David Yorke

I’m a multi-award-winning writer/director specialising in dark drama, comedy and horror. I have over 15 years of experience in short films, music videos and broadcast television and I'm also a directors UK and BAFTA Connects member.

My films have gained great success and have been selected at many festivals from around the world including BIFA, Bafta and Oscar qualifying festivals. I have also won many awards including ‘Best Film’ and ‘Best Director’ for my films WE, SAFEKEEPING, EJECT, CLOUDS and ERIC. My work has also been featured on David Reviews, Shots, 1.4, Directors Notes, Omeleto and Film Shortage.

My new short film 'Eric' had an amazing screening at Frightfest and Heyuguys even featured it as one of the best shorts of the fest - https://www.heyuguys.com/the-best-shorts-from-arrow-video-frightfest-2022/ and it also won best horror at Performance short film competition.

In 2022 I got shortlisted out of 600 directors to pitch on the channel 4 series On the Edge https://careers.channel4.com/4skills/talent-schemes/4stories. After seeing my films Eject and Eric, 20th Century Studios and Disney invited me to pitch for their bite size horror scheme https://www.hulu.com/series/bite-size-halloween-2b6c50a7-535b-4a37-9bf5-e075ab26a68b . I also recently got selected on the New Blood scheme where I pitched my feature script 'Crave' to some amazing mentors - https://cloutcom.co.uk/new-blood-horror-initiative-selects-fresh-class-of-eight-projects/.