David Parks

Director - Writer - Filmmaker

P.O. Box 5886 Austin, TX 78763 Cell 512-203-4238
Works in Development - Feature Films
Sgt. Stance - 9th U.S. Cavalry (Buffalo Solider)
Black Seminole U.S. Indian Scouts 9th U.S. Cavalry
2005/15

Educational Film Lectures

Wayne St Univ, Michigan Univ Hanover, Wichita St Univ, Oklahoma Univ, Black Press Wash.
DC, UT - Odessa, Dallas Museum Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, Austin Community College,
UT Photography School, Gordon Parks Museum Ft Scott Kansas,

1989
1987
1986
1986
1984
1984

Documentaries / Feature Films - Director, Austin/San Antonio, TX; New York City
Eye of The Tiger, Promotional DVD - Live Camera Shoot. Odessa, TX
His Beauty For My Ashes - Feature Length, Austin TX
If I Could Only Fly, The Story of Blaze Foley - Feature Length, Austin TX
Ebbets Hailey, Cowboy Historian - 1 hr Documentary, Midland TX
Buffalo Soliders, 9th Cavalry - In House Studio Production, Paragon Cable. San Antonio
Texas Artists Pilot Projects - Martin Kramer & Ralph White - Promotional Videos, Austin TX
Jose Antonio Navarro House -1 hr Documentary, Paragon Cable
African Art and Repression 1 hr Documentary University of Texas at Austin, TX
Senator Barbara Jordan and Rabbi Kerry Baker Dialogue - LBJ School of Public Affairs
University of Texas at Austin, TX
Taniguchi - A Bridge Between Cultures 1 hr Documentary
Austin American-Statesman - Public Relations & Educational Documentary
Prince Charles - A Texas Celebration 1 hr Documentary Texas Capital Committee
Umlauf Sculpture Garden Dedication 1 hr Documentar, Umlauf Productions
Old Stone Ranch Dedication, 1 hr Documentary. Albany, TX
Fort Griffin Fandangle - 1 hr Documentary. State of Texas Sesquicentennial Committee

1986
1986
1978
1978

Commercials Austin, TX
The Legend Belt buckles - Farm Aid II Concert by Willie Nelson. 60 second (2) Commercials
Fort Griffin Fandangle - Texas Sesquicentennial Committee. 30 second Commercial
Toyota - Two 30 second commercial. Aired on Channel 4 KTVV-TV, Austin, TX
Cat Mountain - Still Photography. 30 Second Commercial. Mayfield Enterprises

1984
1976
1974
1973
1973
1973
1972
1971

Film Production Experiences - New York, Hollywood, Los Angeles

Assistant Director, Special Photographer
Ripleys Believe It Or Not, NASA Episode - Houston TX
Leadbelly - Paramount Pictures
Aaron Loves Angela - Columbia Pictures
Superfly - Warner Brothers, New York
Shaft - MGM Production, New York
Changing Times - National Education Television. Detroit Michigan
The Revolutionary - United Artists. London England
The Great White Hope - 20th Century Fox. Hollywood

1978
1974
1974
1974
1972
1972
1970
1969
1969
1968
1968

Writing Photography, Photo Journalism - New York

Cat Mountain - Still Photography. Mayfield Enterprises, Austin, TX
Nate Archibald - Kansas City Star Magazine, Cover Story
The Russians Are Coming - Action Magazine, DGA, New York
On Our Way - Knopf Books, Random House
Stevie Wonder, US Tour Pubic Relations & Promotions
Problems with Photography - Time/Life Books, Photography Series
Jamaica - Tuesday Magazine, Cover Story
Dizzy Gillespie - Public Relations & Promotions
Patrick Moynihan - Tuesday Magazine, Cover Story
G.I. Dairy - Harper & Row, Publishers
Vietnam Diaries LOOK Magazine

1965/67

Military Experience
U.S. Army Armored Cavalry, Vietnam - Veteran, 2 Purple Hearts

1968
1963/64

Education
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Associate Degree, Film and Photography
Ricker College, Houlton, Maine Liberal Arts

1961/63
1957/61

Higgins Classical Institute, Charleston, Maine High School Diploma

Storm King Preparatory School, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY

2004/06
2003
2001/02
2000/01
1995
1992/95
1993/94
1993
1992