David Zaccheus the filmmaker
David was born in Devonport, New Zealand in 1956. He was a teenager in the early 1970’s: “I grew up in that era between ‘The Pill’ and ‘A.I.D.S.’”, he says.
David has worked as a stills photographer, film crew, and casting agent, and has doubled for an Academy Award winning actor in a feature film. He has attended numerous workshops and short courses on acting, audition and presentation techniques, and has acted in various speaking and non-speaking roles in short films, television dramas, and feature films. He has a versatile acoustic range and enjoys the challenge and demands of voiceover, impersonation and commentary work.
David has also completed formal and informal instruction in film production, incorporating studio multi-camera recording, EFP camera field recording, and post production video editing.
He has been an active member of the Byron Bay Film Artists Co- operative and the Byron Film Club, since 2004, and has written/directed two short films, produced through his own company Rumbala Australia Pty Ltd: ‘China Plates’, (about mateship), and ‘Learning 2 Fly’ (about rejection). The Australian film commission recently requested the inclusion of ‘Learning 2 Fly’ in their 2007/2008 catalogue of Australian Short Films.
David has also written two books; one a true story about his relationship with his father, entitled “Oddfellow”, and one a novel in the mind- body-spirit genre, entitled ‘Playing for Keeps’ . Both books are deposited with National and State Libraries and available thru his web-page at www.lulu.com/davidzaccheus.
David now lives in Brisbane, Australia, where he also operates a business manufacturing and supplying gluten-free, wheat-free, dairy-free, organic snackfood to retailers in the health food industry.
'Learning 2 Fly' is a film about rejection. Is rejection a disturbing tragedy, or a revealing elation? A rebuff, or a revelation? Writer/Director David Zaccheus, Director of Photography Aran Major, and actor Scott Bedford take us inside the mind of a passionate migrant actor. Into his dream, and the cost of its fulfillment."We have attempted to marry the disciplines of theatre to those of film, with this short drama production," says David Zaccheus. "I found myself entering the black hole of 'rejection', and having to dig out some of my own demons in the process."It was premiered in the same theatre as it was filmed in,” says David. “We had fun with the lighting; with Jim Higgins and assistant Bobbie Rossini dedicated to theatre lighting, and Aran and myself working the interplay with our set lighting."Mark Sbaratto on Sound Recording, Sabine Hellfaier on Make-up, and Bronwyn Birdsall on Stills/General Assist, are all also included in the skeleton all-local cast and crew for this film. See it at the Byron Film Club.
'China Plates' It's all about... their mates, their mate's mates, and their mate's mate's mates. See it at the Byron Film Club.
