Daniel Froot
daniel@chronotope-films.com

Daniel Froot is a New York-based writer and producer who has been working in independent film since 2014. Daniel began his career in production on The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015), the HBO documentary miniseries about the New York real estate heir and accused murderer, and on Experimenter (2015), Michael Almereyda’s biographical drama starring Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder, based on social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s radical behavior experiments at Yale University in 1961.In the area of film, his most recent screenplay, Septillion to One, made the 2015 Hollywood Blacklist, and sold to OddLot Entertainment in one of the most competitive spec sales of the year. His previous screenplays won first place in the Final Draft Big Break Competition and placed in the top 30 for the Nicholl Fellowship. He is currently writing Operation Ivy League, a true crime story about a drug cartel based in a college fraternity, for Kevin McCormick at Langley Park Entertainment (Gangster Squad, Traffic).

Daniel began working at Chronotope Films in 2017 and has assisted on the development and production of a variety of narrative media projects in the virtual and augmented reality space, including Hamlet: Thy Father’s Spirit (2019), objects in mirror AR closer than they appear (2018), and The Interpretation of Dreams (2018). His responsibilities have included collaboration on story development, casting, project management, hiring technical staff and consultants, budgeting, production scheduling, post-production coordination, editing, and public relations.

Daniel’s completed teleplays include Fair is Foul, a serialized reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth set in the Philadelphia Police Department; Exits and Entrances, a family drama centering on two female playwrights, a case of plagiarism, and the unlikely artistic collaboration that results; and Pencil Men, a fictional retelling of the collision between technology and gambling against the backdrop of horse racing in 1960s New York.

Daniel graduated from Wesleyan University in 2016 and holds a BA with high honors in Wesleyan’s College of Film and the Moving Image.