David Attali is a French film director, video artist, entrepreneur and producer based in Hong Kong for close to thirty years. He has helmed numerous creative projects including video art, short films, performance art and exhibition curation.

His talent for languages (7 including fluent Cantonese and a good command row Japanese) and his quest to understand “the other” lead him from the suburbs of Paris to the White desert, the jungles of Nuwara Elia, to explore video art, the documentary form and experimental films.

David’s mini doc “Paddling home” is a part of the permanent collection of West Kowloon’s M+ museum. He has received the audience award for “Dance not die”, a study on resilience in age and his most recent short film.

“Speedsters”, a chase on rollerblades in the nightly city. His early filming works are Videopoetries (Saigon circus, Hi Ya Ho...) aiming to capture beauty in Asia’s daily life.

“Itch”, his first narrative short fiction is a study on pain as a metaphor for the stress office politics can create.

“Cinema Conversations” had him film (and direct) Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Audiard, Jean Pierre Jeunet, Gaspar Noé, Jalil Lespert, Isabelle Huppert and Christophe Lambert.

David is also is credited as a producer and director on numerous broadcast and commercial projects most recently a series of series of 32 cinematic documentaries for Invest HK. Recent credits include Netflix’s “Restaurants on the Edge” and Disney+ ” Own the Room”