- 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.
- He is a vegan and long-standing animal rights activist.
- Winner of Best Student Short Film (Daniel Slottje, for The Rotting of Casey Culpepper) at FilmQuest 2022.
- He grew up in upstate New York in a small business family, regularly helping out in his family's dollar store. The region would influence and inspire the fictional town of Athena Falls, NY, which appears across many of his stories.
- His Columbia MFA thesis film, The Rotting of Casey Culpepper was the first student horror film in history to be admitted to the Telluride Film Festival.
- Graduate of the Columbia University grad film program.
- His feature screenplay, The Rotting of Casey Culpepper was admitted to the Sundance Producers Lab in 2022, which only accepts five projects per year.
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