Daniel Zlotin

Daniel Zlotin (Ukrainian: Даніель Злотін, born June 8, 1984, in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a German director, producer, cameraman and film editor of Ukrainian origin living in Cologne. Since 2002 he has created more than 600 music videos for music artists. In 2007 Zlotin co-founded StreetCinema production company, which he co-owned until its closure in 2018.

Career Daniel Zlotin was born in 1984 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He attended the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management in Kyiv (Межрегиональная академия управления персоналом). At the same time he pursued a musical career as a rapper. In early 2003 he completed his first music video for the song he had recorded with three other rappers. Zlotin presented this video to regional TV stations, some of which included it in their program. Upon receiving positive feedback and requests from a number of Ukrainian hip-hop musicians, he decided to focus on the production of music videos.

In 2007, together with Christian Schmitz and Malic Bargiel, Zlotin founded the media production company, StreetCinema, in Cologne, with which he subsequently produced commercials, image films and music videos. The company mostly specialized in the production of music videos, whereby they were responsible for the whole production process, from the conception through the technical implementation to post-production. Initially, StreetCinema mainly shot music videos for Eko Fresh and members of its German Dream label such as Farid Bang, Capkekz, SDiddy, Summer Cem and Manuellsen. In 2011 Zlotin began to shoot for pop musicians such as Revolverheld, Menowin Fröhlich, Tom Gaebel, Maite Kelly and Willi Herren. Later, while working on the video Massaka Kokain 2 of Massiv, he collaborated for the first time with Kollegah, the rapper contracted by the Selfmade Records. Zlotin continued to collaborate with the Düsseldorf label, for video creations by Favorite, Karate Andi and the 257ers, followed by a series of productions with Xatar and SSIO of Alles oder Nix Records.

According to Zlotin, the years 2013 and 2014 represented the boom phase of StreetCinema. Six to seven projects per month were realized during this time. After one year, it has achieved nearly 120 million views. StreetCinema was dissolved with the approval of all three shareholders in the spring of 2018. Since then, Zlotin has been working under his own brand.

Filmography Music videos (selection) ReleaseArtistsSongJobs 2011 Eko Fresh Köln Kalk Ehrenmord Director and editor 2012 Kollegah und Farid Bang Dynamit Director and editor 2013 Bushido Leben und Tod des Kenneth Glöckler Director and editor 2013 Eko Fresh Quotentürke Director and editor 2014 Kollegah Du bist Boss Director 2015 Alligatoah Lass liegen Director and editor 2016 Farid Bang 100 Bars Director and editor 2016 Kollegah Pharao Director and editor 2016 Kollegah und MoTrip Einer von Millionen Director and editor 2017 Kurdo Ya Salam Director 2017 RedOne, Daddy Yankee und French Montana Boom Boom Director, DOP and editor 2017 Trailerpark Sterben kannst du überall Director, DOP and editor 2018 RedOne, Adelina und NowUnited One World Director, DOP and editor 2018 Sun Diego Rock me Amadeus Director, DOP and editor

Documentations ReleaseTitelDescription Jobs 2016 Kollegahs Trip to Ramallah Documentation about Palestine for the Youtube-channel Bosshaft TV Editor

Short films ReleaseTitleActorsJobs 2007 Non ci stai! (Da steckste nich drin!) Daniele Garraffo, Birte Alexander, Piet Klocke and Lisa Loch Editor 2007 Topfschlagen Daniel Zlotin, Ernst-Gerd Klucken and Karina Klucken Editor 2008 Nachruf Natascha Manthe and Christoph Türkay Editor 2009 0,1 Promille Mirjam Druschel and Christoph Türkay Editor 2009 Das Geburtstagsgeschenk Eko Fresh, Anne Wiesenberg, Uwe Helling and Turcuen Aslan Director, DOP and editor 2015 Ghettoveteran Nikolai Will, Bernd Wöllmer, Mario Hoelsken and Milad Klein Co-producer and DOP

Awards Due to his collaboration on a variety of German hip-hop albums Zlotin has received thirteen gold records. Thus he was awarded for the albums Jung, brutal, gutaussehend 2 of Kollegah and Farid Bang, King and Imperator of Kollegah, Killa of Farid Bang, Sonny Black of Bushido, Musik ist keine Lösung of Alligatoah and Abstand of KC rebel as well as the singles Trauerfeierleid and Du bist schön of Alligatoah, Bleib in der Schule of Trailerpark, Ya Salam by Kurdo and iPhone 17 and Fata Morgana by KC Rebel.