David Leidy

Director, writer and producer David Leidy is an award winning visual storyteller (Best Director Winner at Action on Film MegaFest and Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards) who dives deep into mystical realms to bring forth metamorphosis. He is Eidetic Pictures and Palm Vine Media Founder along with being a Founding Member of cinema society Delta Kappa Alpha (DeKA) where Spielberg, Hitchcock and Lucille Ball were members. After receiving coverage from Fox News for premiering his feature documentary Bound in Saint Louis, he gave feedback for such projects as Last Voyage of Demeter and Dandelion Wine to executive producers Mike Medavoy at Phoenix Pictures (Shutter Island) and Kevin Iwashina and Ross Dinerstein at Preferred Content (Jiro Dreams of Sushi). During this period, he was an assistant for Emmy award winning Best Director Justin Lerner (Automatic Hate, Official Selection at SXSW) who would soon become his mentor. After many published articles as a Staff Writer for Washington Square News and hosting classic cinema screenings and events as DeKA Cinema Literacy and Professional Chair, Leidy graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature and Creative Writing minor from NYU College of Arts and Science. He then audited a theater acting class taught by playwright Lyle Kessler (Orphans starring Alec Baldwin) where SAG and Actors Studio members would perform scenes from Broadway plays that Kessler would workshop. His films have been awarded, screened, reviewed and distributed domestically in the United States and globally in France, Japan, United Kingdom, Russia, India and Belgium. Aside from Best Director, he has won awards for Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay and Best Editor while his films have been awarded for Best Film Noir of the Year, Best Mystery, Best Crime Drama, Best Thriller and Best Cult Classic Film. Aside from these awards, they have been Finalists and Official Selections at such festivals as Gold Movie Awards, ARFF Berlin International Awards, Rome Independent Prisma Awards and Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition and have screened in such theaters as Cinemark 18 & XD, Brenden Theatres at Palms Hotel and Laemmle Noho 7. His films have received such reviews as a "disturbing and visually powerful short film" that "never wastes a second" by Independent Shorts Awards and Cult Critic Film Magazine and "the greatest experimental film I have ever seen [...] such an edge of your seat mystery that keeps you guessing at every turn [which] not many directors could bring to life" by Olympus Film Festival judges.