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.