David E. Tolchinsky

David E. Tolchinsky is a filmmaker and Dean of The Media School at Indiana University Bloomington. Formerly, he was a Northwestern University professor of Radio/Television/Film with an expertise in screenwriting. He co-founded and directed NU’s MFA in Writing for Screen+Stage program, was Chair of RTVF for 11 years, and co-founded and directed NU’s Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab for the Promotion of Mental Health via Cinematic Arts. His work, which spans comedy and darker fare, often involves trauma, memory, and mental illness. His short Cassandra, available on Alter, Apple, Googleplay, and Amazon, has won over 14 awards internationally and is currently being developed into a feature. He produced and scored the NYTimes Op-Doc Contaminated Memories, directed by Debra Tolchinsky, produced Creature Companion, directed by Melika Bass, and recently produced Shudder/AMC’s feature Night’s End, directed by Jennifer Reeder. He’s written screenplays for various Hollywood studios and has written and directed plays performed in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Yale (BA) and the USC School of Cinematic Arts (MFA).