Short Films...
...David's black comedy, SIXTY CUPS OF COFFEE was runner up in the 2002 BBC New Filmmakers Award. It won the bronze award for Best Short Film at the Worldfest International Film Festival, Houston and was a Finalist in the USA Film Festival Awards and the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival in London. It won BEST SHORT FILM on the HYPtv Short Film Competition and has been screened at over thirty international film festivals and broadcast by BBC3, RAI and The Sundance Channel.
David's next short film, THE FALL OF SHUG McCRACKEN won the Best Comedy Award at the Santa Monica Film Festival 2003 and 'Best Short' and 'The Panavision Award' at the 2003 Deep Ellum Film Festival, USA.
In 2003 David
directed the BBC Scotland/Scottish Screen short,
ALL OVER BRAZIL which is now the
most successful ever Scottish Screen Short Film, having screened at Edinburgh,
Palm Springs, Stockholm, Florida, Sydney, New York, Rome, Berlin and at over
eighty International Film Festivals to wide acclaim.
In 2004 David wrote and directed LIFE IN THE RING, a short comedy with Brighton production company Online Creative for Sony UK. The High-Def film features Brett Fancy and Zoë Charles as a couple for whom 'life in the ring' is surprisingly tough.
David's most recent short is UK Film Council/Screen South-funded period drama, TUG, written by Heather Dixon and produced by Angelic Films.
TUG
has just won the Best Cinematography Award
at the 2007 Beverly Hills Film Festival
