24-year-old filmmaker. At 16, directed and starred in the 154-minute art film parody “Season Two”, and at 18, directed and starred in the still photograph composed feature “Doe”. Currently in post-production on a colorful and disturbing Russ Meyer-inspired horror film-cum-teen melodrama, “Broken Heart(s)”. Recently completed a 22-minute collaboration with Joe Wakeman, the audacious silent/musical/comedy “Red Room”, which won the 2010 Maverick Movie Award for Best Director, a California Film Award, and was an Official Selection of the International Film Festival Ireland. Directed the short films “An Evening of One Acts”, “Pierre in Peril”, “A Girl A Smoke”, “Evil Night Together”, “Naomi in the Living Room” (from the Christopher Durang one-act), sibling-shorts “A Few Choice Words” and “Sweet Nothings”, “The Loudest Silent Film”, “Hot Mess”, “Synecdoche Musical”, and MIX Film Festival Official Selection “Boy Smoking Girl Dancing” among others. In pre-production on the Andrew Biss adaptations “Indigenous Peoples” and “Public Relations” and the epic “Season One”.
Red Room (Trailer) from David J. White on Vimeo.
