He boasts a portfolio of creative work across the panoply of Film and Television industries: format development, sponsorship idents, promos, drama, documentary, television commercials and feature films. He has shot sequences for the 2012 Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies and installations at Tate Modern and on cinema, broadcast and online platforms in the UK, Europe and internationally. As a director, David has made over 60 commercials for brands including: 21st Century Fox, New Line Cinema, Disney, T Mobile, Virgin, KFC, TOMY and McDonalds.
As an educator, David has taught at many leading film schools and centres for the performing arts. His pedagogical practice includes, but is not limited to, the history of cinema, media cultures, production,cinematography, mise-en-scène and directing. David’s recent collaboration with Amnesty International, a six-part omnibus of investigative films in the ‘Protecting the Human’ series, was distributed at human rights
festivals around the world and was screened at the U.S. Congress. This broke the story internationally and prompted a presidential address by George W. Bush on waterboarding and human rights abuses by governmental agencies.