Dave Wilson is an award winning commercial, television and feature film director. He made his feature directorial debut in 2020 with BLOODSHOT, based on Valiant Comic’s Scifi Action series for Sony with Original Film producing, and Vin Diesel starring. Prior to that he directed the pilot episode, SONNIE’S EDGE, for the Netflix series LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS created and executive produced by David Fincher & Tim Miller, as well as overseeing the direction across multiple shorts in the series for BLUR

 

Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. Dropping out of college, disillusioned, as filmmaking, visual effects and interactive entertainment apparently didn’t fit the criteria for a viable career to guidance counselors in the early nineties — he found fellow fugitive filmmaker Sharlto Copley and they started a visual effects company together.

 

Dave quickly rose to the top of his field, creating a name for himself as an innovator in the world of animation and visual effects.  Word soon traveled to the US and he was recruited by Tim Miller, Dir. DEADPOOL, to move to BLUR STUDIO in Venice, CA — dormitory of the disaffected  — where Dave would eventually serve as Creative Director.

 

A highly visual artist, Dave’s stunning aesthetic is instantly recognizable across the dozens of commercials and short form pieces for various marketing campaigns over the last decade, working repeatedly with top brands like Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, LucasFilm on titles like Star Wars, Halo, The Division, Elder Scrolls, Titanfall and Mass Effect.