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David Maquiling, B.F.A.

Academic and Artistic Director, SCA Summer Program

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David Maquiling is the Academic and Artistic Director of the SCA Summer Program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he oversees more than 30 classes exploring all aspects of the art, craft, and business of film and television creation. He is also a faculty member at SCA and is the Lead Faculty for USC’s SCA NAI Filmmaking Workshop for underrepresented high school students and is the Co-Founder and Lead Faculty of the USC Warner Bros. Filmmaking Workshop. David was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to teach film in the  Philippines, is the Co-Founder of the NewFilmmakers screening series at the Anthology Film Archives in NY, was the Festival Co-Director of the 25th Annual New York Asian International Film Festival, and served as the Head of the Feature Jury for the 22nd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, where he serves on the Asian American Committee.

A magna cum laude graduate of New York University’s Tisch  School of the Arts, David made his feature film debut as the Writer/Director of Too Much Sleep, for which he won an Independent Spirit Award nomination, was featured in Variety’s annual “Someone to Watch” article, and earned the IFP Project Involve Fellowship. A modern adaptation of a classic Filipino folk story, Too Much Sleep had its World Premiere at the South By Southwest Film Festival, screened at more than 25 international festivals, and earned rave reviews when it was distributed by The Shooting Gallery. Too Much Sleep recently celebrated its 25th anniversary with a beautiful 4K restoration overseen by distributor Whole Grain Pictures and is now available on a Special Edition Blu-Ray  and on streaming platforms.