Screenwriter and Filmmaker

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Working both as a feature writer-director, some of David's latest work includes; Player 5150 (Writer-Director) - Blue Harbor Ent., The Stand at Paxton County (Writer ESX Netflix), The Black Tulip (Writer, Snag Films), Mary, Life After Jesus, (Writer) Exploration Films,  Five Aces (Writer-Director) 20th Century Fox, Passenger 58 (Writer) ESX Warner Brothers, Puddy McFadden License to Golf (Writer-Director) Exit 44, The Longest Season (Writer-Director) Film Short.

Awards Include: The Black Tulip - Penn Center Freedom to Write Award. Afghanistan's Official Entry - Best Foreign Film - Academy Awards. Official Academy screenplay consideration. NY International Film Festival - Official Selection, Salento International Film Festival - Best Feature Film, Boston International Film Festival - Best Feature Film, Beverly Hills Film Festival - Golden Palm Grand Prize, Cinequest - Official Selection, International Digital - Screenwriter. Ft. Lauderdale Int. Film Festival - Writer-Director - Five Aces Spirit of Independent Filmmaking Award. The Palimpsest - 2025 - L.A. International Screenwriting Awards, Semi-Finalist - 2025 Santa Barbara International Screenwriting Awards - Official Selection - Martin Eden - Stage 32 Semifinalist - The Palimpsest - 2024 Palm Springs and Santa Barbara Finalist - The Violence of Wine. 2023 Scriptapalooza Quarter Finalist Saving MLK, 2023 Los Angeles International Screenwriting Awards - Saving MLK, 2023 Santa Barbara International Screenwriting Awards - Saving MLK, The Happy Man.

 

New works include an adaptation of Mary of Agreda's "The Mystical City of God" - Golf comedy "Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden" - St. Martin's Press psychological thriller, "What Lies in the Valley Below" and Viking Press, Pulitzer Nominated Richard Jessup's action-thriller, "Threat".

David spends his time partnering with rights holders, capturing, creating, and executing new Intellectual Property content, is a graduate of the University of Oregon, Arizona School of Business, American Conservatory Theater of San Francisco, and the Screenwriting University Master's Certificate Program.

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                                                                 David is represented by Tammy Hunt and Jamie Bradley at Sandstone Artists.

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