P. David Ebersole (born March 16, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is
an American television director and independent filmmaker. He began
his film career as a child actor, playing the lead in the musical
Junior High School (1978), which also starred Paula Abdul.Stepping
behind the camera, as an undergraduate he won Best Film and Best
Director at NYU for his first effort "Lover Man" (1986), and earned
his MFA winning AFI's Franklin J. Schaffner award for best film/best
director for his student thesis project, "Death in Venice, CA" (1994).
He directed the boxing film "Straight Right" (2000) that premiered on
Sundance Channel, and was a director on two telenovelas for Fox
Television airing on My Network TV, Desire (2006) and Wicked Wicked
Games (2007) starring Tatum O'Neal.He was co-producer of the HBO
original film, "Stranger Inside" (2001) and the independent film "The
New Women" (2001) starring Mary Woronov. He directed and edited his
first documentary "Hit So Hard" about drummer Patty Schemel of the
seminal grunge band Hole (band), which had its world premiere at SXSW
2011 and was released theatrically in 2012. Along with his husband and
business partner Todd Hughes, he is Executive Producer of Room 237, a
subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the
hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film "The Shining."Ebersole
is writer/director and Executive Producer of Dear Mom, Love Cher, a
documentary about Georgia Holt, the mother of international superstar
Cher. Independently produced by The Ebersole Hughes Company and APIS
Productions, it premiered on Lifetime May 6, 2013.
an American television director and independent filmmaker. He began
his film career as a child actor, playing the lead in the musical
Junior High School (1978), which also starred Paula Abdul.Stepping
behind the camera, as an undergraduate he won Best Film and Best
Director at NYU for his first effort "Lover Man" (1986), and earned
his MFA winning AFI's Franklin J. Schaffner award for best film/best
director for his student thesis project, "Death in Venice, CA" (1994).
He directed the boxing film "Straight Right" (2000) that premiered on
Sundance Channel, and was a director on two telenovelas for Fox
Television airing on My Network TV, Desire (2006) and Wicked Wicked
Games (2007) starring Tatum O'Neal.He was co-producer of the HBO
original film, "Stranger Inside" (2001) and the independent film "The
New Women" (2001) starring Mary Woronov. He directed and edited his
first documentary "Hit So Hard" about drummer Patty Schemel of the
seminal grunge band Hole (band), which had its world premiere at SXSW
2011 and was released theatrically in 2012. Along with his husband and
business partner Todd Hughes, he is Executive Producer of Room 237, a
subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the
hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film "The Shining."Ebersole
is writer/director and Executive Producer of Dear Mom, Love Cher, a
documentary about Georgia Holt, the mother of international superstar
Cher. Independently produced by The Ebersole Hughes Company and APIS
Productions, it premiered on Lifetime May 6, 2013.
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