David Darg

David Darg is an American director and cinematographer. In 2011 he co-founded the media company RYOT with Bryn Mooser. He received critical praise for his documentary Body Team 12 which garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 88th Academy Awards.^[1]

Career

Darg is a graduate of Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy.^{[attribution needed]} He was named one of Esquire Magazine's "2012 Americans of the Year"^[2] for his work in Haiti as well as a "Hollywood Maverick" by Details magazine^[3] for his documentary work in crisis and disaster zones. Darg is the co-founder of RYOT^[4] - a US media company acquired by Verizon in 2016.

In 2015, Darg directed the first virtual reality film shot in a disaster zone.^[5] That same year, Darg was commissioned by Apple to create a short documentary using the iPhone 6s ahead of the phone's release.^[6][7][8]

Darg is also an Emmy winning editor having won in 2017 with Body Team 12 and nominated in 2018 with Fear Us Women.

Filmography

• 2010: Sun City Picture House
• 2012: Baseball in the Time of Cholera (nominated at the International Film Festival of Wales^[9])
• 2013: The Rider and The Storm
• 2014: Mitimetallica
• 2015: Body Team 12
• 2015: Nepal Quake Project (Virtual Reality Film)
• 2015: The Painter of Jalouzie
• 2016: The Rugby Boys of Memphis
• 2017: Fear Us Women
• 2018: The Robben Island Mandela Experience (Augmented Reality)
• 2018: The Young Lions (Virtual Reality Film)
• 2019: Lazarus
• 2020: You Cannot Kill David Arquette

Humanitarian Work

Darg spent over a decade as a humanitarian first responder and frontline contributor for Reuters, the BBC^[10] and CNN, covering natural disasters and wars. He lived in China for 1 year following the 2008 Sichuan quake and lived in a Haiti for 2.5 years after the 2010 earthquake. He has traveled to over 100 countries with experience in cross sector humanitarian development and relief work alongside his position as Vice-president for International Response at Operation Blessing International.