About David Tarleton
An award-winning producer, director and editor, David has created programs for Sony Pictures, The Muppets, Syfy Channel, Walt Disney Pictures, 3Net, Fox, Comedy Central, Disney Channel, Tokyopop, Mattel, Universal, Warner Brothers, Baby Einstein, Showtime, Learn360, Random Media and more.David is producer and director of the award-winning feature film "Hunter," a supernatural thriller set in Chicago, distributed by Random Media. David produced and directed the groundbreaking 3D television series "Dark Secrets," for cable channel 3Net, which played domestically, internationally, and on Netflix. He is executive producer, director and editor of the award-winning new media comedy series "Dorkumentary," starring Adria Dawn, and was editor of the Webby Award-winning Muppets series "Statler and Waldorf From The Balcony," for Disney. His breakthrough film as producer/director/editor, the gothic fairy-tale "Dinner," premiered at Slamdance, played on the SyFy Channel, and was released on DVD.David produced and edited the award-winning feature documentary "What Babies Want," narrated by Noah Wyle, and its follow-up "Reducing Infant Mortality." He produced and edited "The Making of Warriors of Heaven and Earth," and "The Making of Double Vision," for Sony Pictures. He was also a producer, DP and editor on the pilot for "Dark Secrets," and senior editor for "The Pat Kilbane Show" for Comedy Central. He was VFX Supervisor for the award-winning feature documentary "Head Games," directed by Steve James. David was the senior editor at Wirebreak, a pioneering Internet video content provider.David co-founded the production company Tarleton/Dawn Productions in 2004 with his wife, Adria Dawn. The company has produced over twenty films, numerous plays, a streaming series, and has an education division. David is also a partner in Revealing Media Group, which produces the socially activist short film series "Kids Matter," including the short films "Unsafe," "Blackout," "Help," "Pressure," "Viral," "Excluded," and "Bystander," distributed throughout the world, which he produced, co-directed, shot and edited.He is producer of the upcoming feature documentary "SafeZone," about Syrian refugees in Lebanon, which spun off the award-winning short films "SafeZone: Fatima's Journey," and "SafeZone: Potato Girls." He is also in post-production on the all-greenscreen film "The Photographist," an adaptation of a Hans Christian Andersen story.David also produces and directs theatre. With his wife, Adria Dawn, he produced and co-directed "Dorkumentary Live!" at Stage 773 in Chicago. He produced and directed the play "The Miss Firecracker Contest," and executive produced "Rock N Roll Sex Machine," both in Los Angeles. He directed the plays "Sweeney Todd," "No Exit," and "The Indian Wants the Bronx," in Virginia.David has served as a juror for numerous film festivals and awards, and was a programmer for the Slamdance Film Festival for nearly a half decade. For 12 years he worked as an actor/historian at Colonial Williamsburg, in Virginia. His writing has been published in CineMontage and Screen Magazine. He organized the CILECT Global Postproduction Symposium, an international conference connecting academics and professional filmmakers from around the world.He is a tenured Associate Professor in the Cinema and Television Arts department at Columbia College Chicago. He is the Director of Graduate Programs, and was formerly the Editing and Post-Production Coordinator and the So...