David has worked in the independent film sector for over 25 years, as a programmer, distributor and consultant. His career has included spells as Director of Cinema at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), where he acquired and released films by directors such as Abbas Kiarostami, Jia Zhangke and Roy Andersson and launched J-Horror in the UK with Ring; as Head of Content at the BFI overseeing the Institute’s distributed films; and as the first Coordinator of Lincolnshire Cinemas, which became a model for rural cinema provision.
To contact David, email: david@independentcinemaoffice.org.uk
Ten Favourite Films
- L’Atalante
Jean Vigo | France | 1934
Bookings Curzon Artificial Eye - A Canterbury Tale
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | UK | 1944
Bookings Park Circus - The Set-up
Robert Wise | USA | 1948 - L’Eclisse
Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy | 1962
Bookings Park Circus - Night of the Living Dead
George A Romero | USA | 1968
Bookings Specticast - The Colour of Pomegranates
Sergei Paradjanov | Soviet Union | 1969
- A Touch of Zen
King Hu | Taiwan | 1969
Bookings Eureka - Fear Eats the Soul
Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Germany | 1973
Bookings Arrow - La Vie de Jesus
Bruno Dumont | France | 1997
Bookings Eureka - One and a Two
Edward Yang | Taiwan | 2000
Guilty pleasure
- The Business
Nick Love | UK | 2005
Bookings Park Circus