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Daniel Snyder
Dreams on Spec
Interests
Pool, international travel, rollerblading, etc.
Books
Biographies like Truman, Lindbergh, and Once Upon a Distant War.
Movies
All-time favorites (in no particular order): Chinatown, Rear Window, Apocalypse Now, Close Encounters, My Darling Clementine, Sunrise, Sunset Boulevard, and many others.
Television
All-time favorites (in no particular order): The West Wing, the Larry Sanders Show, Entourage, the Twilight Zone, the Soprano's, Seinfeld, the Staircase, and many others.
About Me
To quote my bio ...
DANIEL SNYDER has served as show-runner, director, producer, or writer on more than fifty documentary, reality, clip, and news magazine programs over the last decade. His work includes AMC’s “Movies that Shook the World,” narrated by Jeff Goldblum, and Trio’s “Brilliant but Cancelled,” which Washington Post media critic Tom Shales called “a captivating 90-minute documentary.”
Daniel has also served as supervising producer on three multi-part documentary series and has founded his own production company, Mercury Productions, which has completed its first film, “Dreams on Spec..”
He's traveled the world for these gigs, from Japan's rocket-launching facility on a remote sub-tropical island in the country's hinterlands to the opera houses of Berlin for a look at their behind-the-scenes feuding to a small town in central California where he interviewed a confessed murderer about her execution-style slaying.
Dan’s education in filmmaking began during high school when he landed a job at Video Archives, the now-famous video store that employed future filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary, among others. In the years that Dan worked at the store, Quentin wrote True Romance, Natural Born Killers, and Reservoir Dogs but couldn’t find anyone to make those scripts into movies. It looked like Dan was the one with the bright future, as he worked toward a degree in Communications from UCLA, but we know how that turned out!
Goal
To run a production company that makes distinguished films and television programs -- and makes a profit doing so.
Professional Experience
Executive Producer
Mercury Productions
August 2000 - Present
I run my own non-fiction production company. With a producing partner, I create documentary, reality, and other non-fiction programming for television and theatrical distribution. We recently began
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