Born in Moseley, Birmingham, England, and a life-long Birmingham City Football Club fan (known as 'The Blues', the working class team of the area). The son of a builder (deceased) and a homemaker (deceased), David (Dave) Mitchell began as an actor in theatre, performing at the 1989 Covent Garden International Street Artists Festival. He trained at the Method Studio (formerly the Lee Strasberg Studio, London). His debut play 'ZooZooZoo' which he wrote, acted and directed was performed at the 1990 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. David studied film at Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was awarded a Master of Science Degree, before landing his first professional job with writing for the award-winning feature 'Darklands' (1997), directed by Julian Richards (I). Dave produced and acted in the British horror 'Only Darkness', then wrote the story for the British feature 'Jack of Diamonds' (2001). With Adam Kreutner, Dave wrote Dead Fish (2004) and 'Open Water 2' (aka 'Adrift' UK) (2006). Dave worked for New Line Cinema for three years on their project "Roofworld", before launching his own production company. In 2009, his short film "Fleabird" was shot in London, directed by Dan Hartley and shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Dave has directed music promos, documentary and short films, including the Award winning music promo for the 2012 2weeks2make it entry by the band Don't Move!, as well as directing the 52min documentary "Personal Ghosts" in 2012. In 2013 Dave directed the feature documentary "The Shadow Scheme".

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