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The Brooklyn Vitagraph Company was founded by filmmaker David Teague to create independent films of all kinds. Brooklyn Vitagraph also produces promotional and educational films, music videos, and web video with an emphasis on clients working in the arts.

David Teague Bio:teaguecamera

David recently directed the documentary “Intifada NYC” which is playing festivals internationally and will be seen on television across the world in 2010. He edited Cynthia Wade’s “Freeheld,” which won the 2008 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short Subject and the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. He recently completed editing and shooting Wade’s new film “Born Sweet” which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Festival, winning an Honorable Mention. He recently completed editing Jennifer Redfearn’s documentary on climate change refugees “Sun Come Up“. His documentary directing work also includes the forthcoming ”Our House”, co-directed with Greg King, which will hit festivals in Spring 2010. David directed, shot, and edited the Super 8 feature Love Suicides based on a classic Japanese bunraku play which has played underground and Super 8 festivals worldwide. For television, he has edited spots for Sesame Street and shot an episode of Logo’s series “Be Real“. David has also shot and edited many music videos with Flip Productions for artists such as David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, Roseanne Cash, and Dolly Parton. His camera and editing work in numerous films has screened at Cannes, the Berlinale, and the Tribeca Film Festival, among many others. He has also directed two plays with the Coffey Street Playhouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn. In 2001, he founded Flicker NYC, a festival of new Super 8mm films which currently presents two shows a year at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Along with having taught cinematography and editing at Downtown Community Television, the New School, Brooklyn College and Long Island University, he is the author of two best-selling guides to film editing with Final Cut Pro. David lives in Brooklyn, NY, with Annie Wedekind and their son Henry Wedekind, who is two.