David Leidy

Director, writer and producer David Leidy was born on 2 July 1991 in Muscatine, Iowa. He was raised by his mother, an artist who lived part of her adolescent life on a remote military base called Kwajalein Island, and businessman father. David is Eidetic Pictures Founder along with being a Founding Member of cinema society Delta Kappa Alpha (DeKA) where Spielberg, Hitchcock and Lucille Ball were members. Winner of the Best Director of the Year award at Action on Film MegaFest 2019 (highest honors among 16 interrelated festivals), Leidy also won Best Director at Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards among other awards and festivals. His short film Faded Love won Best Film Noir of the Year at Independent Shorts Awards (ISA) 2018/2019 which receives thousands of submissions per year. When he moved to Manhattan, New York in 2013, Leidy wrote many published articles as a Staff Writer for Washington Square News as well as hosted classic cinema screenings and events as DeKA Cinema Literacy and Professional Chair. Leidy graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature and a Creative Writing minor from NYU College of Arts and Sciences. After graduation, he audited a theater acting class taught by playwright Lyle Kessler (Orphans starring Alec Baldwin) where SAG and Actors Studio members would perform scenes from Broadway plays that Kessler would workshop. His films have been awarded, screened, reviewed and distributed domestically in the United States and globally in France, Japan, United Kingdom, Russia, India and Belgium. Aside from Best Director, he has won awards for Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay and Best Editor while his films have been awarded for Best Fantasy Film of the Year, Best Mystery, Best Crime Drama, Best Thriller and Best Cult Classic Film. Aside from these awards, they have been Finalists and Official Selections at such festivals as Gold Movie Awards, ARFF Berlin International Awards, Rome Independent Prisma Awards and Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition and have screened in such theaters as Cinemark 18 & XD, Brenden Theatres at Palms Hotel and Laemmle Noho 7. David Leidy has received such reviews for his films as a "disturbing and visually powerful short film" that "never wastes a second" by Independent Shorts Awards and Cult Critic Film Magazine respectively for Faded Love. His film Platonic was reviewed as being "the greatest experimental film I have ever seen [...] such an edge of your seat mystery that keeps you guessing at every turn [which] not many directors could bring to life" by Olympus Film Festival judges.