About the Filmmaker
David Licata at Arcosanti.
David Licata is the writer and director of A Life’s Work.
He wrote and directed 8½ x 11 (featuring Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo) 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.
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, theatrically released by Cinevolve. One of the more mind-blowing experiences of his life was shooting an interview Mr. Tec conducted with David Hockney for The Larry Stanton Project, a documentary in production.
Not adverse to print, David 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?
His fiction and nonfiction have appeared online at hitotoki.org, wordriot.org, Sole Literary Journal, bostonliterarymagazine.com and others. His short story, “There Is Joy Before the Angels of God,” one in a collection related stories, was published in The Literary Review.
David received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and Dance Films Associations and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Playa Summer Lake Artist Residency, Blue Mountain Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Jentel Arts, Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), and Centrum Arts and Creative Education.
