David Darg is an American director and cinematographer. In 2011 he co-founded the media company
RYOT
Ryot (alternatives: raiyat, rait or ravat) was a general economic term used throughout India for peasant cultivators but with variations in different provinces. While zamindars were landlords, raiyats were tenants and cultivators, and served as hi ...
with
Bryn Mooser. He received critical praise for his documentary ''
Body Team 12'' which garnered him a nomination for the
Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for best documentary short film. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are annou ...
at the
88th Academy Awards.
Darg is a pioneer of Virtual Reality film making and directed the first VR film shot in a disaster zone.
In 2015 Darg was commissioned by Apple to create a short documentary using the iPhone 6s ahead of the phone's release.
In addition to his awards for directing, Darg is an Emmy winning editor having won in 2017 with Body Team 12 and nominated in 2018 with Fear Us Women.
Darg spent over a decade as a first responder to natural disasters. He lived in China for 1 year following the 2008 Sichuan quake and lived in a Haiti for 2.5 years after the 2010 earthquake.
Career
David is the co-founder o
RYOT- a US media company acquired by Verizon in 2016. David was named one of
Esquire Magazine's "2012 Americans of the Year" for his work in Haiti as well as a "Hollywood Maverick" by
Details magazine for his documentary work in crisis and disaster zones. Darg is a graduate of Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy and has travelled to over 120 countries.
Filmography
* 2010: ''Sun City Picture House''
* 2012: ''Baseball in the Time of Cholera''
* 2013: ''The Rider and The Storm''
* 2014: ''Mitimetallica''
* 2015: ''
Body Team 12''
* 2015: ''Nepal Quake Project (Virtual Reality Film)''
* 2015: ''The Painter of Jalouzie''
* 2016: ''The Rugby Boys of Memphis''
* 2017: ''Fear Us Women''
* 2018: ''The Robben Island Mandela Experience (Augmented Reality)''
* 2018: ''The Young Lions'' (Virtual Reality Film)
* 2019: ''Lazarus''
* 2020: ''
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
''You Cannot Kill David Arquette'' is a 2020 American documentary film, directed by David Darg and Price James. It follows David Arquette attempting to return to wrestling after his acting career stalls.
It was released on August 21, 2020, by ...
''
Humanitarian Work
Darg spent over a decade as a humanitarian first responder and frontline contributor for Reuters, the BBC
and CNN, covering some of the world's largest natural disasters and wars. He has traveled to over 100 countries with experience in cross sector humanitarian development and relief work alongside his position as Vice-president for International Response at
Operation Blessing International.
References
External links
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Living people
American filmmakers
American humanitarians
Year of birth missing (living people)