David Fortune is a writer and director based in Atlanta, Georgia. He was named Variety’s 2025 Directors to Watch and is a recipient of the AT&T Untold Stories Award, which provided a $1 million grant to direct his feature film, Color Book. The film premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Festival and has garnered jury and audience awards at festivals, including the Austin Film Festival, Deauville American Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Denver Film Festival, and several others. In addition to these recognitions, David has also been nominated for the 2025 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Breakthrough Creative.
His short film Us was selected as a winner of the Netflix Content Creators Program, while his film Shoebox, produced through the Indeed-Hillman Grad’s Rising Voices Program, was acquired and distributed by Amazon Studios. David has participated in numerous directing fellowships such as the Netflix - Film Independent Amplifier Fellowship, Village Roadshow Emerging Talent Program, and Paramount ViewFinders Directors Program, where he shadowed two episodes of 13 Reasons Why.
David is a proud alumnus of Morehouse College’s CTEMS Program (BA) and Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television (MFA). As a writer and director, he seeks to capture universal connections within marginalized communities while shedding light on the intimate human experiences.
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