PRIMALSCREEN - Key Persons
A graduate in law from the University of Wales, David started in the film industry working on music promos with such names as ‘Take That' and ‘Bananarama'.
He became marketing manager for international sales company J&M Entertainment handling international releases for such films as "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?"; "The Road To Wellville" & "An American Werewolf In Paris".
He left J&M to attend the Media Film Business School as a producer with thriller feature film project -
A graduate of the Northern Film & Television School in Leeds and the Netherlands Film & Television Academy where he specialised in Production Design (he has worked on BAFTA and EMMY nominated docudramas, commercials, music videos and feature films) Harry's move into writing and directing has been equally successful. As director, his films have been shown in more than 10 0 international film festivals including OSCAR qualifying Rhode Island, Athens, USA, Huesca in Spain, Bermuda and LA Shorts and BAFTA qualifying Leeds, Tampere, London International Documentary Festival, Aesthetica, London Short Film Festival and Raindance. His films have been screened on every continent and in 2011 he was one of four film makers to be selected to screen his work (including "Maestro", "Invisible" and "Sweep") in the prestigious Film Makers' Section of the Sapporo Short Film Festival in Japan. He has been awarded a total of 22 prizes from festivals in the US, UK, Italy, Bosnia, Spain, Peru, Indonesia, Romania and India including three Audience Awards and two Grand Jury Prizes. In 2012 his short drama "Invisible" was Long Listed for a BAFTA for Best Short Film. His latest short is the genre-bending "Florian's Last Climb" about the disappearance of Edwardian mountaineer Florian von Liechtenstein. It was completed in 2018 and is currently screening on the festival circuit where it has picked up 7 awards including the Golden Maple for Best Documentary at the Jahorina Film Festival and Best Experimental Film at the Trujillo Independent Film Festival, Peru.
As a screenwriter he has adapted his own gang/coming-of-age novel, "Tribes" and was selected by the Film Council to attend the film mentoring course run by ‘Arista' to write the feature thriller "Stillwater". He is currently developing a feature project based on the theme and protagonist of the multi award winning "Invisible". This project reached the final selection of Oaxaca Film Festival's feature finacing competition "Make My Dream Film". His short script "Everything You Say I am, I'm Not" was also longlisted for the Bluecat Screenplay Competition run by Philip Seymour Hoffman's brother, Gordy Hoffman.