Campbell Dalglish

Campbell Dalglish, award winning playwright, screenwriter and director, is Founding director of D'Arc Productions. His feature documentary, Savage Land (2021) Co-Executive Produced by Chris Eyre and Dr. Henrietta Mann, has won over seven Best Feature Documentary Awards internationally, including the 46th American Indian Film Festival. His short narrative film Road Kill (2015) was selected in over 30 film festivals world wide, winning a dozen awards. He has also produced segments for The New Morning Show, Faith and Value Media/Hallmark Channel (2007) five of them dealing with Native American themes on Indian Reservations. He co-produced with Invisible Dog Inc., an environmental TV pilot "Eco Action" (2000). His short narrative film "Dance of the Quantum Cats" (1996) won over a dozen international awards and was selected by CINE to represent USA at the 12th International Film Festival of Peace, Hiroshima, Japan. It was broadcast on PBS/CPTV as part of a series on emerging directors. Dalglish developed a technique of making films from the perspectives of people living in marginal communities by visiting, interviewing and conducting interactive improvisations with his subjects. The results have been "A Hard Way Out" (1992 Hartford gangs), "The Tunnel of Light " Homelessness at the Jericho Project/Grassroots Festival Award DCTV (1991), and "The Shooting Gallery" (1988 Bridgeport Prison). As a playwright on a Lynn Essler Fellowship at Yale School of Drama, Dalglish won several awards for the comedy "The List" and the opera "Blue Mass." Dalglish is a tenured professor in the film program at City College of New York. He is also a Film Commissioner for Suffolk County on Long Island, and President of The Plaza Media Arts Center in Patchogue, New York.