David Slade

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::summary British film and television director ::

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name	David Slade
image	David Slade 2014 Comic Con 1.jpg
caption	Slade at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con
birth_name	David Aldrin Slade
birth_date
birth_place	United Kingdom
death_date
occupation	Actor, director
years_active	1994–present
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David Aldrin Slade (born 26 September 1969) is an English 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.

Career

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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. His first feature film, Hard Candy, was released in 2005 by Lions Gate Entertainment, who purchased the independent movie at the Sundance Film Festival. He went on to direct the vampire film 30 Days of Night in 2007. Slade directed The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight film series.

Personal life

Slade listed his favourite films as Performance, Wings of Desire, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Possession. He also attributes Performance as his main inspiration for becoming a film director.

Filmography

Feature films

• Hard Candy (2005)
• 30 Days of Night (2007)
• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
• Nightmare Cinema (2018) (segment: This Way to Egress)
• Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
• Dark Harvest (2023)
• Legacy (TBA)

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)

Television series

• Breaking Bad
  • Episode 4.03 – "Open House"
• Awake
  • Episode 1.01 – "Pilot"
• Hannibal
  • Episode 1.01 – "Apéritif"
  • Episode 1.03 – "Potage"
  • Episode 1.13 – "Savoureux"
  • Episode 2.11 – "Kō No Mono"
  • Episode 2.13 – "Mizumono"
• Crossbones
  • Episode 1.01 – "The Devil's Dominion"
• Powers
  • Episode 1.01 – "Pilot"
  • Episode 1.02 – "Like a Power"
• American Gods
  • Episode 1.01 – "The Bone Orchard"
  • Episode 1.02 – "The Secret of Spoons"
  • Episode 1.03 – "Head Full of Snow"
• Black Mirror
  • Episode 4.05 – "Metalhead"
  • Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
  • Episode 7.04 – "Plaything"
• Barkskins
  • Episode 1.01 "New France"
  • Episode 1.02 "The Turtle King"

References

References

1. "David Slade - My First Shoot".
2. (14 June 2010). "Press Conference: Interviews with the Cast & Crew of 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'". BloodyDisgusting.
3. (9 August 2012). "Twilight Saga: Eclipse Gets a New Editor; Muse Dropped from Soundtrack". DreadCentral.
4. (10 June 2010). "David Slade Talks Twilight Saga: Eclipse; New TV Spot "Something New"". DreadCentral.
5. (22 April 2009). "David Slade to Direct Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse". [[Summit Entertainment]].
6. 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".
7. DAVID A SLADE. (5 March 2012). "@AussieBecka Nic Roeg/Donald Cammell's "Performance".".
8. (23 July 2008). "So Funny, It's Scary: Hollywood's Top Horror Directors to Bring Original Comedy Pilots to Xbox 360 This Fall". [[Microsoft]].

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