episode Chinatown Punk Wars which he produced at the Los Angeles Emmy Awards in the Entertainment programming category.[ 11] [ 12] [ 13] Sollinger won the 2024 Los Angeles Press Club Awards for the documentary.[ 14] [ 15]

He worked on the film In My Sleep as a line producer, which was the recipient of several awards at different film festivals such as Audience Award at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, Best Feature Film at the Omaha Film Festival, Best Narrative Film at the Las Vegas Film Festival,the Audience Award at the Kansas City Film Festival and the Gold Kahuna Award at the Honolulu Film Festival. The film he produced L.A. Slasher earned him an Outstanding producer award at the 2014 Zed Film Festival

Sollinger has also won awards from New York University, The American Film Institute and The American Motion Picture Society

He is a member of the Producers Guild of America and a Directors Guild of America production manager.

Sollinger has been married to Frances Saunders since 2003.