Danielle Solzman
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| Danielle Solzman | |
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| File:Danielle Solzman at the 2019 Reeling Chicago Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.jpg Danielle Solzman at the 2019 Reeling Chicago Lesbian & Gay Film Festival | |
| Born | Louisville, Kentucky, United States |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Northern Kentucky University (B.A.) Webster University (M.A.) |
| 💼 Occupation | Film critic |
| 📆 Years active | 2013–present |
| 🌐 Website | http://www.solzyatthemovies.com |
Danielle Solzman is an American film critic, cultural commentator, and a screenwriter. As a transgender woman in the film industry, she is an advocate for increased diversity and representation in cinema.
Career[edit]
In 2015, Solzman began reviewing films and television on her website, Solzy at the Movies,[1] and her cultural commentary began to receive wider attention with an interview with Vice magazine in 2017 about Trans representation in film and television, and why it matters.[2] Solzman told Vice, "Representation is important for the one reason: so we don't get that common stereotype that trans women are just men in dresses, because we're not. [...] I only came out to myself two years ago, and it would have been a lot sooner if we had trans representation in the media."[2] Her commentary continued in interviews with a variety of news outlets, including The Boston Globe,[3] the Los Angeles Times,[4] The Associated Press,[5] the CBC,[6] and Entertainment Weekly.[7] In 2020, in response to Elliot Page announcing he is transgender, Solzman told Variety, "It's huge. He's the highest-profile actor that I can think of that we didn’t know before the fact," and that she wished a disclosure of a similar scale had happened during the 1990s.[8]
Solzman is a Rotten Tomatoes approved film critic.[9] She has previously written for Redbird Rants, Wildcat Blue Nation, and Hidden Remote/Flicksided.[1]
She is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Online Film Critics Society, the Online Film & Television Association, and the Online Association of Female Film Critics.[10]
In summer 2020, Solzman wrote, produced, directed, and starred in a short film, Pandemic Therapy.[11]
Education[edit]
Solzman earned a BA in Public Relations from Northern Kentucky University, and a MA in Media Communications from Webster University.[1]
Personal life[edit]
In 2017, Solzman wrote about her experience as an Orthodox Jew in Chicago.[12]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "About". Solzy At The Movies. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 D'Sa, Premila (November 7, 2017). "What Trans Folks Think About Trans Representation in Film and TV". Vice (magazine). Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ↑ Burr, Ty (July 12, 2018). "Who gets to play transgender roles?". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ↑ Anderson, Tre'vell (September 28, 2018). "Following Toronto Film Festival's media diversity initiative, critics say there is more work to be done". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ↑ Coyle, Jake (September 9, 2018). "Correction: Film-Toronto Film Festival-Critic Diversity". The Associated Press. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ↑ "For trans actors, getting cast isn't easy — especially up against Scarlett Johansson". CBC News. July 6, 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ↑ Romano, Nick (December 6, 2018). "Trans critics explain the problem with Girl and its Golden Globes nomination by Nick Romano". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ↑ "Elliot Page Disclosure Gives Trans Visibility 'Huge' Boost, Hollywood Insiders Say". Variety (magazine). December 1, 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ↑ "Danielle Solzman". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ↑ "Danielle Solzman". Online Association of Female Film Critics. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ↑ "Pandemic Therapy (2020) by Danielle Solzman". unseenfilms.net. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ↑ Solzman, Danielle (August 8, 2017). "I Don't Feel Safe in My Transgender Community–Because I'm Jewish". alma. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
External links[edit]
- Solzy at the Movies (Official web site)
- Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews by Danielle Solzman
- Metacritic Reviews by Danielle Solzman
- "Pandemic Therapy: A Film by Danielle Solzman". (Vimeo)
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- 1984 births
- American film critics
- Women film critics
- Writers from Chicago
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American screenwriters
- American women screenwriters
- Screenwriters from Illinois
- LGBT screenwriters
- LGBT writers from the United States
- Transgender and transsexual writers
- Transgender and transsexual Jews
- Transgender and transsexual women
