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Director and generally well-rounded filmmaker, John David Moffat is at his core, a curious soul with a love for visual design, sound design and storytelling. A native Californian, John was born in Bakersfield with his adolescence based in Chula Vista, three miles north of Mexico where he gained a keen and empathetic sense of cultural awareness. John attended San Francisco State where he not only procured a degree, but found a love of motorcycles, storytelling, and fog. His magnetic pull to storytelling drug him to the LA Times where he shot a short documentary during Standing Rock and worked with VICE & UPROXX Media on award-winning branded content like Warriors of the West, a story of Wildland Firefighters & Big Rad Wolf, the story of the Founder of American Apparel.
John also found the passionate intersection between community action and sports, both as a story producer for the NFL's Emmy-nominated documentary series and becoming Emmy-nominated for Us Against the World, a documentary about racial discrimination in basketball. Going on tour with Angels and Airwaves and The New Regime, who is fronted by Nine Inch Nails’ Ilan Rubin, John learned how to perfect his one man shooting set up and become a truly aggressive and effective multi-tasker to capture the band's dynamic personality.
He has finished two feature films: Blackout Experiment, a horror film about 8 strangers getting to know each other and Goin' Around, an emotionally truthful improv drama spurred by motorcycles. It is about a return to roots confronted by loss, connection, and the insanity we put ourselves through in attempts to heal. Goin’ Around is currently making its festival run, so far nabbing Best Feature and Best Supporting Actor at LA Live Film Fest 2020 and moving onto the Berlin Lift Off Festival to start off 2021. During the pandemic, he started his third feature, Skinwalker, shot in the Californian wilderness, a survivalist story of alien abduction and the enduring strength of love. John sees the beauty in the gritty and all-too-human darkness that buds in each of us. Where that darkness blooms is where he sees the emotional honesty and truth that follows it.