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 (seven, including fluent Cantonese and a good command of Japanese) and his quest to understand “The Other” have led him from the suburbs of Paris to the White Desert and the jungles of Nuwara Eliya, exploring video art, the documentary form, and experimental films.

David’s mini-doc “Paddling Home” is 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 old age, and his most recent short film, “Speedsters,” a chase on rollerblades through the nightly city has thrilled audiences around the world after its premiere at Soho House Hong Kong.

“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’s early early work, “Videopoetries”, experiments (“Saigon Circus”, “Hi Ya Ho: a ARTE radio postcard”, “Paris Shanghai”...), were lofi pieces aiming to capture beauty in Asia’s daily life.

David is also credited as a producer and director on numerous broadcast and commercial projects, most recently a series of 32 cinematic documentaries for InvestHK.

Recent credits include Netflix’s “Restaurants on the Edge” and Disney+’s “Own the Room.”