THE LAST BATH won Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Art Direction at the Academy Awards of Portugal. It won the Golden Globe for Best Actress, the Screen Actors GDA Newcomer Award, and over 30 festival prizes.
GYPSY premiered at Locarno and SXSW. It won over 30 accolades.
L'ARC-en-CIEL premiered at Fantasporto and won Best Actress at Mostra in Coimbra.
HEIKO was a Slamdance and IndieLisboa nominee. It won Best Short at the CPH:MIX, Denmark.
David started his career acting as an assistant to Turner-winner Douglas Gordon, Palme d'Or winner Manoel de Oliveira, and worked at the BBC.
David also mentors and lectures in filmmaking across the globe.
Complete filmography
2021 MAKING OF "The Last Bath" (editorial)
2021 CONTAGION (segment)
2020 THE LAST BATH
2017 KARMA
2015 FAREWELL
2013 GYPSY
2010 SIR KEN ADAM’S BERLINALE BIRTHDAY STATEMENT
2009 EDEN
2009 ARCH IN THE SKY
2008 HEIKO
2007 PHOTOMOTION
2007 THE BALCONY
2005 MAQUETTE
2004 LE DÉJEUNER RÉPÉTER
2001 LE TEMPS (co-directed)
2000 SUPERGLUE
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