David Leidy

Director and Screenwriter

Burbank, California

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November 2019

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About David

David Leidy was born on July 2, 1991 in Muscatine, Iowa. While earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature and Creative Writing minor from New York University (NYU), he became one of the founding members of the reinstated cinema society Delta Kappa Alpha (DeKA): an organization whose members include George Lucas, Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg. During this time, Leidy also wrote many published articles as a staff writer for Washington Square News.  

In Los Angeles, David Leidy was mentored by Emmy® winner of the College Television Awards Justin Lerner and interned for Mike Medavoy at Phoenix Pictures (production company of Shutter Island (2010). He then wrote, directed and produced Atonia (2013) with cinematography by SXSW® nominated Tobias Deml under Prodigium Pictures (production company of Gaming Wall St (2022) and Monster Party (2018). This led to David being requested by another film director to be a screenwriter on Paradise (2014) starring Cortney Palm of Sushi Girl (2012).  

David Leidy's short film Faded Love (2015) won Best Film Noir of the Year at the 2018-2019 Annual Awards of Independent Shorts Awards (ISA). His film Platonic (2016) won for Best Director of the Year at AOF MegaFest (highest honors among 16 interrelated festivals) of the Action on Film International Film Festival and acquired limited theatrical distribution from Fourwalled in 2019.

Gender:
Male

Height:
6' 3"

Weight:
175

Eyes:
Green

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Dark Orchid (2019)
Film by Eidetic Pictures (Fantasy and Thriller) Director/Screenwriter A woman and her cousin trudge through a mystical forest of giant trees searching for a medicinal plant until their day ends up the only thing uprooted.
Platonic (2015 - 2019)
Film by Eidetic Pictures and Fourwalled (theatrical distribution) (Thriller) Director/Screenwriter After a dream about a murder investigation, a professor discovers a pregnant woman in her house. When she enters, details about the crime resurface
Faded Love (2014 - 2018)
Film by Eidetic Pictures (Thriller) Director/Screenwriter A reporter repulsed by older men evades her psychiatrist who plans to reenact a disturbing scenario from her childhood to cure her.
Paradise (2014)
Film by Richard Alexander (Sci-Fi and Thriller) Screenwriter A reclusive ex-spy is told by her former agency that it has found a source which could lead to the terrorist group who murdered her daughter and husband years ago.
Atonia (2013)
Film by Eidetic Pictures and Prodigium Pictures (Thriller) Director/Screenwriter A rigid white collar worker has vivid nightmares of herself paralyzed in bed while a new employee from work torments her.