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David Peter Fox (Danish American: born 5 December 1964) is a Danish filmmaker and producer.

Fox has worked as a tv-producer at the Danish Filminstitutte and at different Danish broadcasting companies including the national tv stations TV2 and DR1 as a journalist and documentary filmmaker.

In 2001 he developed the project was VideoMarathon which was the world's first 48 film contest, where people had to shoot and edit a film within 48 hours. The project ran for 12 years in all of Scandinavia was supported by major international companies including Apple computer, JVC, Canon, Young, and Rubicam, DR1, TV Zulu, TV2 Norway, SVT2, Viasat, MTV Nordic, etc.

In 2012 developed the idea of letting prisoners participate in a documentary project inside the prison of Vridsløselille. The project later became a series on national tv name "Restaurant bag Tremmer" and soon was performed in both UK and America.

In September 2013, he developed the idea of Talking Statues in Copenhagen. Talking Statues has today become a global project which can be seen in London, New York, Berlin, Chicago, Parma, Dublin, Georgia, Vilnius. He got the groundbreaking idea to give a new identity to statues by letting them talk. The project is today featured in Times Square and Central Park.

He is currently working on Long Bridge Museum, which is a bridge in central Copenhagen, where he wants to transform the inside of the bridge into a museum to tell the story of life in Copenhagen for the last 300 years.