David Bercovici-Artieda is an award-winning Latin-American filmmaker. His career started in TV at the age of six on the very popular children’s variety show Telejardin. By eight he started taking, developing and printing color and black & white photographs.
Passionate about storytelling and the power of the image, David majored in Film Studies earning a Bachelor in Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, and a Certificate of Excellence from Vancouver Film School.
He has honed his craft rising from an apprentice camera assistant up the ladder becoming a talented and sought after Cinematographer on hundreds of film and TV productions working alongside some of the very best Hollywood actors, directors and producers.
In July 2020 David officially earned his studio directing cap by acting as both Director and Cinematographer on the TV movie Pearl In The Mist. He produced and directed the award-winning short Boulevard written by Ildy Modrovich (Lucifer, Californication, CSI). Among various festival accolades and awards including a Golden Remi at the Huston Film Festival, 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 prestigious 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 (USA & Canada), the Canadian Society of Cinematographers and the Directors Guild of Canada.
His latest project is The Fast Runner written by award winning collaborator Michael Bruce Adams. This passion project comes at a time where antisemitism and xenophobia has seen unprecedented raise.
David hopes that this film will make a difference by promoting Holocaust education, respect and compassion.