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 an owner director of film and video production companies. He is a well-established professional communicator in the world of commerce, working regularly with leading multinational corporations. During the last 40 years Percy has developed his expertise in photography and has spent many years simultaneously researching alternative energy solutions.

Born and educated in London, Percy has published articles, books, DVDs and videos on developing business skills; investigating space exploration; new technologies for future manned space travel; alternative propulsion systems, and gravity research. He has advised and has 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 won numerous awards for TV productions in the area of Corporate Communications and Business Training. Percy has received major awards from film/video festivals in Chicago, New York, London and Beijing.

Percy has produced video courses on Mind Mapping® and how to use the human brain more effectively featuring internationally acclaimed brain expert Tony Buzan. The BBC distributes his production Mindpower for Business. Percy has also produced a popular Mind Mapping® video course for students: Get Ahead and Ace your Exams.

Later to become a pioneer in graphics and computer animation, David Percy started photography at the age of ten and made his first movie on standard 8mm film when he was twelve. He produced one of the first British 35mm anamorphic widescreen short movies 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.

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 ACS (Australian Cinematography Society) honoured Brandon Apps at the annual awards in 2004 and named the feature film section after him.

A trailblazer in computer animation and videowall design in the 1980s, Percy and his team produced one of the first fully interactive multimedia resources in the late 80s. The data on all products of the DOW Chemical Company were assembled onto laser discs with graphics and animation to become the sole source of information for visitors to DOW at K89 – a prestigious international plastics exhibition held in Germany. He has directed numerous films and video productions for clients ranging from the UK Ministry of Defence, to automobile manufacturers in Europe including Toyota and General Motors.

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.

An Associate of the Royal Photographic Society, David Percy is Vice President of the Finchley Cinévideo Society, one of the oldest film societies in the world – founded in London, England in 1930.

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