David Cairns

Edinburgh College of Art

Education

• Graduated from Edinburgh College of Art (1991).

Professional Experience / Research

• Teaching Fellow, School of Design.

• Filmmaker and critic.

• Directed multi-award-winning short film Cry for Bobo (2001).

• Won Royal Television Society Award for Best Regional Programme; received 20+ festival awards.

• Transitioned into film criticism: founder of Shadowplay blog.

• Contributions to Sight and Sound, The Believer, and others.

Film Projects

• Co-created feature documentary on Bernard Natan with filmmaker Paul Duane (Natan, 2013), screened internationally (Telluride, Lyon Lumiere, Dublin, Edinburgh).

• Screenwriter: horror feature Cell 6 (filmed as Let Us Prey).

• Other fiction projects under development at major studios.