Educated in South Africa and at the London School of Economics, David has lived and practiced law in London, Beverly Hills, California and Johannesburg, South Africa.

 

He has lectured in the City of London, left teaching to become involved full time in the film industry as an executive producer, working in London and South Africa as a partner in Film Africa International. There he negotiated deals, the legal documentation of film agreements, the raising of finance and corporate structuring. His main responsibilities were dealing with producers, banks, and distributors in the international and US markets.

 

David has set up a $75 million film fund with the Canadian/American company Alliance/Atlantis, to raising the financing for the film Shooting Dogs for BBC, to Executive Producing Ask The Dust, a feature film produced in Cape Town for some $ 20 million starring Selma Hayek and Colin Farrel. Tom Cruise was the producer. Paramount released the film in 2006.

 

In addition to being the Executive Producer on The Perfect Wave, an independently financed feature film being produced in Cape Town, South Africa, Bali and Java, David is also Executive Producing Jet Jungle, a studio feature film in development ith Reveelations Entertainment (Morgan Freeman's company).