Discipline: Film/Video

P. David Ebersole

Discipline: Film/Video
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1991

P. David Ebersole 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. 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, 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.

Studios

Sorosis

P. David Ebersole worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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