David grew up just outside the Lake District in rural northwest England, where he and his three brothers thrived on an upbringing of film watching and storytelling. Upon graduating from University College London he entered the film industry working for Revolution Films and has since worked on many productions in a number of roles, learning from top directors and producers from the British and American industries along the way.

This year's Screenplay competition has been narrowed down to four finalists by our illustrious jury (Ross E. Lockhart, Dominique Lamssies, Susan O'Neill, Gwen Callahan). The winner will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on Sunday night at 7 pm! We can not post screenplays, but here are the synopses of the four contenders:

Feature screenplay - "Lovecraft: Into the Abyss" by Mark Sudano

This wonderfully trippy film was played during our infamous Secret Screening! The homage to Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone," the oddly cute Zornit creature, and the story based on King's "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet," all made this film a perfect fit for closing out the 2018 Festival.

Synopsis: A sci-fi writer has his life invaded by an alien. Through intense mental control, the creature makes the writer work harder and better, but paranoia and the uncertainty of the limits of reality will be the price to pay.

The 24th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival will take place October 4-6, 2019 at the beautiful Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR.

Our Guest of Honor is Victoria Price, daughter of the late Vincent Price. She will give us the scoop on what it was like to grow up in the great actor's shadow, and we'll be featuring some of Vincent Price's more Lovecraftian feature films.