Not on my watch

David Kline is an award winning filmmaker with experience as a scriptwriter, producer, director and editor. He started his media career as a runner and medical adviser with BBC Films before training as a journalist and switching to television, working as a Researcher then progressing to Assistant Producer with BBC Sport.
He arrived in script development via a fortuitous, personal link to US actor, director and producer Laurence Fishburne whom he helped with the development of a screen adaptation of a well-known novella (Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist') for Warner Brothers. David has also worked as a script reader and reporter for several UK film agencies including Script Factory, Scottish Screen and Northern Ireland Screen.

David co-wrote the feature film screenplay, 'Housejackers,' which was optioned by Poli Productions and produced by Northern Ireland Screen in March 2023. The film is complete and awaiting sale and distribution.

In addition, David has written a number of spec feature film screenplays in a range of genres from horror to social drama, thriller to family drama as well as a spec six-part Television Drama series, ‘Prey Drive,’ a dark, suburban thriller.

David has written numerous short film scripts and produced several, including 'Game Over' co-written with Director Adam Jenkins, featuring Blake Harrison, Gemma Whelan and Naomi Battrick. The film was a winner of the Performance Film and Media Insurance Short Film Competition 2019 (sponsored by Hiscox), Winner at the Ealing Film Festival 2020 (Horror / suspense) and received multiple Official Selections at film festivals, including the LA Shorts International Film Festival 2018 and the London Short Film Festival 2019. David also wrote, produced, directed and edited the short film 'On the Edge,' which was winner of Best Drama (Diamond Award) at the European Independent Film Award (EIFA) summer 2018.