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David N. Donihue | |
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Born | David Nelson Donihue April 25, 1974 Spokane, Washington, United States |
Other names | David Donihue David N. Donihue |
Occupation(s) | film director, producer, screenwriter, playwright, composer, actor poet |
Years active | 1985 - present |
David N. Donihue (David Nelson Donihue, b. April 25, 1974) is an American writer, director and actor. His writing has been mentioned by IndieWire [1] Variety [2] and as a director he is frequently interview by the magazines including 1.4 and Movie Maker Magazine.[ citation needed ] As a writer/director, his feature films such as Parzania and The Weathered Underground have been internationally distributed his recent mini-movies for Spinnin/Universal, Armada and others are viewed by many. Writer Kelly Hughes wrote in The Huffington Post [3] "Donihue's work is not superficial. It shocks.. It excites... It demands social change"
Donihue was born in rural Eastern Washington, raised in Auburn, Washington. He started writing plays that were performed for 45 cents in his back yard and local parks when he was as young as seven. His first film was made when he was eleven, utilizing a rented video camera and two borrowed VCR's with stereo cables. His father was a pastor. His mother, Anita Corrine Donihue, was a special education teacher who later became a well known Christian Devotional author. [4] [5]
By his mid teens, Donihue was writing feature length plays. During these years, Donihue began to work graveyard shifts at a local college radio station, KGRG-FM, as an overnight DJ. [6]
There, he became obsessed with experimental music and film, and directed a series of student films. These included Anthony's Apocalypse and Inside Anthony's World. [7] During this era, at age 18, he wrote Hold My Hand & Tell Me I'm Not Insane, a comedy-drama about a young playwright whose scripts follow his life, yet later dictate it. The play was produced in Seattle with its premiere at the Scottish Rite Hall on Capitol Hill.
During his early twenties, Donihue wrote, directed, acted in and produced several independent plays within the northwest including Hey Baby Do Ya Wanna Come Back To My Place and Justify My Existence, and another pop psychology comedy Brain Aches And The Quest For Redemption Of A Telephone Psychic as well as the forty-minute short film Love Me Tender, Pay Me Well.
In 1999 Donihue began performing under the stage name Punko and released an indie album titled The Day Bob Went Electric.
The English language thriller, based on the true story of the Gujarat Riots of 2002, which was initially banned in India, incited protests and bomb threats, and later garnered praise from The New York Times, Variety, and Indiewire. [8] It was shown in New York as part of the Museum of Modern Arts' India Now film exhibition. [9] Donihue was nominated for Filmfare Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Story for Parzania. The film won the Screen Gem Award for Best Picture.[ citation needed ]
In 2010, Donihue's four and a half hour interactive choose-your-own adventure film The Weathered Underground was released by Indican starring Heroes Brea Grant. The comic book inspired picture went on to become a small cult classic and is now shown as part of curriculum at many of the world's best film schools. In 2017, Donihue directed another socially driven action comedy, The Bang Brokers. [10] In 2015 - 2017 Donihue wrote and directed several mini-movies for major brands and dance labels including SOLDIER, DON'T WAIT, GIMME SOME MORE, A LIFETIME AWAY and AGE OF INNOCENCE. [11]
His writing has been commented on by the Los Angeles Times , [12] and as a director he is frequently interview 1.4 and Movie Maker Magazine. [13]
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YEAR | PROJECT | CREDITS | TYPE | NOTES | |
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1985 | THE DESTRUCTION OF THOR | WRITER / DIRECTOR / ACTOR | SHORT FILM | (Age 11) | |
1985 | COMPUTER CHIP | WRITER / DIRECTOR / ACTOR | SHORT FILM | (Age 11) | |
1987 | RAMPAGE | WRITER / DIRECTOR / ACTOR | SHORT FILM | (Age 11) | |
1989 | GAMES | WRITER / DIRECTOR / ACTOR | STAGE | ||
1992 | ANTHONY'S APOCALYPSE | WRITER / DIRECTOR / ACTOR | SHORT | (SHORT FILM 20 MIN) | |
1993 | INSIDE ANTHONY'S WORLD | WRITER / DIRECTOR / ACTOR | SHORT | (SHORT FILM 22 MIN) | |
1994 | LOVE ME TENDER, PAY ME WELL | WRITER / DIRECTOR / ACTOR | SHORT FILM | (SHORT FILM 30 MIN) | |
1995 | WHEN YER 22 | WRITER / DIRECTOR / ACTOR | SHORT FILM | (60 MIN) | |
1995 | HOLD MY HAND & TELL ME I'M NOT INSANE | WRITER / DIRECTOR | PLAY | ||
1997 | HEY BABY, DO YA WANNA COME BACK TO MY PLACE & JUSTIFY MY EXISTENCE | WRITER / DIRECTOR / ACTOR | PLAY | ||
