WHAT WEEKLY

Confessions of a Mad Filmmaker

23 June 2010

★ David Warfield

David Warfield
David Warfield

David Warfield

Contributor David Warfield is a filmmaker and screenwriter (WGAW). He is currently planning an indie feature film for production in 2011, to be shot in the Baltimore area. His script Linewatch was produced in 2007, and released by Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2008. Other screenwriting credits include Kill Me Again, (also producer), Private Investigations, and Kiss of a Killer. David wrote and directed the indie thriller Ocean Park which received awards in 2002 including Best Director and Best Feature from the RAD Digital Film Festival and the New York Independent Film Festival. With a background in music videos and independent features, David served as Head of Production at Propaganda Films in Hollywood, where he worked with notable directors such as David Lynch, John Dahl, David Fincher and Dom Sena. In addition to writing feature scripts, he has written and directed shows for the History Channel, published short fiction and essays, and has taught screenwriting at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He served as an advisor for the Sundance Institute Eastern European Screenwriters Lab in Prague, Czech Republic.

David teaches production and screenwriting classes at Loyola University in Maryland, and Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. He provides story and screenplay consulting through his website, www.storysolver.com. He’s an AFI producing alumni, and has a master’s degree in screenwriting from UCLA.

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