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David Sheldon, a busy writer-director-producer, with eight motion pictures scheduled for production in 2014 and 2015. He has written, directed and/or produced twelve feature films and has worked in various capacities on over 50 others. He produced, co-authored and directed "Grizzly Adams:The Legend of Dark Mountain" which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. David has been in business with most of the Hollywood studios. One of his first feature films, "Grizzly," which he wrote and produced, is one of the most financially successful independent films in motion picture history, earning 50 times its cost worldwide.

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David Sheldon, a busy writer-director-producer, with eight motion pictures scheduled for production in 2014 and 2015. He has written, directed and/or produced twelve feature films and has worked in various capacities on over 50 others. He produced, co-authored and directed "Grizzly Adams:The Legend of Dark Mountain" which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. David has been in business with most of the Hollywood studios. One of his first feature films, "Grizzly," which he wrote and produced, is one of the most financially successful independent films in motion picture history, earning 50 times its cost worldwide. He wrote, directed and/or produced "Lovely But Deadly," "Just Before Dawn," "The Guardian," "The Evil," "Day of the Animals," "The Manitou," "Sheba Baby," "Devil Times Five," and "Abby."

He co-authored the screenplay "Predator: The Concert" which featured George Clooney, Charlie Sheen, Laura Dern, Louise Fletcher, Deborah Raffin and John Rhys-Davies. He wrote and produced "Secrets of a Small Town" for Twentieth Century-Fox Television.

He started out in Hollywood editing scripts for television shows such as “Love American Style,” “The Mod Squad,” “Laugh-In,” “Mission Impossible,” “Bewitched” and “The Brady Bunch” and went on to become Director of Screenplay Development for Lawrence A. Gordon ("48 Hours," "Field Of Dreams," "Die Hard," etc.) at American International Pictures. He supervised various aspects of productions such as "Dillinger," "Sisters," "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud," "Futureworld," “Amityville Horror,” and "Walking Tall." He subsequently went into partnership with producer Phil Feldman (“Blue Thunder,” “The Toy,” “A Star is Born,” “The Getaway.”).

Sheldon earned an MFA degree in writing and directing at the Yale University School of Drama and has been a member of the Director's Unit of the Actors Studio in New York. During his college years and thereafter, he produced and directed over 100 Broadway plays and musicals at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport, Long Island, owned by his family. He subsequently became director of the Columbia Pictures Talent Farm developing new writers and actors under the supervision of Columbia Pictures talent scout Joyce Selznick. His outstanding work has been acclaimed in Newsweek, Life Magazine, the New York Times and other publications.

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