1998 | BRAIN ACHES & THE QUEST FOR REDEMPTION OF A TELEPHONE PSYCHIC | WRITER / DIRECTOR / ACTOR | PLAY | ||
1999 | THE GIRLS OF BIPOLAR DISORDER | WRITER / DIRECTOR | SHORT FILM | ||
1999 | PUNKO | TOUGH SKINS | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO | |
1999 | THE PINEHUST KIDS - ONCELER | WRITER / DIRECTOR | |||
1999 | PUNKO | THE DAY BOB WENT ELECTRIC | PERFORMER / WRITER | ALBUM | |
1999 | PUNKO | THE DAY BOB WENT ELECTRIC | PERFORMER / WRITER | STAGE / MULTIMEDIA SHOW | |
2000 | THE HUMANITY EXPERIMENT | WRITER / DIRECTOR | FEATURE FILM | ||
2000 | THE STANDARD - UNNAMED | DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO | ||
2000 | THE PINK SNOWFLAKES - GAS STATION IN THE SKY | DIRECTOR | |||
2002 | PUNKO - WHY DON'T WE | WRITER / DIRECTOR PERFORMER | MUSIC VIDEO | ||
2002 | PUNKO -THE ANTHEMS | WRITER / PERFORMER | ALBUM | Example | |
2002 | PUNKO | HOLY SON | WRITER / DIRECTOR / PERFORM | MUSIC VIDEO | |
2003 | HEAT WAVE | WRITER / DIRECTOR | SHORT FILM | 45 minutes | |
2003 | ANDREW SHERMAN VEHICLE - ROBOT VIDEO | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO | ||
2007 | PARZANIA | WRITER / PRODUCER | FEATURE FILM | ||
2007 | DOCUMENTARY - THE TREE OF LIFE | WRITER / EDITOR / ANIMATION | FEATURE FILM | ||
2007 | THE LASHES - THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD | DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO | ||
2007 | SIRENS SISTER - SHOULD'VE KNOWN | DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO | ||
2007 | ROCKET - COUGAR RUSH | DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO | ||
2007 | AARON MANINO | THE PRESENT MOMENT | DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO | |
2010 | THE WEATHERED UNDERGROUND | WRITER / DIRECTOR / ACTOR / COMPOSER | FEATURE FILM | 4+1⁄2-hour live action interactive break up saga inspired by the choose your own adventure books | |
2012 | CHASING DEATH WITH A PENCHANT FOR THE PRIMITIVE SALVATION | WRITER / DIRECTOR / ACTOR | PLAY | Would later become basis for Feature Film - The Bang Bang Brokers | |
2012 | MAR MAR - ICE CREAM | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO | ||
2012 | RICK SHAFFER - ONE MORE HEART ACHE | WRITER/ DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO | ||
2014 | MARC FORD - BLUE SKIES | WRITER / DIRECTOR / FX | MUSIC VIDEO | ||
2014 | THE BANG BANG BROKERS | WRITER / DIRECTOR / ACTOR | FEATURE FILM | ||
2014 | THE PRINCIPAL - SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO | ||
2014 | BIPOLAR JUNCTION - DOPING | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO - SHORT FILM | ||
2014 | SANDY | NORMAL LIFE | DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO | |
2014 | SANDY | BREAKING HIM OUT | DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO | |
2014 | ALEXI | KINGSTON BLUE | DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO | |
2015 | KRYSTA YOUNGS - XANAX: A LOVE SONG | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO - SHORT FILM | ||
2015 | THOMAS GOLD, HARRISON & HIIO - TAKE ME HOME | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO - SHORT FILM | ||
2015 | JOHN DAHLBACK - RAVEN | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO - SHORT FILM | ||
2015 | NIGHT SAFARI - DAYLIGHT TO MIDNIGHT | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO - SHORT FILM | ||
2015 | HOLD ON | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO - SHORT FILM | ||
2015 | JOHN DAHLBACK - ATLANTIS | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO - SHORT FILM | ||
2015 | ELEPHANTE ft RUMORS - I WANT YOU | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO - SHORT FILM | ||
2015 | MARK SIXMA & ANDREW RAYEL - CHASED | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MINI-MOVIE | ||
2016 | RUSLAN SIROTA - A LIFETIME AWAY | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MINI-MOVIE | ||
2016 | BLASTERJAXX AND BREATHE CAROLINA - SOLDIER | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MINI-MOVIE | ||
2016 | BOBBY PUMA - DEEPER THAN LOVE | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MINI-MOVIE | ||
2016 | KO:YU - DON'T WAIT | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MINI-MOVIE | ||
2016 | RICK SHAFFER - GOIMNG DOWN SLOW | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MINI-MOVIE | ||
2015 | ELEPHANTE ft RUMORS - I WANT YOU | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO - SHORT FILM | ||
2016 | KONIH - GIMME SOME MORE | WRITER / DIRECTOR | MINI-MOVIE | ||
2017 | KSI - TRANSFORMING | DIRECTOR | MUSIC VIDEO | SHORT FILM |
Donihue lives in Los Angeles, California. He continues to direct a large number of music videos and short form media.
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