Asian Academy Creative Awards Grand Winner 2023 Best Documentary Program (One Off) “The Cleaning Company”
David is a creative producer and co-founder of Melbourne-based documentary production company Walking Fish Productions. He is drawn to character-led stories and absorbing narratives that challenge our assumptions about the world. Some of his recent credits as a producer include Asian Academy Creative Award winning and AACTA-nominated CLEAN (d. Lachlan McLeod, 2022), which premiered in competition at SXSW and closed the 70th Melbourne International Film Festival, and two films by Naomi Ball, including WHO I AM (2022), which premiered at Doc Edge and released on 10Play, and VICE doc SEARCHING FOR THE TASSIE TIGER (2021) which garnered more than 3.5M views online. David is currently producing two feature documentaries, including participatory comedy MOCKBUSTER, about an Adelaide filmmaker’s attempts to make a film for SHARKNADO production house The Asylum, and GUARDIANS OF THE RIVER, which explores a powerful grassroots movement to save a river in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea.
