Films
Producer × Financier × Advisor
Dave creates, produces, finances, and supports films and companies led by top entertainment executives, Asian American filmmakers, and other underrepresented voices. He has been fortunate to work with some of the best in the industry and to support a growing slate of acclaimed films and filmmakers.
- DìDi (弟弟): Winner of Sundance Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic Competition and Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast
- EVERY DAY AFTER: Winner of Oscar®-qualified HollyShorts Award for Best Documentary
- FORGE: Winner of CAAMFest Award for Best Narrative Feature
- HOT WATER: Winner of SFFILM Award for Best Narrative Feature
- INHERITANCE: Winner of Slamdance Award for Best Documentary
Filmography
Dave works with a select group of primarily AAPI and underrepresented filmmakers developing their first or breakthrough features. He enjoys getting heavily involved in all creative aspects and loves producing films that entertain. He is partial to thrillers, action, and comedy.
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
Director/Screenwriter: Sean Wang
Producer: Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters, Valerie Bush, Sean Wang
Cast: Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua
Dave’s Role: Executive Producer
Accolades: Winner of Sundance Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic Competition and Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast.
The older sister of a neglected and traumatized cleft-affected boy raises him with her own small children. Her determination to care for her brother with unconditional love demonstrates the power of acceptance to heal even the deepest wounds.
Director: Elisa Gambino
Cinematographer/Editor: Neal Broffman
Producer: Elaine Jose Bobadilla
Dave’s Role: Executive Producer
Accolades: Winner of Best Documentary Short at HollyShorts, Albuquerque, San Jose, Silicon Valley Asian Pacific FilmFest, and Paris International film festivals. Oscar®-qualified.
In Miami, the resourceful Zhang siblings — Raymond and Coco — sell forged paintings to unsuspecting parties. As FBI Art Crimes agent Emily Lee investigates the Zhang siblings’ work, their lives converge to devastating effect in the Zhang family dim sum restaurant.
Director: Jing Ai Ng
Cinematographer/Editor: Leo Purman
Producer: Liz Daering-Glass, Gabrielle Cordero, Damian Bao
Dave’s Role: Executive Producer
Accolades: Winner of Best Narrative Award at CAAMFest. Premiered Sunday opening weekend at SXSW.
Mother and son hit the road west, stopping at diners, motels, and hot springs along the way.
Director: Ramzi Bashour
Screenwriter: Ramzi Bashour
Producers: Jesse Hope, Josh Peters, Max Walker-Silverman
Cast: Lubna Azabal, Dale Dickey, Daniel Zolghadri
Dave’s Role: Executive Producer
Accolades: Winner of SFFILM Audience Award for Best Narrative. Premiered Friday opening night at Sundance.
A feature documentary about a boy growing up in rural Appalachia in a home and community plagued by addiction and the chaos, loss, and powerful love that surrounds him.
Director: Amy Toensing, Matt Moyer
Producer: Amy Toensing, Matt Moyer
Dave’s Role: Executive Producer
Accolades: Winner of Slamdance Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary.
A year in the life of a singular family.
Director: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
Screenwriter: David Zellner
Producers: Lars Knudsen, Tyler Campellone, Nathan Zellner, David Zellner, George Rush, Jesse Eisenberg, David Harari
Cast: Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg, Christophe Zajac-Denek, Nathan Zellner
Dave’s Role: Executive Producer
Accolades: Premiered Friday opening night at Sundance.
A washed-up L.A. musician chases a career comeback in South Korea, only to discover his long-lost son is a rising K-pop contestant.
Director: Anderson .Paak
Screenwriter: Anderson .Paak, Khaila Amazan
Producers: Greg Silverman, Anderson .Paak, Jon Berg, Jaeson Ma, Jonnie Park
Cast: Anderson .Paak, Soul Rasheed, Jee Young Han, Jonnie “Dumbfoundead” Park, Yvette Nicole Brown
Dave’s Role: Special Thanks
Accolades: Premiered at TIFF and Tribeca.
Entertainment Companies
Dave learned everything he knows about the entertainment industry from some of the best. His corporate investments in the entertainment sector range from production, to distribution, to theatrical companies.
STAMPEDE VENTURES
An independent entertainment media company that wholly focuses on creating the next generation of blockbuster franchises through its diversified media divisions: film, TV, alternative, kids & family, and international.
Founders: Greg Silverman, Gideon Yu, Jaeson Ma
Example Projects: Hidden Pigeon, Space Cadet, Ordinary Angels, K-POPS!, Dead of Winter, Motor City
UTOPIA
A film and distribution company that specializes in independent and documentary cinema.
Founders: Robert Coppola Schwartzman, Cole Harper
Example Projects: Sick of Myself, Meet Me in the Bathroom, Shiva Baby, Omen, Facing Nolan, Red Rooms, Holy Spider, The Accidental Getaway Driver, Bunnylovr, Forge, Honeyjoon, Lucky Lu
ANTIGRAVITY ACADEMY
An Emmy-winning creative home for singular storytellers, with a unique emphasis on emerging talent.
Founder: Carlos López Estrada
Example Projects: DÌDI (弟弟), DED, Thirstygirl
TEG+
A music-driven production company built around high-profile music, creating narrative, experiential, and immersive work across Broadway, film, television, graphic novels, and emerging media.
Founder: Vivek J. Tiwary
Example Projects: Jagged Little Pill, Green Day’s American Idiot, Hamlet Hail to the Thief, Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story, Will Eisner: A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories