David Hands

David Hands began his career as a professional photographer in 1989 and in 1991 he joined Lumiere Services in Cyprus and worked as a Director of Photography for TV commercials.

In 1993, he moved into news and documentaries as a cameraman/editor, firstly working for ABC News (US) during the former Yugoslavia war, before moving to Kenya, where he worked for four years cov-ering major news stories and documentaries in East and Central Africa, mostly for the BBC and Swiss TV. After a short time in Australia, where he filmed his first short movie on film, he moved to Jerusalem, where he worked for Dutch and German TV as a cameraman, editor and producer. In 2003, he moved back to Cyprus and became a partner at Crewhouse Media, a film and video production house special-ising in documentaries, news production and short fiction films. He has worked on a number of interna-tional documentaries in Cyprus, Israel, Egypt, Sweden, Iceland, Greece, the UK and Chile. In 2015, his short film “Out of Sight”, co-directed by Christina Georgiou, won the 1st price at the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus.

Aside from his everyday projects as a film-maker, David also leads training workshops for Media pro-fessionals, school teachers, as well as film courses for children and he is regular training consultant for Thomson Foundation. He is a board member of the International Children’s Film Festival of Cyprus and the Artistic Director of the Cyprus Film Days Festival – Children’s section, supported by the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture. He is a member of the European Documentary Network and the Directors Guild of Cyprus. He holds a Master’s Degree (Distinction) in Film and Video Production from Cambridge School of Art in the UK.