David was born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). His family moved to South Africa, which he left in his teens, disenchanted with the apartheid regime and seeking new adventures. David has acted, worked in the fashion industry, in publishing and during a brief return to South Africa, ran a business designing and making furniture. Film has always been his passion, and he has a particular curiosity for queer cinema and art film. Always the rebel, he empathises with Jean Genet’s identification with the marginalised, and how, stripping all external stimuli and freedoms stimulates one’s awareness and imagination whilst numbing fear of change.