“beautiful, moving and painful… what a remarkable short film”
Neil gaiman
LATEST NEWS: David has just won the Best Director Award at the 18th Accordi@DISACCORDI Film Festival in Naples, for his most recent film "Mousie", which was executive produced by Sir Derek Jacobi, and recently described as "a fantastic piece of art" by double Oscar-winner Emma Thompson. Since the film premiered in Berlin in 2019, it has been selected for more than 45 festivals across the globe - including Miami Jewish Film Festival, Dublin, New York, Spello and Dances With Films in LA - and recently won Best Film and the Audience Award at the Punto di Vista Festival in Sardinia, the Storia in Corto Festival and the MyART Film Festival. Just prior to that, Mousie won the Best Film and Best Cinematography at CortiSonanti; and both the Best Foreign Film and Best Actress Prizes at Social Film Festival ArTelesia. Mousie has now won 25 international awards - including ten Best Film titles - and a further ten nominations.
Check out Mousie page for trailer, reviews and awards. To view the complete film, please contact David here.
David began his career as the Second Unit Director on the BBC film Happy Birthday Shakespeare and his first film drama short The Goodbye Plane - starring Edward Hardwicke and Dudley Sutton - was reviewed by Derek Malcolm for The Guardian as “a very beautiful film – very, very nicely directed”. The film was long-listed for the Academy Award for Live action Short in 2004.
Alongside episodes for hit American series such as Locked Up Abroad and Paranormal Witness, David has directed TV films My Eternal Contract and Convenant of Hate featuring stories of cult abuse - the latter winning the CSC Award for Best Cinematography 2014. He has also directed the BBC’s prime-time Casualty and written and directed acclaimed dramatizations of The Great Train Robbery ("Absolutely compelling" London Evening Standard) and The Assassination of JFK ("A momentous story, crisply told..." London Evening Standard; Pick of the Week, Daily Telegraph; Pick of the Day in The Guardian, The Daily Express and The TV Times). David also made TV feature documentary Trial of the Knights Templar and was recently lead writer and director on Race For The White House for CNN and Netflix. David has written the feature screenplays The Long Carry and Survival, the latter now in development.
RECENT PRESS LINKS
“Derek Jacobi boards Mousie as Executive Producer”
“It’s a beautifully crafted film”
“Without art, we are in darkness”
Interview in The Boar Magazine
“David Bartlett talks about his amazing film Mousie”
Tom Hand podcast at VideoBlogg
“Compassion is key”
Rewriting Hollywood at MOVIKARMA
“There’s always hope hiding in the corners of the worst tragedies…”
“In this interview, Bartlett talks about some of the major themes of the film, what art means in the face of tyranny…”
“A beautiful and memorable short film…”
“Extraordinary on an emotional level”
“Exceptional”
“A Deceptively Dark Film”
“David Bartlett’s Mousie uses art as a weapon of hope”
FILM AND TELEVISION BUSINESS review
“David Bartlett’s MOUSIE shares a story of a 7-year-old Roma girl…”
CLICK THROUGH TO EXAMPLES OF DAVID’s WORK
MOUSIE Kewhaven Pictures / Smart Films
THE GOODBYE PLANE Kewhaven Pictures
MEXICAN BORDER BUST
CASUALTY
MY ETERNAL CONTRACT
COVENANT OF HATE
SUZY DOLL (horror)
THE HASIDIC KING OF COKE
WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER (horror)
SON OF SADDAM
RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE