David L. Briggs

Hungry Investors (2014)
Television (Reality-TV) Lighting Designer (1 Season, 2 episodes)

Goodbye to All That (2014)
Film Gaffer When his wife unexpectedly informs him that she wants a divorce, well-meaning but oblivious husband Otto Wall finds himself thrust back into bachelorhood, where he searches for the real thing amidst a string of one night stands.

Kitchen Nightmares (2011 - 2013)
Television (Reality-TV) Gaffer/ Electrician (3 seasons)

The Discoverers (2012)
Film (Comedy) Gaffer A road movie about a dysfunctional family who embark on a Lewis and Clark re-enactment trek and discover themselves and each other in the process.

Backwards (2012)
Film (Romance and Sport) Gaffer When a fiercely competitive 30 year old rower fails to make the Olympic boat for the second time, she takes a coaching job at a school but struggles to adjust to life off the race course.

Future Weather (2012)
Film (Drama) Gaffer When her single mom runs off to California, Lauduree, a passionate environmentalist, clings to her rural home and a carbon sequestration experiment. But her grandmother Greta, a caustic nurse on the verge of moving in with her long-distance boyfriend, has other plans. Thrust into each other's lives, the two women must learn to trust each other and leap into the unknown. Written by Anonymous

North Bend (2012)
Film Cinematographer

Cafe (2011)
Film (Drama) Gaffer A good-hearted musician struggles to find a way to tell his beautiful barista coworker that he loves her, despite the fact that she is in a relationship. Meanwhile, regulars and customers at the cafe where they work have their own problems and encounters. A police officer keeps his eye on his wayward cousin, who owes money to a charismatic dealer, and a married man contemplates his relationship with a good-looking new acquaintance. However, one customer believes he is in fact the main character in a computer simulation of modern life, set in the microcosm of the cafe, all designed by a young girl. Written by Anonymous

Another Harvest Moon (2010)
Film (Drama) Grip Elderly dementia patient must decide whether to leave this world under his own conditions before he loses his dignity or give in to his loving supportive family and nursing home roommates' appeals to fight on and risk losing it.

Most Valuable Players (2010)
Film (Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Family and 1 More) Camera Operator Across the USA, high school sports are regularly lavished with funding, publicity and scholarships while theater geeks struggle to put on the school musical hoping for some attention of their own. In the sports crazy Lehigh Valley, PA, a hundred-year-old theater remedies the inequality with the Freddy Awards - an annual live television event that recognizes excellence in local high school musical theater. Illustrating that arts education encourages the same teamwork, camaraderie and confidence as sports, MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS follows three high school theater troupes on their creative journeys to the elaborate award ceremony - the "Super Bowl" of high school musical theater. Written by Anonymous

Bereavement (2010)
Film (Crime, Horror and Thriller) Company Grip In 1989, the boy Martin Bristol has congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA), a rare neural disorder, in which the patient does not feel pain, heat or cold. He is abducted by the deranged serial-killer Graham Sutter (Brett Rickaby) and brought to the Sutter Meat & Poultry, an abandoned meat-packing plant in Minersville, Pennsylvania, where Graham slaughters young women that he kidnaps. Five years later, the stubborn seventeen year-old teenager Allison Miller loses her parents and moves to the house of her uncle Jonathan Miller that is located near to the decrepit plant. Jonathan, his wife Karen and their little daughter Wendy welcome Allison, but the teenager does not give much attention to her new family. Allison likes to run alone on the road and she passes by the meat-packing plant and then she meets the mechanic William "Billy" and has a crush on him. Jonathan advises Allison to avoid running near the old factory and Billy, who is a problematic teenager. Allison ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Badmaa$h Company (2010)
Film (Comedy, Crime and Drama) Gaffer (U.S.A) Karan, Tanzing and Chandu complete their college studies and join hands with a black-marketeer, Archie, who gets them to travel to Bangkok for money-laundering purposes. En route they meet with leggy Jaipur-based Bulbul, and after the completion of this mission, the foursome decide to put their heads together to get rich quickly. Karan disappoints his father, Sajjan, by giving up on getting an MBA Degree, and the four take their success to New York where they proceed to scam businesses with considerable success; but as the money starts pouring in, so too does problems with alcohol, gambling, and bitterness between members of the group. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Blue Valentine (2010)
Film (Drama and Romance) Grip Dean Pereira and Cindy Heller Pereira are a young, working class married couple - Dean currently working as a painter, and Cindy working as a nurse in a medical clinic - with a young daughter named Frankie. Despite their relatively tender ages, they are both ravaged by the life they've eked out together and by the experiences they've had leading into their marriage. Dean, a high school drop out, comes from a broken home, where he never really had a mother figure. He never saw himself getting married or having a family despite falling in love at first sight with Cindy. He doesn't have any professional ambition beyond his current work - which he enjoys since he feels he can knock off a beer at 8 o'clock in the morning without it affecting his work - although Cindy believes he has so much more potential in life. Cindy also comes from a dysfunctional family, with her own mother and father not setting an example of a harmonious married or family life. One of her previous serious ... Written by Huggo

