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PRESS

"Dinner" Press Release, Sept. 2000

I was interviewed for this article in Filmmaker Magazine, about editing.

That article is also here at the IFP.

I was also interviewed for this article in Video Systems.

Here's a video interview of me from the Sci Fi Channel.

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BIO

David Tarleton
Producer / Director / Editor / Writer / D.P.

Born in Williamsburg, Virginia, at an early age David acquired a taste for the fantastic, the surreal and the hyperreal. As a producer, director, and editor, he has created programs for Sony Pictures, The Muppets, The Sci-Fi Channel, Walt Disney Pictures, Fox, Comedy Central, Disney Channel, Tokyopop, Mattel, Universal, Warner Brothers, Baby Einstein, Showtime and more.

He currently executive produces and directs the Internet improvisational comedy series Dorkumentary, which he created with his wife, Adria Dawn. He was the sole editor of all 34 episodes of the Muppets’ series “Statler and Waldorf From the Balcony,” for Disney. The show won the Webby for Best Comedy Series, a Telly for Best Use of Comedy, and was named as one of Time Magazine’s “25 Websites We Can’t Live Without.”

After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in film directing from the University of Southern California, David broke through by producing and directing the award-winning short film “Dinner.” After premiering at the Slamdance Film Festival, it played on the Sci-Fi Channel, and was distributed on DVD.

David was producer/co-writer/editor of “What Babies Want,” the ground breaking, award-winning documentary about birth, narrated by Noah Wyle, and recently produced and edited the followup documentary "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 documentary “Dark Secrets,” and senior editor for “The Pat Kilbane Show” for Comedy Central. During the dot-com bubble, David was the senior editor at Wirebreak, a pioneering Internet video content provider.

In addition to filmmaking, David has a strong background in the theatre. With his wife, Adria Dawn, he produced and directed the play “The Miss Firecracker Contest,” and executive produced “Rock N Roll Sex Machine,” her one-woman show. He has directed the plays “Sweeney Todd,” “No Exit,” and “The Indian Wants the Bronx.”

He was a festival programmer for nearly half a decade for the Slamdance Film Festival, helping select the feature films to be shown at the festival. David is also an accomplished musician, graphic artist and writer. Before moving to Los Angeles, for 12 years he worked as an actor/historian, recreating Eighteenth Century Virginia at Colonial Williamsburg.

He is currently an Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago, teaching Film Editing and Post-production, and formerly taught Documentary production at UCLA Extension, in Los Angeles. In addition to USC, David also studied filmmaking at New York University, acting at Northwestern University, and has a Bachelor’s degree in theatre directing from the University of Virginia. He can be found on the web at davidtarleton.com.

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PICTURES

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Pictures I've made
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Pictures of me
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Pictures of my friends
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Adria Dawn's New Headshot

Adria, my fiance, has a certain Twinkle In Her Eye

Adria Dawn in Los Cabos

Adria Dawn as an Ape

Adria Dawn in The Kitchen Sink

Adria Dawn Wine Tasting

A picture of Adria Dawn, Away At Sea

Adria Dawn, with Hunky Santa, for Christmas.

This is a picture of my friend J Ayscue, who is my oldest friend, and with whom I have collaborated creatively on a number of occasions.

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PLAYS

Plays I've made.

I recently finished producing/directing "The Miss Firecracker Contest," with the lovely and talented Adria Dawn, who starred in it and produced the play with me. I'll have all the pictures, program, etc. for the show up some day. Besides directing, I was also production designer and sound designer.

The Miss Firecracker Contest Poster Art

Here's a picture of David Tarleton and Adria Dawn, who produced "The Miss Firecracker Contest" together. Adria Dawn starred in the play, and David Tarleton directed.

On this website someone has posted the breakdown for "The Miss Firecracker Contest." Note that the breakdown, as Breakdown Services sent it out, listed that Popeye was supposed to be a man. She's actually a female character, but someone over at Breakdown Services thought that it must be a mistake. We got many male submissions for Popeye. Sorry guys!

Here's some pretentious director's notes I did for Sweeney Todd, a play I directed in college.

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FILMS

MY ONLINE PORTFOLIO:
(online video)

Dorkumentary
Executive Producer / Director / D.P. / Editor / Visual Effects

Dinner
Producer / Director / co-Writer / Editor / Visual Effects

Reducing Infant Mortality
Producer / Editor / Visual Effects

Shalom Salaam
Producer / Editor

What Babies Want
Producer / co-Writer / Editor

Were The World Mine Trailer
Producer / Editor / Visual Effects

Sweet Tooth
co-Director / D.P. / Editor

The Making of Double Vision
Producer / Editor

His Little Girl
Producer / Director / Writer / Editor

Neptune: King of Fire
Producer / Director / DP / Editor

Emile Castelle Comedy Sketch from the Pat Kilbane Show Pilot
Senior Editor

The Trailer for The Sea Is Watching
Editor

Interview with David Tarleton on the Sci Fi Channel

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My Film Work:
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Check out my bio for some of the films I've made.

Here are some film related links, articles, etc. for me:

My IMDB page.

What Babies Want homepage

What Babies Want's IMDB page.

Noah Wyle and I on set from the shoot of "What Babies Want"

"Dinner" Press Release, Sept. 2000

"Dinner" at Slamdance!

You can BUY "Dinner" at Amazon.

There's a picture of Carey DiPietro, one of the actresses in "Dinner" in this writeup from Slamdance.

"Dinner" played at the Johns Hopkins Film Fest too.

More Johns Hopkins Film Fest mentions.

There is a clip from "Dinner" on this site.

A Review of FUSION ONE, the DVD that includes "Dinner" on it.

A nice review of "Dinner".

Here's another review of "Dinner".

And still another review of "Dinner".

This is the British Board of Censors classification of "The Making of Warriors of Heaven and Earth," which I produced and edited.

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MUSIC

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POETRY

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FICTION

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ESSAYS

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Writing about the art and practice of Film Making
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Here's a short essay called Thoughts on Editing.

I was interviewed for this article in Filmmaker Magazine, about editing.

That article is also here at the IFP.

I was also interviewed for this article in Video Systems.

This blog entry includes some of my thoughts about film making and the distinction between documentary and journalism.

I mention some things about film making in this article.

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Writing on Miscellaneous Topics
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The Parable of the Alien Black Hole

On the Transmigration of the Soul

A short essay about moving beyond Empirical knowledge

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