David A. Ford
DP/Producer
David A. Ford is an accomplished Director of Photography whose work on documentary films, narrative features, and commercials has appeared on PBS, HBO, LOGO, national cable outlets, and film festivals nationwide. His credits include three Emmy Award winning documentaries including Ric Burns’ Eugene O’Neill and New York: A Documentary Film as well as Florentine Films’ Divided Highways. As a producer/director his work has appeared nationally on cable. His film Giddy Up! On the Rodeo Circuit appeared on MTV’s channel LOGO. He shot and produced Happenstance, winner of the 2007 HBO Shout! competition. In 2008, he shot the Emmy award winning The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not For Sale, which aired on HBO. He is a successful signed Producer/Director with Image Bank, the largest stock footage supplier in the world.
As an educator he has been a Senior Advisor and Cinematography Professor at SUNY Purchase and an Adjunct Professor of Cinematography in the Columbia University Graduate Film Department. He founded and runs the Digital Workshop, where students are trained in the art and craft of the digital cinematography and the production process.
He is currently finishing a documentary following renown choreographer, Ellis Woods, and her professional dance troupe as they work with non-dancers at the LGBT Community Center in lower Manhattan. David specializes in directing & producing multi-camera HD shoots.
