David Bain(IV)
- Producer
- Production Manager
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
David Bain is an Emmy award winning filmmaker, a media activist and educator. He believes that teaching critical media pedagogy to people who live in "high crime communities" will contribute to the eradicating the deviant, antisocial behaviors that have become normalized in places where poor people of color live in the United States. David graduated from St. John's University with a Bachelor of Science in Sociology in 2007.
David is a founding member of Bain Consulting Firm and the Media Coordinator of the Nonprofit organization Community Capacity Development (CCD). David has been developing youth leadership programs and creating media literacy curriculum for high risk youth in programs in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens for over 18 years now. David is the founder of the Reel Justice Works, an annual 10-week media literacy workshop series in Rikers' Island Academy. Workshops are twice a week and groups are from 20-30 incarcerated juveniles ages 16-21 focused on engaging them in ways that will help them avoid recidivism.
David received an Emmy for his work as First Assistant Director on at Documentary entitled "Back Door Channels": The Price of Peace which chronicles the interplay between the official government channels and the men who acted behind the scenes during the course of peace process between Israel and Egypt.. In 2018 David was inducted into the Director's Guild of America.
David's work in film production began more than 10 years ago with and Internship in Island Def Jam's video production department. Since then David has found that working with high risk young people had motivated him to develop programming and content with progressive themes that can be used to shift social norms and give access to the ability to create media to people who traditionally haven't had any say in the way that they are represented.
David is a founding member of Bain Consulting Firm and the Media Coordinator of the Nonprofit organization Community Capacity Development (CCD). David has been developing youth leadership programs and creating media literacy curriculum for high risk youth in programs in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens for over 18 years now. David is the founder of the Reel Justice Works, an annual 10-week media literacy workshop series in Rikers' Island Academy. Workshops are twice a week and groups are from 20-30 incarcerated juveniles ages 16-21 focused on engaging them in ways that will help them avoid recidivism.
David received an Emmy for his work as First Assistant Director on at Documentary entitled "Back Door Channels": The Price of Peace which chronicles the interplay between the official government channels and the men who acted behind the scenes during the course of peace process between Israel and Egypt.. In 2018 David was inducted into the Director's Guild of America.
David's work in film production began more than 10 years ago with and Internship in Island Def Jam's video production department. Since then David has found that working with high risk young people had motivated him to develop programming and content with progressive themes that can be used to shift social norms and give access to the ability to create media to people who traditionally haven't had any say in the way that they are represented.
