Ignoring the stigma of being an Asian-American and an artist, David abandoned pursuing a BS in Mechanical Engineering at Rice University and instead became an English and Sociology major.  Realizing that those majors did not lead necessarily to a secure lifestyle, he decided to become a filmmaker so that if he had to suffer, he could say that he was suffering for his art.  He attended the graduate production program at the University of Southern California with an emphasis on cinematography, directing, and editing.

As an adjunct faculty member of LAFSC, David teaches sound editing and design, the neglected child of filmmaking, hoping that those under his tutelage might realize that good films need good sound.  When he’s not at LAFSC, he and his wife oversee a film production company, three kids, two cats, and two hamsters.  Add in a small men’s group from his church, Bel-Air Presbyterian, a co-ed Bible study, one begins to appreciate what Christ meant as having “life, and have it abundantly.”

His graduate student thesis film “Tunnel Vision” was a co-winner of the Director’s Guild of America Student Filmmaking Award in 1998 and co-starred Sara Paxton before she became well-known as the lead in “Darcy’s Wild Life” and “Aquamarine”.

His passions are the emerging Christian media, golf, movies (didn’t see that one coming, did you?), practicing the real presence of the Holy Spirit, occasional epicurean indulgences, entertainment and computer technology, photography, spending time with his wife, Kimberly, and his three kids, Alexandra, Darien and Harrison.

A little known fact is that he used to work as a fire claims and casualty adjustor for State Farm Insurance before attending film school.  He figures that if James Cameron can leap from being a truck driver to director, then there’s hope.

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