who am i?

My name is David. I was born in Puerto Rico, and raised in Texas. I went to art school at RISD. I worked in advertising. I lived in Paris. I worked in anime. I went to grad school at UCLA, where my thesis, “HowDoISayThis.com” won the 2007 award for Best Student Site at SXSW Interactive. Now I work for MTV New Media, where I worked on jackassworld, was a producer on Craig Brewer’s music web series “$5 Cover” and directed my own horror-movie-for-the-net “Savage County” – to be released sometime in 2010.

Personally, I care about a lot of things. Professionally, I care about how storytelling and technology interact. That means a lot of putting video on screens of different sizes, which is exciting and fun. It means a little bit of reimagining story structure, which is more exciting and more fun. Occasionally, it means doing both of the above in concert with platforms and interfaces that are new to the human experience, which combines great excitement with confusion, and can go in the direction of fun or scary, depending.

I roll this all up under “filmmaking,” because – why not – and because I know so many filmmakers working on both the content and platform sides. Whatever it all ads up to – I’ve got a great gig and it’s an exciting time to be doing what I do.

Why are you here? I don’t know. But, thanks for coming.