David Wheeler Resum
David Wheeler is a multiple award winning creative leader and innovator with considerable domestic and international experience directing teams of creative personnel in all aspects of both game development and film production.
Director/Writer/Producer of Video Games, Film, Television and Documentaries.
Guest speaker at E3 and GDC. Guest lecturer at AFI (American Film Institute) and Art Center College Of Design.
Games Include
Medal of Honor, Ghost Busters, World in Conflict, TimeShift, The Bourne Conspiracy, 50 Cent, F.E.A.R., Perseus Mandate, Crash, Prototype, Tender Loving Care, Point Of View, 11th Hour, Seventh Guest, Clandestiny, WIC Soviet Assault and more.
Experience
Chief Creative Officer, Here And Now Transmedia January 2012 Present
Consulting to the Game and Film communities: Creative Direction and Content Direction including project development, story, script, animation, cinematics, motion capture, voice and performance direction, music
Creative Director, Machinima Inc. November 2009 December 2011
Creative oversight of a portfolio of episodic games, developing a new convergence of cinematic story and gameplay.
Senior Creative Director, Electronic Arts October 2008 November 2009
Creative Director of Cinepod, overseeing all story related content including in-game animations, cinematics and scripts on the new reboot of Medal of Honor.
Content Director, Vivendi Universal Games October 2006 October 2008
Responsible for the quality of all in-game content, having oversight with creative teams at multiple internal and external developers. Titles include Ghostbusters, The Bourne Conspiracy, World in Conflict, F.E.A.R. 2, TimeShift, 50 Cent 2, Dark Abyss, World In Conflict: Soviet Assault, Crash: Mind Over Mutant
Creative Consultant, Sierra Games May 2006 December 2006
Consulted on creative content for World In Conflict.
Co-Founder/CEO/Creative Director, Digital Circus August 1999 2006
Wrote and Directed Point of View, an interactive drama on DVD and the Internet. Created groundbreaking technology allowing interactive streaming video on the Internet.
a true step above and beyond all other interactive films, to be sure POV plays like a high end video game drama, but much more immersive very cool. (DVD Authority)
Co-Founder/Creative Director, Aftermath Media 1996 2001
Wrote and directed Tender loving Care starring John Hurt. Multiple award winning interactive drama which pushed DVD technology to still unequalled heights.
Writer/director David Wheeler has created a masterpiece in DVD technology. He has seamlessly forged a psychological thriller that molds perfectly into an interactive format (Digital Bayou)
Game Director, Trilobyte 1993 1996
Titles include 7th Guest II 11th Hour, Clandestiny
Television Credits
Hollywood Babylon - TV Series - Show Runner (Head Writer/Supervising Producer)
The Fighter - TV Movie, CBC - Writer/Director
Love, Marriage and Divorce - Special Documentary - ABC - Writer/Director
Skid Row - Documentary - CBS - Producer/Director
2 On The town - KCBS Los Angeles - Segment Producer
Eye On LA - KABC Los Angeles - Segment Producer
Here And Now - KCBS - LOs Angeles - Segment Producer
Education
The London Film School, London, England, Honors Graduate
Websites:
Moby Games: http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,14326/
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923798/
Linked in: http://www.linkedin.com/in/wheelerdavid
Honors and Awards: (Partial List)
World In Conflict received a Video Game Writing nomination from the WGA (Writers Guild Of America) and won the MI6 Gold for best In-Game Cinematic (Content Director)
Point Of View - Best DVD Technology - DVD Association (Writer/Director)
Tender Loving Care - Pro Discus Award (USA), DVD Summit Award (Europe) (Writer/Director)
Skid Row (CBS) 4 EMMY Awards (Producer/Director)
Canto (ABC) - EMMY Nomination (Producer/Director)
Bill Blass Jeans TV Commercial CLIO (Director)
Broadway Fall Fashion TV Commercial, ANDY Award (Art Directors Of New York) (Director)
Country Cream TV Commercial, TELE Award Best Cinematography (Director/Cinematographer)
Love Marriage And Divorce (ABC) Best Documentary Houston Film Festival (Writer/Director)
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