David Licata
David Licata wrote and directed 8 1/2x11 and Tango Octogenario, two award-winning short films. They have screened around the world at top tier film festivals, including New Directors/New Films (presented by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center), the Tribeca Film Festival and dozens more. 8½ x 11 can be seen on IFILM, where it has been seen by more than 25,000 viewers.
Mr. Licata is the proud author of numerous feature screenplays, predominantly quirky, bitter-sweet comedies . He has written for SportsFigures (ESPN), a television series that explores a variety of math and physics concepts in the world of sports and uses well-known athletes to help explain the relationships.
He is very proud to have been Second Unit Director of Photography on Roland Tec's We Pedal Uphill: Stories from the States.Not averse to print, Mr. Licata contributed 683 movie reviews for The Blockbuster Video Guide to Movies and Videos, and 140 movie reviews and 13 essays on film genres for Seen That, Now What?
Mr. Licata has been awarded grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and Dance Films Associations and was an artist-in-residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Jentel Artist Residency, Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain) and Centrum Arts and Creative Education (WA).
His documentary, A Life's Work, is currently in production. Visit his production company website: www.bloodorangefilms.com for more information on his work past, present, and future.
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