Biography

David Novack directed, wrote, and produced the award-winning documentary film All Static & Noise (2023) about the contemporary Uyghur genocide in China. Prior to this, he made Finding Babel (2016, Special Jury Prize, Moscow Jewish Film Festival), about executed Soviet writer Isaac Babel, and Burning The Future: Coal in America (2008, IDA Pare Lorentz Award for social documentary, Best In-Depth Television Reporting from the Society of Environmental Journalists) about rights activists in West Virginia. David also produced Kimjongilia (2009, Sundance, Best Human Rights Documentary/One World Brussels FilmFest) about North Korean labor camps.

David has enjoyed an award-winning career in sound design and re-recording mixing for dozens of films. Highlights include Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine, Larry Clark's Kids, and Whit Stillman's Last Days of Disco. In live theater, David designed sound for an international opera by Roger Waters (Ça Ira), sound/projections for the Papp Theater's presentation of Death of a Salesman in Yiddish, and most recently sound for a science-in-art international exhibition, Space Messengers, in Portugal.
- IMDb mini biography by: David Novack