Watch With Jen & Friends: Episode 37 - Danielle Solzman

Fresh, knowledgeable, and funny, film critic Danielle Solzman remembers not only the first movie she saw on the big screen - which was The Land Before Time - but also recalls falling in love with film while watching Jurassic Park and Star Wars in the mid-1990s.

A Kentucky native, Danielle initially relocated to Chicago to study improv and sketch comedy and although instead, she transitioned to becoming a film critic, she has never given up her love of comedy and tries her best to inject humor in film reviews when possible. Since 2018, she has traveled across the U.S. and Canada to cover Sundance, South By Southwest, Tribeca, and The Toronto International Film Festival.

With quarantine keeping her stuck at home, she shifted from the feature film screenplay she'd been working on to write a short film instead. The first project that Danielle has made since she came out as transgender in 2015, Pandemic Therapy, which she not only wrote but also directed and starred in, made its online debut on September 15.

In this freewheeling discussion, Danielle and Jen discuss her love of classic film books, plan an epic day of movies at Chicago's Music Box Theatre, discuss the epiphanies you get in the shower, lament the technical woes that come with screener trouble, and more.

Originally Posted on Patreon (9/20/20) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41822548

Theme Music: Solo Acoustic Guitar by Jason Shaw, Free Music Archive