David Chester

Shining Hour Entertainment
Director, Producer, Screenwriter and Songwriter

Tokyo, Japan

Member Since:
March 2014

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About David

David Chester is an American screenwriter and prize-winning short filmmaker based in Tokyo. He writes female-driven dramas focusing on dysfunctional families. To date, he has written eight commissioned features (two in production, six produced, streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Lifetime). His original screenplays BIG SISTER and TILLIE have been multi-finalists in screenwriting competitions and his short “The Lesson” won the Tokyo Rainbow Reel “Grand Prix” and Torino GLBT Film Festival “Best Short Film.” David’s writing has benefitted greatly fromCorey Mandell's screenwriting courses, Roadmap Writers’ Top Tier group and mentoring by writer/producer Ellen Sandler (“Everybody Loves Raymond”).

Unique traits: -Have extensive professional background in the music business. -Am also a professional pianist and songwriter. -Have a deep understanding of Japanese culture (have lived in Tokyo for over two decades).

Gender:
Male

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Poster to promote TILLIE, our coming-of-age period drama.

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TILLIE Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama In 1890s Pennsylvania Dutch Country, an intellectually gifted farm girl rebels against her tyrannical father and risks her life to get an education to follow in the footsteps of her beloved teacher.
BIG SISTER Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama A successful woman abandons her career to save her destitute younger sister, but her efforts backfire and she becomes the one who needs to be saved.
PRINCESS. IN REVERSE. Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy When a pampered Jewish American Princess moves to Japan with her adventure-loving new husband in the 1990s, she must learn to adapt to two foreign concepts: living abroad… and marriage.