A Really Shitty Date A Really Shitty Date
Featured Film

Director, Cinematographer & Writer — Winner, Best Overall Film & Best Directed Film, 2025 LI72 Film Festival.

Live Action

Shorts & Music Video
Oversaw
Director, Writer
Oversaw
2026 · Kurosawa Unit
A Dish Served Cold
Director, Writer
A Dish Served Cold
2026 · Hitchcock Unit
Chasing
Lighting Director, VFX
Chasing
2026 · Music Video

Animation & VFX

Five Years of Blender
Exposure
Writer, Animator
Exposure
2025 · Best Animated Film Nominee
Target Down
Writer, Animator
Target Down
2025
The Scavenger
Animator
The Scavenger
2024
Solar Eclipse Animation
Animator
Solar Eclipse Animation
2025
Echo Location
Animator
Echo Location
2025
Demogorgon Surprise
Animator
Demogorgon Surprise
2025
Pumpkin Carving
Animator
Pumpkin Carving
2022
Time Traveling Fighter Jet
Animator
Time Traveling Fighter Jet
2022
Lava Lamp
Animator
Lava Lamp
2022
Basketball Lego Animation
Animator
Basketball Lego Animation
2022
My First Animation
Animator
My First Animation
2021

About David

David Glorioso

I made my first films five years before I ever stood on a real set. They were built in Blender, out of necessity more than choice: without a budget or a crew, animation was the only place I could build the sets and camera setups I wanted to shoot. That's where I first learned to compose a frame, plan a camera move, and light a scene. The instinct to work it out before I shoot it hasn't left me since.

Last summer, that groundwork finally reached an actual set. I worked as camera utility on Leap Year, under director Quinn Moore and his brother, DP Cameron Moore, retrieving and setting up camera and lighting equipment for the crew. I spent the rest of the summer in a filmmaking program at Five Towns College.

This summer asked more of me. SOCAPA's Advanced Filmmaking Intensive put me behind the camera for seven productions in three weeks: I directed two of the shorts myself and crewed on the rest. Two more productions have run alongside it, both still shooting. I'm Director of Photography, handling lighting, editing, and sound, on a short Cate McLees wrote and directed. I'm also Assistant Camera, with a brief turn as a background extra, on the Moore brothers' next feature, the same two who first brought me onto Leap Year.

Of everything I've made, I'm proudest of A Really Shitty Date, a short I wrote and directed myself. It won Best Overall Film and Best Directed Film at the 2025 LI72 Film Festival.

None of it began with a camera. Theater came first, including playing Albus Severus Potter in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as a freshman, and it's still where I learned to think about blocking, pacing, and performance. I just practice it from behind the camera now, rather than in front of it.

Honors & Awards

Best Overall Film & Best Directed Film — 2025 LI72 Film Festival (A Really Shitty Date)
Nominated, Best Animated Film — Long Island Media Arts Show, 2025 (Exposure)
Nominated, Best Featured Actor — Huntington Hunting-Tony Awards (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Education

Half Hollow Hills High School West — NYS Regents Diploma with Advanced Designation in Visual Arts with Honors, Expected 2028
SOCAPA Advanced Filmmaking Intensive — Cinematography & Film/Video Production, 2026
Five Towns College — Introduction to Filmmaking, Summer 2025
From Stage To Screen Performing Arts Academy — Summer Film Intensive, 2023

Skills

Cinematography Lighting Blender · Animation & Previs After Effects Premiere Pro

Full credit history and resume available on LinkedIn ↗ and IMDb ↗.