David Roth Weiss is an independent producer, director, editor, and a leading industry consultant based in Los Angeles. He is a veteran of the motion picture and television industry with a broad range of creative and technical expertise and experience that includes film and television, documentaries, and corporate communications.
David’s professional credits include feature films, commercials, broadcast documentaries, network sports and promos, medical videos, and reality TV series. His award-winning documentary films have aired on National Geographic Explorer, Discovery, PBS, and the BBC. In 1983 he founded David Weiss Productions, Inc., which is still going strong today, specializing in High Definition post-production and complete film and video creative services on historical, political, and environmental documentaries; corporate communications; as well as technology-related consulting and problem solving.
David began his professional career on the documentary camera crew at the CBS affiliate, WNAC-TV in Boston, while studying Broadcasting & Film at the Boston University School of Public Communications. After graduating, he relocated to L.A., where he spent several years as a sound mixer and sound designer on hundreds of TV commercials. After his acceptance as a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute, he turned his attention to producing, directing, and later editing, which ultimately became his specialty.
David produced, directed, and shot the 1987 oceanographic documentary, An Incidental Kill, which received the prestigious Genesis Award from The Fund For Animals and won Best Professional Film, Best Underwater Cinematography (by renowned U/W cinematographer Howard Hall), and Best Investigative Journalism at the International Wildlife Film Festival in Montana. An Incidental Kill was also one of the first films featured on Discovery's Shark Week, and scenes from the film can be seen on permanent display at Disney's Epcot Center, Seaworld, and Marineland.
David's passions are historical, political, and environmental documentaries; true crime; his dogs Willie and Augie; and, of course, his golf game. David plays golf to a 5-handicap, so consider yourself warned. His favorite recent project was editing the 2007 feature-length documentary, Rush to War, about the war in Iraq and the history of American foreign policy.
David contributes to Creative COW magazine with popular articles drawn from his industry experience. He also writes for CreativeCOW.net and is a host of the Creative COW's forums for Final Cut, Apple Final Cut Pro Basics, Business & Marketing and Indie Film & Documentary.
Recently, CreativeCOW leader, David Roth Weiss purchased his very first CD and DVD duplicator. After a lot of research he chose the ILY SpartanPro, and it did not take him long to realize that he should not have gone so long without one.
