Daniel J. Snyder is an American television and film producer whose feature-length documentary, ''

Dreams on Spec ''Dreams on Spec'' is a 2007 American documentary film that profiles the struggles and triumphs of emerging Hollywood screenwriters. It was written and directed by Daniel J. Snyder, who learned first-hand about the screenwriter's travails in the ...

'', is the first documentary ever to look at Hollywood from the perspective of the much-maligned screenwriter. Snyder has served as show runner, director, producer, or writer on more than fifty non-fiction television programs, including the

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documentary series “Movies that Shook the World,” narrated by

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, and “Brilliant but Cancelled” a documentary about forgotten television gems for digital arts cable channel Trio. Prior to working in documentaries, Snyder was a producer for the

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news magazine program, NewsStand, and the Los Angeles Correspondent for

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, public radio’s business program. Daniel Snyder’s education in media and filmmaking began during high school when he landed a job at

Video Archives Video Archives was a video rental store located in Manhattan Beach, California, and later moved to Hermosa Beach, California, owned and managed by Lance Lawson and Rick Humbert. Filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary and Daniel Snyder worked t ...

, the now-famous video store in Manhattan Beach, California, where he worked as a video clerk alongside future filmmakers

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and

Roger Avary Roger Roberts Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian-American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on ''Pulp Fiction'', for which they won Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Acade ...

References

External links

Daniel Snyder's Production Company, Mercury Productions
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''Dreams on Specs official movie website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Snyder, Daniel J. Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American television producers