Daniel Finkelman
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Daniel Finkelman is a director, producer and founder of Sparks Next, a boutique production
house based in New York and COO of the startup screenwriter-driven production company,
Kinolime.
Daniel has produced and directed a variety of feature length films, shorts, music videos, documentaries, and commercials.
He has received industry wide recognition in the Best First Film category at the Independent Spirit Awards for producing Menashe, which premiered at the Sundance and Berlinale film festivals in 2017, and for The Vigil, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2019. Daniel is the Lead Producer on The Performance, starring Jeremy Piven and Robert Carlyle, a feature length film based on the work of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller; which premiered at the Rome and Palm Springs International Film Festivals and is slated for release in 2024.
He is also producing the upcoming films "Tin Soldier", a thriller starring Robert De Niro, Jamie Foxx, and Scott Eastwood and "Our House is On Fire", a love story filmed entirely in Ukraine, and set against the dramatic backdrop of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Daniel's newest project sees him as creator, director and producer of "One Day in October", a limited series recounting four true survival stories from the October 7th attack in Israel.
Daniel has produced and directed a variety of feature length films, shorts, music videos, documentaries, and commercials.
He has received industry wide recognition in the Best First Film category at the Independent Spirit Awards for producing Menashe, which premiered at the Sundance and Berlinale film festivals in 2017, and for The Vigil, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2019. Daniel is the Lead Producer on The Performance, starring Jeremy Piven and Robert Carlyle, a feature length film based on the work of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller; which premiered at the Rome and Palm Springs International Film Festivals and is slated for release in 2024.
He is also producing the upcoming films "Tin Soldier", a thriller starring Robert De Niro, Jamie Foxx, and Scott Eastwood and "Our House is On Fire", a love story filmed entirely in Ukraine, and set against the dramatic backdrop of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Daniel's newest project sees him as creator, director and producer of "One Day in October", a limited series recounting four true survival stories from the October 7th attack in Israel.
