David Leidy

David Leidy

writer, producer, director

David Leidy was born on Jul 02, 1991 in USA. David Leidy's big-screen debut came with Narco directed by David Leidy in 2011. David Leidy is known for Unidentified Objects directed by Juan Felipe Zuleta, Sarah Hay stars as Winona and Matthew Jeffers as Peter. David Leidy has got 48 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award David Leidy achieved is An Anti-Hero Production Genre Fest. The upcoming new movie David Leidy plays is Unidentified Objects which will be released on Jul 20, 2022.

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.

  • Birthday

    Jul 02, 1991
  • Place of Birth

    Muscatine, Iowa, USA

Known For

Awards

48 wins & 3 nominations

An Anti-Hero Production Genre Fest
2020
Best Fantasy Film
Winner - Best of Festival Award
Dark Orchid (2019)
Action on Film International Film Festival, USA
2019
Best Director - Short
Winner - Best Director
Platonic (2016)
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