David Presley: director and producer

David Presley was born on the 3rd of April, 1970 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, a residential neighborhood located close to Hollywood and all major movie studios, probably one of the factors that influenced him to pursue a career in the film industry. He started out as a video assistant operator in 1997 in several films such as Contact, Starship Troopers, The Insider. He was also involved as a video assistant in various successful movies, such as Gone in Sixty Seconds, Charlie’s Angels, The Fast and the Furious, The Rundown, Starsky and Hutch, Syriana, There Will Be Blood to name a few.

His interest in short movies made him try his hand at writing and directing the short comedy called “The Date”. He assumed the writer, director and producer’s roles for other short movies, such as Face of the Enemy, a story with moral implications about the experience of a combat camera man during World War Two. This may be inspired from his personal experience, as he served as a reconnaissance expert in the US Army Airborne. Other two short movies he is credited for as a writer, director and producer are Rule Number One, a short comedy about the experiences of high school students exploring the dating world, and Lesson Lost, another short movie about war experiences.

The most known movie he wrote and directed was Ninja Cheerleaders launched in 2008, a comedy film about three teenage girls, cheerleaders and martial artists, dreaming of getting into an Ivy League school but getting into a lot of trouble, with their sensei being kidnapped and their money being stolen. They use their ninja training to retrieve their sensei and manage to save the day.

Suggestively enough for a video expert, he achieved the highest score on the video arcade game Time Pilot ’84 and it was published in the 1986 Guinness Book of World Records. He confessed his passion for video games during an interview, saying he started playing at the age of 12 and continued playing “all day, every day.”