DAVID PERGOLINI is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA.
His career began as a documentarian in Tanzania, where he captured the first-ever summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro by a quad-amputee—a story that earned an ESPY Award in 2013. He returned to Kilimanjaro in 2022 to direct his first feature documentary, Courage Rising, which followed eight burn survivors to the summit.
David’s background as an editor includes award-winning work across shorts and features, including Souls of Totality, which premiered at Tribeca in 2018 and won top prizes at HollyShorts, Raindance, and the Hiroshima International Film Festival. His feature Only premiered at Tribeca in 2019 and later reached #2 on Netflix’s U.S. Top 10.
In 2022, his scripted podcast Dark Woods became the #1 Fiction Podcast on iTunes and was picked up by Universal TV and Wolf Entertainment for television adaptation.
David is currently the lead writer at Wolf Games, where he develops serialized murder-mysteries for interactive crime games.