Film Biz Chat: One on One with Documentary filmmaker, David Licata

David Licata (Director-Producer-Editor) is a filmmaker and writer. His film Tango Octogenario was broadcast on Reel New York (PBS) and screened at festivals internationally, including New Directors/New Films, the Tribeca Film Festival, and dozens of others from Yokahama to Krakow. He was Second Unit DP on Roland Tec’s We Pedal Uphill and DP for Tec’s Larry Stanton Project, a documentary in production featuring David Hockney. David received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, The Puffin Foundation, The Yip Harburg Foundation, and Dance Films Association and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, The Ucross Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, VCCA, Jentel Arts, Fundacion Valparaiso, and Centrum Creative Arts. 

David’s writing has appeared in The Literary Review, Pilgrimage, R.KV.R.Y. Quarterly Literary Journal, Hitotoki, Word Riot, Boston Literary Magazine, and others. Two of his short stories have been anthologized, one in the critically acclaimed Two Countries: Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents (Red Hen Press, fall 2017). He has written for ESPN and contributed articles and conducted interviews for Filmmaker Magazine and Talkhouse.