User:David Bercovici-Artieda

David Bercovici-Artieda is an award-winning Latin-American filmmaker whose career started in TV at the age of six on the very popular children’s variety show Telejardin in his Native Ecuador. By the time I turned eight David fell in love with photography and started taking, developing and printing color and black & white photographs under the guidance of his cousin opening. Passionate about storytelling and the power of the image, David majored in Film Studies earning a BFA at Concordia University in Montreal, and a Certificate of Excellence from Vancouver Film School. He has honed his craft rising from an apprentice to cinematographer and now directing on hundreds of film and TV productions working alongside some of the very best Hollywood actors, directors and producers. As a testimony of his artists skills David has been nominated twice at the LEO’s for Best Cinematography. In July 2020 during the height of the COVID pandemic David officially earned his studio directing cap by acting as both director and cinematographer on the TV movie Pearl In The Mist. This film has led to a succession of directing jobs. He produced and directed the award-winning short Boulevard. Among various festival accolades and awards, the film was notably selected for the December 2019 Content London’s - From Short to Series program. As committed children’s rights activist, David co-produced, lensed and co-edited Think Again, a documentary about the sexual exploitation of youth, for which he received The Beyond Borders Media Award. Between 1995 and 1997, he volunteered to work as Cinematographer, Interviewer, and Regional Production Manager for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors Of The Holocaust Visual History Foundation, documenting testimonies from Holocaust survivors now housed in the USC Shoah Foundation. David is a long-standing member of the Canadian Academy of Film and TV, the International Cinematographers Guild, the Canadian Society of Cinematographers and the Directors Guild of Canada. Lastly, he is noodling in the development of numerous TV projects and feature films hoping to give a voice to the underrepresented minorities in an industry he is passionate about.