David Shuff

Niskayuna Hs, Attended 1991 - 1994, Class of 1994

SUNY Purchase, Kansai Gaidai

State University of New York - College at Purchase, Attended 1994 - 1999, Class of 1999, Bachelor's Degree, Film w/ Asian Studies minor

Filmmaker, Film Editor

National Geographic Society, Smithsonian Institution, AAA, Sons of Planned Parenthood, Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition, City Harvest, MOMA, Oxfam

filmmaking, bright people, art, extracurricular activites, human relationships, travel, sexuality, rock climbing, asia, colorful tins, blowing in dog's ears, robots, toys, steampunk, mysteries of the deep, good-natured intellectual debate, cooperative video games, camp fires

The Amazing Adventures of Kaliver and Clay, Waiting, The Red Tent, Anna Karenina, Understanding Comics, Blankets, [un]fashion

Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Floating Weeds, Antonia's Line, Lost in Translation, Chungking Express, Say Anything, Sideways, Ghost World, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Sense & Sensibility, Floating Weeds, Goonies, Aliens, Amelie, Smoke Signals, The Neverending Story, The Sixth Sense, Yojimbo, Ikiru

All sorts of eclectic crap... Often I just let KCRW music lead me by the nose

Homestar Runner, Frontline, Nova! (PBS is the only station I get)

I'd like to think I'm truly nice and rather witty; but I only use my wit for good. Helpful to a fault. Gotta be making something. Usually upbeat and hopeful, but a sucker for bitter-sweet stories. I like myself a lot but don't think I'm better than anyone else. Easy to get along with and usually well liked; except that one dude at that party -- I don't know what his problem was. But rather than get pissed I try hard to find sympathy for anyone who's being mean. I've a collaborative sense of humor and am told my laughter is contagious. I aspire to make movies that turn people's lives around; or at least turn their days around. Maybe help them feel that although life is very messy it's likely to work out okay. I'm the proud parent of the most chicken-shit sweet heart mushy love lab-mix in all of Williamsburg. Oh, and despite the glasses and living in Williamsburg I really don't think I qualify as a hipster.

I really can't ask to be blessed with more fantastic friends than I've already been given, but I'm suppose I'm always open to meeting more inspirational people who are keeping it real, keeping it positive, and doing their own thing. People who really listen and if there's an interruption remember what you were saying. People who make stuff just because, give as much as they get, are genuine, warm, playful, open, laugh easily, and never yell at the wait staff.