Growing up in Ohio, Danielle explored storytelling through poetry writing and making movies with her two sisters using her father’s home video camera. Danielle went on to major in Film Studies at Wesleyan University followed by a post- graduate fellowship to study cinematography at the German Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
Returning to New York City, Danielle immersed herself in the world of indie film
Growing up in Ohio, Danielle explored storytelling through poetry writing and making movies with her two sisters using her father’s home video camera. Danielle went on to major in Film Studies at Wesleyan University followed by a post- graduate fellowship to study cinematography at the German Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
Returning to New York City, Danielle immersed herself in the world of indie filmmaking, shooting doc and narrative shorts as a DP while working at a camera rental house. She eventually worked as assistant for Oscar-nominated Director of Photography, Matthew Libatique, on films such as BLACK SWAN. Eager to compliment her production experience, Danielle went on to work at Annapurna Pictures as a reader for CEO and Producer Megan Ellison and as the company’s Creative Researcher, working with directors including Bennett Miller, David O. Russell, Angela Robinson and Chris Cunningham as a researcher and story editor. Joining forces with Bridget Savage Cole nearly eight years ago, the two founded R.I.P.Dora, a women’s film collective, through which the narrative short, Serena, was created by an all-female production.
Bridget and Danielle's first feature, BLOW THE MAN DOWN, won Best Screenplay at Tribeca Film Festival 2019, made its international debut at the Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. Amazon Studios is distributing the film. The pair makes its television directing debut on the upcoming CBS All Access series adaptation of Stephen King’s THE STAND, starring James Marsden, Amber Heard, Alexander Skarsgård, Whoopi Goldberg and Greg Kinnear.