Night Catches Us (2010)
Film (Drama and Romance) Gaffer In 1976, complex political and emotional forces are set in motion when a young man returns to the race-torn Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age during the Black Power movement.

Kurbaan (2009)
Film (Action, Crime, Drama, Romance and 1 More) Company Grip (U.S.A) Delhi University's Professor Avantika Ahuja meets fellow professor Ehsan Khan in typical Bollywood filmy style, and both fall in love with each other. Her father, who had preferred that she marry a Hindu, reluctantly permits them to get married. They do so, and subsequently re-locate to live in the United States. They buy a house, settle in, and are welcomed by their neighbors, Hamid and Anjum. A few days later Avantika's world will be turned upside down when she finds out that their neighbors are terrorists who want to avenge the deaths of innocent Iraqi and Afghani civilians massacred by British and American forces, and that her husband is not who he claims to be. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Film (Crime, Drama and Thriller) Company Grip Clyde Shelton's family is brutally murdered. The ones responsible are caught. However, because of improper procedure, the D.A., Nick Rice only has circumstantial evidence. So he decides to get one of them to testify against the other. When Shelton learns of this, he is not happy. Ten years later, the one who was convicted is being executed but something goes wrong; his execution goes awry and he suffers. They learn that someone tampered with the machine. And the other one is found dead, killed in a gruesome manner. Rice suspects Shelton, so he has him picked up. At first, Shelton agrees to a plea agreement with Rice but changes his mind. It appears that Shelton is not done, it appears he blames the whole system and is declaring war on it going after everyone involved with his family's case. So Rice has to stop him but Shelton is way ahead of him. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com

The Nail: The Story of Joey Nardone (2009)
Film (Drama) Best Boy Grip After spending 8 years in prison for an unfortunate accident, heavy-weight boxer Joey Nardone returns to a solitary life in Philadelphia. His time in prison and the opportunity to reflect has changed him. Feeling like a stranger in his own neighborhood and searching for some semblance of normalcy, he takes a job at the boxing gym where he used to work-out. Joey finds comfort in the familiarity of his old friends. But his buddies notice a change in Joey Nardone. Where is the spark and zest for life, once inherent in their pal Joey? Joey, struggling to find meaning in life, meets a 14 yr. old Puerto Rican kid named Jesus, who is repeatedly beaten up by the neighborhood bully. The kid, not used to kindness from strangers, has no time for Joey. Life is hard for Jesus, a scrawny boy, who is not only dealing with his peers picking on him at school, but he also has an alcoholic, abusive father to contend with at home. The chemistry between these two unlikely friends; Joey, an over-the-hill ... Written by James Quattrochi

Dare (2009)
Film (Drama and Romance) Best Boy Grip It's the final semester before graduating from high school, and aspiring actress and good girl Alexa (Emmy Rossum), her outcast gay best friend Ben (Ashley Springer), and loner bad boy Johnny (Zach Gilford), go outside their comfort zones, and throw caution to the wind as they venture into unfamiliar young adult sexual grounds. A bumpy ride of high emotion, betrayal, heartbreak, and sexual experimentation. Written by trivwhiz

