David Secter

David Secter is the award-winning writer, producer, and director of numerous narrative and documentary features, TV specials and theater productions. His latest picture Take The Flame! Gay Games: Grace, Grit & Glory, a doc feature on the 20 Year history of The Gay Games and homophobia in sports, with narration by Greg Louganis, got glowing notices at its world premiere at NewFest in New York in June 2005. He has completed three pilots for Rendezvous, a proposed series of monthly arts specials: Pacific Passions, shot at the Festival of Pacific Arts in New Caledonia, and BURN, a two-hour two-year trip to the annual Burning Man Arts Festival, now showing on The Discovery Channel in Europe. His latest narrative movie CyberDorm, an offbeat campus comedy about webcasting, is ready for release. Secter began his film career with Love With The Proper Guppy, a short sold to The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. His first feature Winter Kept Us Warm, made while he was a student at The University of Toronto, was the first English Canadian feature selected for The Cannes Film Festival and won awards in Amsterdam and Montreal. His next movie The Offering was nominated for a Canadian Film Award as Best Picture of the Year, screened on national network television, and released theatrically by Columbia Pictures, who also distributed his family featurette The Harrowing Tale of the Haunted Lighthouse. Now in California, Secter is developing a number of productions for film, theater, television and the net. He has finished the screenplay for a psychological thriller film Hide And Seek; produced the pilot for On A Roll, a weekly TV/web travel series; and continues work on Rendezvous, celebrating arts and travel discoveries. He is the subject of The Best of Secter & The Rest of Secter, a biofilm produced by his nephew Joel Secter, which recently opened to exceptional reviews in Canada and the US. David Secter’s biography also appears in various editions of Who’s Who in Media, Who’s Who in Entertainment and Who’s Who in America.