David Slade

David Aldrin Slade (born 26 September 1969) is a British film and television director and actor. His works include the films Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Slade is also a director for television, directing episodes for Breaking Bad, Awake, Hannibal, Crossbones, Powers, American Gods and Black Mirror. Before he was a film director, Slade was a director of commercials and music videos.

David Slade
Slade at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con
Born
David Aldrin Slade

(1969-09-26) 26 September 1969
United Kingdom
Occupation(s)Actor, director
Years active1994–present

Life and career
Slade at the London premiere of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, 2010

He started his career making amateur music videos for local bands in the south of England. He had his films processed by an elderly woman who developed super 8 films for cheap in her bathtub. His first professional job was directing a commercial for the video game Silent Hill, for the English market.[1] His first feature film, Hard Candy, was released in 2005 by Lions Gate Entertainment, who purchased the independent movie at the Sundance Film Festival.[2] He went on to direct the vampire film 30 Days of Night in 2007.[3] Slade directed The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,[4] the third film in the Twilight film series.[5]

In a Twitter post, Slade listed his favorite films as Performance, Wings of Desire, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Possession.[6] Slade also attributes Performance as his main inspiration for becoming a film director.[7]

Filmography

Feature films

Music videos
  • Scheer's "Wish You Were Dead"
  • Beaumont Hannant's "Utuba"
  • DJ Hooligan's "Rave Nation"
  • Speedy J's "Symmetry" (animated video piece titled "Corpus Porpoise Posthumous Non Polhemus")
  • EMF's "Bleeding You Dry"
  • Aphex Twin's "Donkey Rhubarb"
  • Collapsed Lung's "Eat My Goal"
  • LFO's "Tied Up"
  • C. J. Bolland's "Sugar Is Sweeter"
  • Babybird's "If You'll Be Mine"
  • DJ Rap's "Good to Be Alive" (original UK version)
  • 3 Colours Red's "Beautiful Day"
  • Apollo 440's "Stop the Rock"
  • Stone Temple Pilots' "Sour Girl"
  • OPM's "Heaven Is a Halfpipe"
  • Maxim's "Carmen Queasy"
  • P.O.D.'s "School of Hard Knocks"
  • Stereophonics' "Mr. Writer"
  • Muse's "New Born"
  • Muse's "Bliss"
  • Muse's "Hyper Music"
  • Muse's "Feeling Good"
  • Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girl"
  • David Gray's "This Year's Love"
  • System of a Down's "Aerials"
  • The Music's "Take the Long Road and Walk It"
  • Rob Dougan's "Clubbed to Death"
  • Starsailor's "Poor Misguided Fool"
  • AFI's "Girl's Not Grey"
  • Turin Brakes' "Pain Killer"
  • The Killers' "Goodnight, Travel Well" for UNICEF in conjunction with MTV EXIT

Short films
  • I Smell Quality (1994)
  • Do Geese See God? (2004)
  • MEATDOG: What's Fer Dinner (2008)[8]

Television series

References
  1. "David Slade - My First Shoot". Myfirstshoot.com. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  2. "Press Conference: Interviews with the Cast & Crew of 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'". BloodyDisgusting. 14 June 2010.
  3. "Twilight Saga: Eclipse Gets a New Editor; Muse Dropped from Soundtrack". DreadCentral. 9 August 2012.
  4. "David Slade Talks Twilight Saga: Eclipse; New TV Spot "Something New"". DreadCentral. 10 June 2010.
  5. "David Slade to Direct Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" (Press release). Summit Entertainment. 22 April 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
  6. DAVID A SLADE [@DAVID_A_SLADE] (5 March 2012). "ALL TIME top 5 "PERFORMANCE"Roeg/Cammell. "WINGS OF DESIRE" Wim Wenders. "2001/Clockwork Orange" Kubrick "POSSESSION" Zulawski No surprises" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  7. DAVID A SLADE [@DAVID_A_SLADE] (5 March 2012). "@AussieBecka Nic Roeg/Donald Cammell's "Performance"" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  8. "So Funny, It's Scary: Hollywood's Top Horror Directors to Bring Original Comedy Pilots to Xbox 360 This Fall". Microsoft. 23 July 2008. Archived from the original on 5 September 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2008.
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