Bottleworld (2009)
Film (Comedy) Electrician Bottleworld is an ensemble comedy that revolves around a liquor store of the same name. It begins as the story of Wilson, a new employee at Bottleworld, who enters this seemingly utopian environment and is welcomed by his co-workers, especially the store's manager, Murray. When Murray's daughter, Chrissy, visits for the holidays, Wilson quickly falls in love with her. Wilson is very happy with his new life but when he overhears Carl, an angry employee, plan to terrorize the store on a holiday, he becomes obsessed with the threat. Wilson warns Chrissy and Murray, who downplay Carl's threat but are unable to convince Wilson to do the same. Wilson's attention to a threat that others do not perceive intensifies and his relationship with Chrissy stalls. As holidays pass without incident, Wilson's priorities begin to appear misplaced. Wilson allows his relationship with Chrissy and Murray to hinge on his distrust of Carl. It distorts the entire holiday season and is the challenge Wilson ... Written by Anonymous

New York (2009)
Film (Crime, Drama, Romance and Thriller) Gaffer After being apprehended, detained, humiliated, and denied legal counsel by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Omar Ehzaz, originally from Delhi's Lajpatnagar, relates to the investigator, Roshan, assigned to his case, how he arrived in New York during 1999; his friendship with Samir Shaikh and Student Counselor, Maya; the events of September 11, 2001; the subsequent paranoia, fear, racial profiling, generated and aggravated by the tyrannical right-winged regime of George W. Bush, and how he came to be in possession of several Ak47s and plastic explosives that were confiscated from his taxi-cab. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Happy Birthday, Harris Malden (2008)
Film (Comedy) Grip It's early July in Philadelphia. Childhood trauma has its hold on Harris Malden: he has no facial hair, so to compensate, he draws a mustache or beard on his face every morning, and he won't leave his neighborhood. His younger brother, Melvin, his best friend Paul, who lives next door, Paul's grandmother, and the entire neighborhood play along. But at the party for his 25th birthday, Paul's new girlfriend Susan points out to Harris that his mustache is a fake. This causes a crisis in Harris and threatens the friendship with Paul. Meanwhile, Melvin is trying to break into TV commercials. Hair, honesty, growing up, and moving on challenge each character and each relationship. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

Explicit Ills (2008)
Film (Drama) Grip/ Electric A drama of four interconnecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia.

The Book of Caleb (2008)
Film (Comedy) Grip/ Electric Twenty-something Caleb Callahan, a crusader without a cause, ventures back to his homeland of suburbia to live with his parents after unexpectedly dropping out of college in his final year. Once there he quickly reunites with his childhood companions Montag, the mastermind serial prankster, and Swank, his trusty sidekick. After one of their pranks reaps unexpected consequences, Caleb is forced to be the hero Montag always knew he could be, ultimately saving his friends and giving his life direction and meaning. Written by Anonymous

Montclair (2007)
Film (Drama) Grip Jay and Amy have a good life. A beautiful home, an adorable son, interesting, devoted friends and very different ideas of what the next steps in their life together should be. Their dearest friend and the neighborhood recluse is Vaclav. Through a Homeric battle with two neighborhood punks involving eggs, dog shit and petty theft, he comes to terms with an old tragedy and faces the shadow of what could have been. Suzanne, a friend of Amy's and Joel, her venture-capitalist husband, have a baby on the way, but are struggling with his workaholic attitude and her need for affirmation and security. Bruce is reeling in the wake of a nasty divorce. But with some tough love, and a chocolate chip cookie from his landlady, he begins to deal with the fear of starting over. And Matt, Jay's radio partner is a popular former Big League pitcher, known to his fans as "The Giantkiller". He coasts along with a mellow attitude, barely tolerating the rat race around him. As the friends all cope with the ... Written by Anonymous

Shotgun Stories (2007)
Film (Drama and Thriller) Grip/ Electric Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family. Written by Jeff Nichols

Death by Association (2003)
Film (Action, Crime and Drama) Gaffer Set in the city of brotherly love, small time thugs and childhood friends begin a journey of redemption and regret. While working for crime underboss Frank Diablo, Vince and Paul question the life and death world they live in. Bobby on the other hand will do whatever it takes to succeed. As a test of loyalty, Frank gives Bobby a task that will change the three friends forever. This life changing event puts Vince and Bobby at odds. When Vince finds out that an innocent woman named Lori Saks has been "Marked". Vince makes a life changing decision to leave the business and protect Lori from his former employer. Now on the run, Vince and Lori race through the city of Philadelphia while being pursued by Frank and his gang of associates, dirty cops and the FBI. Written by A.L. Fletcher

West River Drive (2002)
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