PRESS:
NY Times: ‘The Story Won’t Die’ Review: Art in a Time of Crisis
The Independent: Approaching Syria’s Turmoil Through Art
Vice: Planetarium Is a Short Film Celebrating the Radical Power of Women
IndieWire: 2016 Student Academy Award to AFI Conservatory Thesis Film by David Henry Gerson
Short of the Week: All These Voices by David Henry Gerson
Huffington Post: Ultra Violet: The Paris Hilton of the 60’s – On Fame and Mortality
Slamdance 2011: Interview with David Henry Gerson, Director of ‘Ultra Violet for Sixteen Minutes”
About
DAVID HENRY GERSON is a filmmaker whose work has won prizes from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Sundance Film Festival, and has been acquired into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NY.
He is the director of THE STORY WON’T DIE, produced by Academy Award winner Odessa Rae (NAVALNY), a feature documentary portrait of Syrian artists in exile. The film screened at Hot Docs, AFI Docs, Doc LA (Winner, Best Director), LACMA, Oslo Human Rights Forum and with the US Department of State.
He is a graduate of Columbia University and the American Film Institute, where he was the recipient of the AFI Richard P. Rodgers Award for Creative Excellence. His short film, ALL THESE VOICES, tells the story of a young Nazi soldier encountering an avant-garde theater-troupe of survivors celebrating the end of WWII. It won the Student Academy Award®.
David’s spec screenplay, ABOVE KINGS, was nominated to the Tracking Board Hit List and was a semifinalist for the Academy’s Nicholl Fellowship. His short film, AMERICAN STANDARD (“Dynamite!” – Abel Ferrara, “Truly excellent” – John Patrick Shanley), about a US Veteran returning home to his undocumented immigrant girlfriend aired on the American Forces Network at every US military base around the world. His film ULTRA VIOLET FOR SIXTEEN MINUTES ("Totally engaging" - Al Maysles), a documentary about the late Ultra Violet – Salvador Dali’s Mistress, Andy Warhol’s muse, and a born-again Mormon – screened at over a dozen festivals worldwide, the Pompidou Museum in Paris, and was acquired into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NY.
As an actor, David has worked in Film, TV, and on Stage with Doug Liman, David Mamet, James Lapine, and opposite Al Pacino. He trained at the British American Drama Academy in London, as well as in the Method and Meisner techniques in NY and LA. He produced and starred in Matthew Lessner's feature AUTOMATIC AT SEA and short film CHAPEL PERILOUS, which was a Vimeo Staff Pick and won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
CONTACT:
Managers: Exile Entertainment, Gary Ungar and Reed Baumgarten - rb@exilela.com
Agent: Verve Agency, Anne Sawyier - asawyier@vervetla.com
Commercial Representation: PICROW , Peter Lang - peter@picrow.com
Direct Contact: dhg@davidhenrygerson.com