BIOGRAPHIE
Director/Cinematographer/Editor David Helfer Wells brings three decades of experience making still images and, more recently, documentary films for publications and websites. One editor described him as a “...specialist in intercultural communication and visual narratives that excel in their creative mastery of light, shadow and sound, stills and video." His still imagery has appeared in Fortune, Life, National Geographic, Newsweek, The New York Times, Time and other magazines. He received funding for past projects from the MacArthur Foundation's Program of Research and Writing on International Peace and Cooperation, the Fulbright Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. The Philadelphia Inquirer nominated his work on the pesticide poisoning of California farm workers for a Pulitzer Prize. His short documentary films have been juried into festivals in Ankara, Bangalore, Jaipur, Lahore, Lisbon, Mumbai, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, Providence, Rome, Sacramento and San Francisco.
FILMOGRAPHIE
- 2025 Morphic Camera
- 2025 Shucking Tradition Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Editing, Camera
- 2023 Helfer and Speed Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Sound designer, Editing, Camera
- 2022 Quahoggers: Rhode Island’s iconic shellfishermen Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Sound designer, Editing, Camera, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing
- 2022 Auto, Auto, Auto Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Editing, Camera, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing
- 2022 Varanasi Time Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Sound designer, Editing, Camera, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing