Dave Snyder

Dave majored in journalism at NYU, where his innate love of a well-told tale was honed into a skill for storytelling. After a short stint at The Wall Street Journal, he moved into documentaries and unscripted television, and has since served as show runner and/or produced, directed and written for many networks including HBO, NBC, Discovery Networks, Bravo, Comedy Central, Logo, A&E and HGTV. He's been lucky enough to work with some of the most talented people in the business, including Jon Kamen of @radical.media, director/producers Rory Kennedy and Liz Garbus, World of Wonder's Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, and A&E Indie's Molly Thompson. As crucial to his education has been the on-screen interviews he's conducted in award-winning documentaries for Bravo and Logo with directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Mike Nichols, Todd Haynes, John Cameron Mitchell and Milos Forman, and actors like Jodie Foster, Robert Duvall, Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Paul Giamatti, Uma Thurman, and John Travolta. From verité documentaries to TV news, from reality TV to narrative films, Dave embraces it all. He's worked on hits for Bravo such as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy yet also produced programs on foster children for HBO, Type 2 diabetes for NBC and a science series with inventor Dean Kamen for Discovery Networks. His narrative short film debut, yeah no definitely, stars Vincent Piazza (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire) and screened at festivals including Palm Springs, LA Shorts and Outfest (where it was named one of the 15 best shorts by indieWIRE). It's distributed by Picture This! Entertainment. His second short narrative film, Play Name, a drama with dialogue in English and Thai, was filmed in Bangkok with a cast and crew from the U.S., Thailand and Singapore. Finished in 2010, it has so far screened at festivals including the Seattle International Film Festival, Newfest and the Thai Short Film Festival.