Filmmaker

David is an award-winning writer/director, with a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Film Directing from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied directing with Arthur Penn and film-editing with Spike Lee.

He also benefited from private studies with acting coach and author, Harold Guskin. His screenwriting skills were honed under the instruction of Yale Film and Media Studies Professor Marc Lapadula, and he attended classes in directing with Edward Dmytryk (USC) and Ted Post (UCLA).

David wrote and directed Angel Passing, starring Hume Cronyn, Teresa Wright, Elaine Tse and Calista Flockhart. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was highly acclaimed, going on to win several prestigious awards both in the United States and internationally.

Continuing to add to his Filmmaking catalog, David would go on to direct Mentor, starring Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner, Nighthawks). Mentor premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and has streamed on Turner Movie Classics. Since the essence of film is by its very nature a highly collaborative art form, David strives to create an environment where actors are encouraged to bring their creativity to the set. This approach has earned the actors in his films numerous awards.

In 2002, David produced & directed Songs for Sophia, featuring Placido Domingo, Bryn Terfel and Frederica VonStade. This documentary short pays homage to the fundraising event held at New York’s Waldorf Astoria for the Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) Foundation, an organization conducting research to find a cure for the rare disease that afflicts children.

In 2019 David was a Producer on the award winning film Saving Robin Williams.

Angel Passing premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998, and was accepted at the UCLA California Sundance Film Archive 2012.

Angel Passing  has screened on television nationwide on PBS, and on French television channels in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Canada 2001-Present.

A 35MM edition of Angel Passing has been accepted into the Yale Film Archives - 2023