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Long Gone By, available 5/1 on all HBO streaming platforms!

With a screenplay by David Wappel and Andrew Morgan, this film premiered at HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival in 2019, and was quickly picked up by HBO for distribution. Watch it now!

Recent interview on Joined Up Writing Podcast, with Wayne Kelly. Topics discussed include story, self-reflection, specificity when writing characters and even how you should consider measuring your success as a creative.


The Last Farm is a Semifinalist in the HUMANITAS Originals Category at the 2019 Austin Film Festival, as well as an ISA Fellowship selection for the Fall 2019 Stowe Story Lab. It is the story of an isolated farmer in the near-future, who wants nothing to do with the conflict on her borders, but is drawn in when two orphans end up on her doorstep.

Screenplay Poster for The Last Farm (Art & Design by Chad Cox)

Long Gone By is an official selection of HBO’s 2019 New York Latino Film Festival.


Bio

My name is David. I’m a Los Angeles based screenwriter, specializing in grounded genre features, but I’ve written a few other things as well.

Check out my blog, and head over to my miscellaneous projects to see what else I’m up to.

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