David Lister | |
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Nationality | South African |
Citizenship | South African |
Occupation | Film and Television Director |
Notable work | The Legend of the Hidden City The Last Leprechaun Soweto Green |
David Lister is a South African-born film and television director, now residing in Australia.
David Lister grew up on a farm in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. He trained as a painter and sculptor in Pretoria before being employed as a scene painter, set designer and head of the props department at the Performing Arts Council in Transvaal. After a brief period as a documentary cameraman at SABC TV, he departed to the UK and studied at the London Film School 1972–1974. He then returned to South Africa to work as a director in the film and television industry. [1]
Around 2005 he moved to Australia.
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