David Percy
Joan Collins presents an award to David Percy |
David S Percy FRSA, ARPS is an award-winning film & TV producer and pioneer in the use of leading edge audiovisual technologies. Percy has extensive experience in managing teams of people and running a number of communications businesses.
For over 30 years David Percy has been a professional communicator in the world of commerce, working with leading multinational corporations – whilst at the same time researching alternative energy solutions.
Born and educated in London, Percy has published articles, books, DVDs and videos on developing business skills; investigating new technologies for future manned space travel; alternative propulsion systems, and gravity research. He has advised and participated in many radio and TV documentary programs on both sides of the Atlantic.
A specialist in business-to-business productions, David Percy produced the world's first Annual Report on Video for the Emhart Corporation in 1982. (At the time Emhart operated in over a hundred countries with a worldwide work force of 30,000 employees.)
Nominated by the British Industrial and Scientific Film Association (forerunner of the IVCA) as Cameraman of the Year in 1986, he has since won numerous awards at film/video festivals in Chicago, New York, London and Beijing for TV productions in the area of Corporate Communications and Business Training.
Percy has produced courses on Mind Mapping® and how to use the human brain more effectively featuring internationally-acclaimed brain expert Tony Buzan. The BBC commissioned his training course Mindpower for Business. He has also produced a popular Mind Mapping® course for students: Get Ahead and Ace your Exams.
David Percy photographing Discomania
Later to become a pioneer in graphics and computer animation, Percy started photography at the age of ten and made his first movie on standard 8mm when he was twelve.
In 1975 he was commissioned to photograph Hampstead Garden Suburb a documentary (for European Architectural Heritage Year) detailing the suburb's architecture and history, narrated by Donald Sinden.
He photographed one of the first British 35mm anamorphic widescreen shorts with Dolby® Stereo sound, and his first theatrical movie The Anna Contract ran continuously in London's West End for three months in the 1970s. His theatrical credits also include Knights Electric and Discomania (1980).
Percy created the missile tracking Visual Effects sequences for Ira Curtis-Coleman (video supervisor) in the John Landis film Spies Like Us (1985).
Several of his protégés have become very successful in the feature film industry, especially Lighting Cameraman John Gibson and Director of Photography Brandon Apps. (The Australian Cinematographers Society honoured Brandon Apps at its annual awards in 2004.)
A trailblazer in computer animation and videowall design in the 1980s, Percy and his team produced one of the first fully interactive multimedia resources*. He has directed numerous films and video productions for corporate clients – ranging from the UK Ministry of Defence, to automobile manufacturers in Europe including Toyota and General Motors. Percy's broadcast TV cinematography credits include The Ravenswood Experience and The Blue Hai (both ITV).
In the digital realm, Percy designed and produced the Annual report for The REDRESS Trust which was awarded First Prize in its category in the 2008 Charities Aid Foundation Online Accounts Awards.
A long standing Associate of the Royal Photographic Society, Percy has just completed editing Three to Tango (2009) staring Toyah Willcox with Shirley Anne Field – a feature film shot on location in London.
He is currently working on a further book with Mary Bennett and is also preparing Belsize Story a documentary on the history, architecture and people of Belsize Park, London.
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